a community about the game vivid/stasis would be cool, but its probably too niche to get any activity
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I'm sure they are there somewhere, but my fellow hardware synthesizer/sampler geeks where do you chat? The music production communities I've visited here have been pretty slow and/or more DAW/software focused (I know, be the change), but also the music community seems a bit unique in that there's still a decent amount of old school forums still kicking.
r/locksmith has no equivalent here and I'm not sure it ever will because it's such a niche trade. Niche porn subreddit equivalents would also be nice but the ones I'm thinking about get barely any activity on Reddit so they would be completely dead here.
The ones I'm still sticking on Reddit for. Namely the Bionicle community, and a number of game communities that are still stuck in the there.
I mean, yes, they exist over here too. But they're incredibly dead in comparison. And trying to get people to move from there... Will, it would be easier to push a boulder uphill.
One of my niche hobbies, like HEMA and HEMAScholar.
A community for Ikea stuffs would be nice too?
Active combat sports community would be cool. I love mma, boxing, bjj and anything related to combat.
Frugality.
We have a bit of it through zerowaste but I wish there was more.
We now have dumpster diving for DD or Curb findings but there isn't much activity yet.
~~I would also love to see a community about decluttering with an anticonsumption mindset.~~ !simpleliving@lemmy.ml is mentioned down there.
Most of the communities I would like to see already exist, what they lack is... participants.
To name just one, among my few favorites of back when I used reddit there was r/Simpleliving, which exists on lemmy too: !simpleliving@slrpnk.net. Sadly, it's not active.
As somebody that cares too much about Lemmy and the Fediverse surviving... I BEG YOU! PLEASE, please, please... be a bit more willing to post and comment. If everyone was willing to spend a little time looking for new content to post to a few of the niche communities that they're part of, (especially the least active communities,) and posted once a month or so, we wouldn't have so many "dead" communities. And this would lead to a more rich experience on the Fediverse.
I 100% agree with your plea, and only +1 because I cannot + it more than that. But I also want to point out that ‘participation’ can be difficult to quantify rightly.
Take the simplest (and only ?) metric we can access on Lemmy: our user profiles. I just checked, hope you won’t mind: yours is 2 years old with 2K+ comments (let's ignore new posts even though you also have posted a lot), while mine is 7 months old for almost 0.8k comments.
Conclusion? We both are active but, on an absolute basis, I seem to be a lot less active than you are. But if we compare on a daily basis it seems I do comment a little more than you do.
But then, this says nothing about the type of content we both share (images? Texts? and so on), nor does it say much on our ability to participate. I mean, maybe I don't have a job and have all my time available to post silly shit around here, while you could be the CEO of one of those mega corp (well, maybe not that kind of CEO but you get the idea: someone really busy) or maybe you have serious health issues that make it much harder for you to participate. That alone should make a difference in the appreciation of our respective participation, beside sheer volume. At least, I would think so.
Back to your point:
I BEG YOU! PLEASE, please, please… be a bit more willing to post and comment. If everyone was willing to spend a little time looking for new content to post to a few of the niche communities that they’re part of, (especially the least active communities,) and posted once a month or so, we wouldn’t have so many “dead” communities. And this would lead to a more rich experience on the Fediverse.
Once again, 100% agree with you. But I think there is something else going on... I don’t know what exactly. Allow me to use ‘my’ own community as an example.
A little over a year ago or so, I revived the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community.
It has been dead for a year when I joined and since I was myself into journaling (have been all my live, since I was a little boy and I'm now nearing my 60s) I thought maybe I could contribute content and help motivate more people to participate. At first I posted daily, then weekly, then less frequently, and now almost nothing (I published a note informing members that I had to deal with personal matters, it’s supposed to be temporary).
While I was regularly posting, I did get a few participants to post and comment too, that was great content. But it was also very little volume in comparison to the quickly growing number of subscribers. Like, really.
When I ‘reopened’ the community I did not thought about writing down the number of subscribers but I’m pretty confident there were less than 250 of us, today it seems we’re around 1,35k (if I can trust the instance metrics). I’m glad as fuck to see as many people interested in journaling but I don’t get it why there is so little content being shared, even more so knowing a few other subscribers are, very much like me, long term journalers with a lot of experience they can share, while others subscribers are beginners or are just curious about it, with a lot of questions and doubts they should be willing to share with like-minded people, knowing both groups are more than welcome to participate.
There was a new post a few days ago and it got a few comments and likes, and that was it. Why?
It’s a very niche community, meaning all members are at least already interested and/or curious about it. Why is there so few content posted/shared? No idea. When I started posting, I had the idea that peopel posted nothign because they were afaid to look silly (or were afraid of being judged). So I updated the rules and posted my own (willy/goofy) content thinking it will encourage them. It seems I was wrong.
If I had to conclude anything (which I refuse to do, at least not yet) I would say:
- Maybe the type of content I shared to begin with was not the best choice? Maybe that is true but then, without enough negative feedback, it’s hard to correct path. And the little feedback I got was quite supportive.
- I would almost be tempted to say people are just subscribing to communities they’re interested in just so they know they will see new content if there is any posted. And if there is none to be seen, well, they know they will get some elsewhere (looking at you, reddit). So, why would they bother posting anything themselves?
Like I said, I refuse to conclude that but my gut feeling does go in that direction. And to oppose that trend I have no idea what I can do, nor if I should even try?
I will see how it goes after I’m back at it, hopefully somewhere end march or April.
It isn't a matter of what I'd like to see on Lemmy, it is more like, I want to see more activity in already dead and mostly abandoned instances on Lemmy and the fediverse.
