Don’t miss one, I want to hear it all.
At this point, it’s not the communities, it’s the engagement.
Bingo.
All the niche communities exist it’s just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end. I actually think that the existence of many of the same communities on different instances is the main hurdle here. Drawback of the concept of the fediverse I suppose but it does make the experience on Lemmy much poorer in that regard.
If there is no engagement there is no community. It is just a place.
just that nobody comments or posts anything for months on end
I post regularly in some magazines, yet nobody reply or interact
Same here. It’s content about a thing that I want to see. Even if I get little to no engagement, hopefully whoever stumbles upon it will be somewhat entertained.
This is a double edged sword. If we had enough people that the smaller communities filled out the main communities would be overridden with people instead of the small community feel we have now everywhere you go.
I’ll take 1 10,000 user community over 10,000 1 user communities.
Redundancy is sometimes redundant.
What’s the draw of having such a small community though? And why do you think that main communities would be overriden? Honest questions here I don’t quite understand what you are concerned about. I personally think that it’s the main problem with the fediverse right now, it’s only flavorless general posts and nothing from small niche interest that drew me to reddit in the first place.
True, but I was still curious about what communities get mentioned here. And also, without communities catering to different users’ interests, there will be no engagement.
Art/design related communities. I made a few here but I was the only one posting. Also miss the model making/diorama/mini painting subs. And some other little niche hobby communities.
Oh also local city communities are basically nonexistent here and it will prob take years for that to become viable here.
I miss the regional/local subs. While there’s technically a few for my region spread across different instances, none of them have much, if any, activity.
Of the more “niche” communities, the one I miss the most is r/fosteranimals. I started one here, and have posted a few times, but given the already limited audience, plus my inexperience at growing/moderating a community, and my tendency to be mostly a lurker, I have not managed any engagement in the community beyond up/down votes.
There are some small, niche reddit communities I miss. Unfortunately since this part of the fediverse is small, the niche communities are even smaller. Either moderated by one person and no posts, or it just doesn’t exist.
Some very nische anime communitys, but that would require more users in the first place.
/r/BestOfRedditorUpdates
I still go back to read the weekly /top posts. Lots of interesting drama.
malicious compliance
while curbing the number of “challenged the cook to test my spice tolerance and lost” posts
A populated am I the asshole. That one really needs a critical mass of all sorts of people to be fun. When my GF and I go out to eat we generally pull the top posts of the week and talk em over while we eat. It’s a great conversation starter and a wonderful way to find out little stories that don’t come up in everyday conversation.
Essentially all of the ones that I used. r/Minecraft, r/minecraftsuggestions, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, r/pixelart, etc.
The thing is that all of these have communities and magazines on the fediverse — it’s just that there’s little, if any, activity on them. I don’t think you can really say that these communities are here if they have one person posting on them regularly.
The only communities that actually have a solid amount of activity here are ones about memes and news. If that’s all that you used Reddit for, then the fediverse is doing great, and such people will act baffled at how anyone could stay on or miss Reddit. But for everyone else, the content just isn’t there.
Same thing for ttrpgs. That was pretty much all I used reddit for the last few years. It has since just gone away. I’ve functionally stopped accruing new rpg creators and news.
Also comics. I followed a lot of new creators in the last few years. Most of them only post on Reddit.
was polandball and geometry dash subs
Yeah, it’d be nice to see an active Geometry Dash community given that 2.2 just released. /m/geometrydash is in the abandoned magazines section, so I might request ownership and try to get a bit of activity going there.
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r/hotas
r/trackballIt’s deffo r/Flairwars and r/Num for me, despite not having been in the latter in the time I was on that site.
Both have their own unique inside jokes, battling systems, lore, fanworks, and most of all, a slow yet steadily thriving community that’s accepting of everyone. I often wonder how my first aforementioned community would thrive in this vast federated space, especially with all the new possibilities out here… Maybe new lore expansions, and a reinvigoration on the way?There are some small niche communities that I miss interacting with because the people were pretty cool. Mostly warhammer and some smaller game communities.
Grimdank made it over here if that’s one of the ones you’re missing, would love more Warhammer memes
Edit: @grimdank
Eyeblech.
It’s one of the reasons I created Morbid Curiosity in Kbin, to push things a little towards such material!
DigitalMinimalism
It was quiet, but people would sometimes discuss various way for preventing screens etc from being too much a part of their daily lives.I still check /r/hockey for sports news since I feel like it’s the best way to keep up on all events compared to Shitter or HFBoards. The quality of discussion and friendliness of the community had been pretty good from between 2010-2020, a really good stretch that I can’t say was the same for most subreddits I used to follow. From 2020 on, there was a rapid change in tone on that subreddit as more and more angry dbags from Shitter started to frequent it more regularly and it became a not so fun place to engage with anymore.
I recently inherited /m/hockey here. I plan on being more active there in the near future by trying to create multi-topic news summary posts on a weekly basis.
