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Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on [email protected] asking people which community there were missing.

I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can't be filled until we reach a higher population.

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 [email protected] (now moving to [email protected] ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is [email protected], it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with [email protected], or [email protected]. 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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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 [email protected] should help

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

My reflex moving over was to subscribe to everything I’m interested in and never use all, because I’ve never used it on reddit.

This created a problem where since lemmy’s sorting all basically sort by most popular (except scaled but that sort is problematic for other reasons), I basically only saw the meme and news communities I subscribed to on my feed and the niche stuff never made it.

I know @[email protected] is working on an algorithmic alternative [email protected] but it’s not got support on any apps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I usually use scaled for my subscribed feed and it works decently. Recently was advised to try out "newest comments" sorting for the subscribed feed and I like that even more!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

have you tried Scaled sort? I use Scaled for my subscribed feed and it does a great job showing new posts in niche communities

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, I have several accounts due to that issue. Comes back to the lack of personal feeds mentioned elsewhere.

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