There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.

I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on !newcommunities@lemmy.world (now moving to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, or !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (19 children)

Community discovery 100% needs to be improved somehow. No matter how many popular posts you make you will heavily struggle getting the ball rolling, if you ever do.

This practically guarantees the death of niches, which is [obviously] not good for the fediverse as a whole.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Don't people use the Subscribed feed for their niche communities? So once they are subbed, it's all good?

If the issue is people not knowing about communities, then those posts on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca should help

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule influences this heavily imo

I think it's both. On latin for example i have 120 users (35 are lemmy federate bots) but i'm the only one posting there, despite some posts getting a lot of upvotes or comments.

This can heavily discourage mods and force them to quit which kills the community.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

I'm coming up on 1,000 subscribers, 500 posts, and 1.5+yrs of content creation in my bandes dessinées sublemmy, with myself being responsible for maybe 85-90% of total content creation. Your concerns are real and valid IMO.

Soon I plan to set up a bot to post small, 'drip-like' content every other day, supplementing the off-days with my beefier content, which are generally small reviews and content roundups. I guess my point is that it's good to keep trying different techniques out, asking this and other communities for ideas, and having requisite patience.

Also, I think light-handed advertising across various platforms probably helps. Imgur and Reddit have worked okay so far, but frankly I need someone to help with other social media joints. That's something an active mod could potentially help with...

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