It took a long time for niche communities to pop up on Reddit too, remember Reddit has been around a long time now. Back in the day, Digg was the shiznit and nobody knew about Reddit.
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I created a place for model trains: @modeltrains / [email protected] (on Lemmy, if that link doesn't work you should use the search button by your username to look up https://kbin.social/m/modeltrains).
To help deal with the existential dread, at least half of my Reddit subs were various cat subs, as well as subs for other cute animals, and I long for the day that I can get there again.
Congratulations! You get to help found those niche communities in a new place!
When I joined Kbin I created the communities I was most active in. Someone created my favorite community just before I did, so I instead requested to be added as a mod and I am now the most active poster there. I am the author of most of the posts there, and the number of subscribers is growing slowly but steadily. I think we just have to do what what's needed to make this the place we want it to be. A lot of us are going to have to go from lurkers to moderators, from occasional users to prolific posters. Things have to start somewhere. If we all just wait until someone else does what we expect, then we're all just stay waiting and nothing is going to happen.
Speaking of those large subs. Does anyone have the equivalent of world news, news, and games subreddits here?
I found a technology one, just need to grab those other ones. Links appreciated.