Attempts to create niche communities that ended up being the owner talking to himself and receiving 2 upvotes. (niche coms appear to be gaining steam)

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      Well I don’t know much about bridge and after watching Chico Marx play for a while on the 1950s televised bridge tournament I’m even more confused. Good articles though i wish you luck finding that partner.

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    I think of the specific Lemmy communities especially when a more general community already exists. For example if there’s a gardening community people may not post to the succulent community because it has a smaller community.

    One nice thing about Lemmy though is as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance. It’s not like Reddit where you have to to hope your initial self promotion really takes off and snowballs.

    Due to this I continue to post content that fits smaller communities even if it’s not going to get much attention.

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      as long as the community is created on a larger instance it should show up when users sort by all within that instance

      This is an issue for communities that are on smaller instances, and with the current algorithm it’s like a brick wall trying to break through to feeds of users on the big instances. For example, the most active college football community is !cfb@fanaticus.social but the abandoned community on lemmy.world keeps gaining subscribers (even with no content).

      As a whole, niche-driven instances (e.g. sport, film, literature, aviation) and geography-focused instances (e.g. midwest, dmv) just aren’t gaining much traction.

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        I mean I don’t know about a lot of people but if I am searching for a community chances are I’m subscribing to all similar communities.

        There’s also promotional communities within other instances where as long as one individual federates with it everyone should start to see it

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    I really wish my sports communities migrated over. Even a few dozen users would be better than talking to the play by play bots, although I think the bots here are much better than the ones on Reddit.

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    Feel free to advertise your communities here:

    !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

    I requested the community a few days ago to get it rolling again. It’s much harder to find and discover communities compared to Reddit, so communities need a lot more promo than they would have otherwise.

    It doesn’t have to be your community, and you don’t need to say a lot. You can also just stay subscribed to see the cool communities that get posted.

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    !thebrewery@Lemmy.World

    I made it because it was one of my favorites to go to back on Reddit. But I’m the only one that has posted. I get very little to no replies on each post and I don’t even know what else to post.

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    There’s one dude named Maple who seems to be single handedly running a community called videogamebutts. His posts occasionally hit hot at like 2 am, for some reason.