My favorite three communities from the othersite are niches of niches (of niches again, even) that simply aren't popular with this crowd. lol
Niche communities, in general. Lemmy just doesn't have as much users to support many of the niche communities.
Two communities that I miss the most from Reddit is r/mapporncirclejerk and r/vexillologycirclejerk. It's not something that is going to appear organically until Lemmy reaches a certain critical mass, but maybe one day
r/cripplingalcoholism
Hell yeah brother I'm right here
Plur1bus and similar high profile tv shows so i can look at memes
Blender and other FOSS software memes
I just want more memes pertaining to my obscure interests but no time or motivation to mod communities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well I mean !television@piefed.social is an active, broader-use tv community.
I also made a feed network of the TV communities on the fediverse.
There's one of your problems solved. I had a discussion in a weekly thread there
i just assumed it didn't exist argh why didn't i check!?
muchas gracias
FOSS software memes
Check out these communities
There aren’t enough cats or other awww.
It's never enough!
Maybe there's a lack of posting activity, but there are a lot of communities.
Looking at https://lemmyverse.net/communities :
!cat@lemmy.world
!aww@lemmy.world
!cats@sh.itjust.works
!oneorangebraincell@lemmy.world
!illegallysmolcats@lemmy.world
!meow_irl@sopuli.xyz
!catsstandingup@lemmy.world
!scrungycats@lemmy.world
!blurrypicturesofcats@lemmy.world
!catswithjobs@lemmy.world
!tuckedinkitties@lemmy.world
!standardissuecat@lemmy.world
!voidcats@lemmy.world
!pallascats@lemmy.world
!catloaf@lemmy.world
!chonkers@lemmy.world
!floof@lemmy.world
!ooobigstretch@lemmy.world
!cattorneys_at_paw@lemmy.world
!russianblue@lemmy.world
!murdermittens@lemmy.world
!britishshorthairs@lemmy.world
!piebaldcats@lemmy.world
!crabcats@lemmy.world
!piratekitties@lemmy.world
!greebles@lemmy.world
!catsnamedtoothless@lemmy.world
!catsonstereos@lemmy.world
!meow@lemmy.world
!torties@lemmy.world
!catsvideos@lemmy.world
!JellyBeanToes@lemmy.world
!floaf@lemmy.world
!kittycrew@lemmy.world
!aww@sh.itjust.works
!awwanimals@sh.itjust.works
!sillycats@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!space_cats@sopuli.xyz
!petdiscussion@sh.itjust.works
!cats@eviltoast.org
!stolen_dog_beds@sh.itjust.works
!mainecoons@lemmy.ca
!stiltycats@lemmy.dbzer0.com
!torties@reddthat.com
!cats@lemmy.cixoelectronic.pl
!Cats@lemmy.org
Thanks! (Not enough though!!!!)
I'm not a big enough fan of the medium to be able to keep a community around it alive, but just found a new audio drama recommended in the pluribus subreddit, and am listening to it now (it's called immunities if you're interested).
Anyways, I just looked and was like, oh, there isn't a c/audiodrama on Lemmy. It is what it is, but it'd be nice.
Oh! I would share link to my favorite epsode of "Les Maîtres du mystère" there. That would be great.
r/darkartwork is one of the only things I still browse on reddit with no smoke whatsoever fit the community. Amazing place with heavy anti-incel/anti-fash inclinations. Great reminder that art can sometimes be a great magnet for unspoken moral character
I wish it was here, but it might not have drawn the same numbers since it's kind if niche
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Ones of niche topics that I am interested in.
Such as?
Specific anime / manga / franchises
e.g. umamusume
If you think you'd have regular content to post (a few times a week) you could create it. If you think it would be less frequent you could share to an anime community to gauge interest.
The one with all the terrible music; I miss that one =C
!badmusic@lemmy.world hasn't seen posts in two years, but it exists.
I'd like to see a revival of !SimRacing@lemmy.zip, but it seems the mod abandoned it. They joined Lemmy, were active for a couple days and then vanished.
There was !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social, but I was the only one posting there and it looks like the instance died at some point.
shoutout to all my lemmies singlehandedly keeping comms alive 🫡
I wish the gurps community was more active. I know there's the forum and that's where I find myself looking for stuff more often. But a community would be cool. I also admit I wouldn't have much to provide. I'm currently an enthusiast with plans to run a game, but zero experience.
One of the few I miss from reddit is r/gunnitrust. Diy firearms really does fit with the vibe here and the artist quality of some of them was gorgeous.
I'd also thought about making a goblin market. Sort of a barter only swap meet for all the weird and wonderful things that we in the goblincore community gather.
Also some sort of practical activism group.
A more active (>1 post per three months) Valheim community. The one on Reddit is quite active and even quite friendly. I also have had some good conversations about it on Mastodon, so there is a bit of Valheim presence on the fediverse.
A more active (>1 post per three months) Valheim community.
If you're talking about !valheim@sh.itjust.works, it looks like !valheim@lemmy.world breaks your average-one-post-over three month bar, though not by that much.
scp
https://lemmy.world/c/scp https://sopuli.xyz/c/scp_memes
been subbed to these for a while but wish they were more active
I know I've been looking for communities for Americans immigrating abroad.
You'll get answers at Travel.
I've been traveling 15 years and created the com as an active resource for lemstituents curious about any kind of travel
Thanks!
A community about utaites would be nice. I thought about opening one once.
youngslutsforoldpervs and AZgonewild were my fav to post in on reddit