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Trying to build critical mass for small communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Crul@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hi, I'm focusing on generating content for a few communities that I feel can be successful and have less content than I expected:

!cassettefuturism@lemm.ee: a genre of retrofuturism based on the 70's and 80's (more info)
!awwnverts@lemmy.world: cute invertebrates
!weirdwheels@lemmy.world: weird vehicles (with wheels)
!comicstrips@lemmy.world: self-explanatory

EDIT: I did not create any of those communities

I would encourage anyone to participate if you like those topics.

Do you know any other niche-but-not-too-niche communities in which we could focus efforts?
Please, don't post very long lists, I'm already subscribed to almost 300 communities and the idea is to focus on a few ones.

Thanks!

EDIT: Added descriptions for each community.

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[–] cacheson@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I had been trying to grow these two:

They were reasonably popular on reddit, 3m+ and 2m+ subscribers respectively. I started posting once per day to each of them soon after I migrated over, though my meme stash has mostly run dry at this point (I do have a bit more to post to anime_irl). There are some regular posters in anime_irl now, but animemes has been pretty dead since I stopped posting. I've also promoted them in the usual places.

There's also my own community, kbin.social/m/specialized_instances / /c/specialized_instances@kbin.social, for cataloging topic/location focused instances. It works fine as a solo project, but I wouldn't mind having more suggestions of things to add to the list.