Submitted 3 weeks ago by ultrahamster64@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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there’s no communities for my niche interests!!!
more like “i want a ready-made community where other people already putting effort into posting cool and intersting stuff, and all I want to do is sit on my ass and shower posts generously with “”“muh upvotes™””“”
I see this response all the time “create your own if you want to see niche communities and Reddit communities migrate here.” Well, if I have the bloody time to moderate, or even if I do, will there be many people? And if there are many people, do I have the time to moderate? What if there are mod bickering and drama?
The question is time. Does anyone else have the time to moderate and put up with BS inevitable with most communities?
You just reminded me to post in this new community I joined recently, so thank you.
I don’t think there are any" rant" communities?
Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.
I too also wouldn’t want to mod it, but I think it’d be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.
The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.
For example, a user ranting about “womens pants without pockets” would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.
The general discussion doesn’t really cut it, because it’s too nice and polite and weird angry rants don’t really fit in there.
The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they’ll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they’re willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.
I mean, that redirection then needs to work. At the moment, nobody in the Movie/TV communities is redirecting me to a specific TV show community saying “hey this exists, you can also post there”. Etc etc.
We have a pinned post on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee , isn’t it posted on your side?
Then post into the void until some other like-minded degenerate finds you. You need to create the meeting point!
I will not whine about the lack of this niche community, because both c/Indiana and c/Indiana@midwest.social exist, but boy do I wish they were even close to as active as r/Indiana was when I was on Reddit.
There is just not a good place to discuss state politics that I can find and I learned a lot through discussion.
And then post it in New Communities and other boards like it to advertise it!
Except this link doesn’t work properly /c/books , until it does lemmy is broken, the fediverse is broken, lemmy is not really federated.
Not sure whether you’re being facetious, but you link communities with an exclamation point.
!books
If you want to be absolutely sure you point to the community on a specific instance, just include the instance
!books@lemmy.world !books@lemmy.ml
Their other comment elaborates on this more:
Until the link /c/books shows any user, with only one click, the aggregate of all “books” communities in a single place, without subscribing or even logging in. Then lemmy will stagnate because it is failing to live up to its promise of federated decentralization
They want a link like /c/books to work like multireddits did on reddit to collect together books-related communities for improved browsing and discovery.
That’s just /c/books on one server.
When say /c/books, I mean all of them, not /c/books@lemmy.ml
Until then, expect nearly all communities to dry on the vine.
How do I create a community on Sync? Can’t find a button for that.
This did remind me to create a community for the one subreddit I used the most before I left reddit, r/jakeandamir. Thank you, I did that today!
Not for free.
Yep, be the change you want to see in the world.
Also, making communities is fun! I made !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee and it is booming thanks to several lemmings who I got to post consistently. Shout out to thepiccardmanuever.
Lurkers complain where creators entertain
A lurker never complains. That is why they are lurkers.
I lurker is never late, nor is he early, they arrive precisely when they mean to.
Oh but some do create very helpful content like “repost!” comments to help people seeing old content from getting embarrassed by not realizing all discussion about that content has been done already.
Some try to improve stories by adding claims of applause or a famous person offering a sum of money, probably because it’s silly to imagine such embellishments and they like joining in on the fun.
Yes putting in the same amount of effort as the reposter.
lol like they’d ever actually upvote.
The culture is not conducive here; Lemmings have no chill.
Been posting to “Europe” since forever. Still only a fraction of users compared to that other site. About 3000 monthly I believe. Driving engagement is harder than it seems.
Still good numbers for how big Lemmy is
Even though I’m disabled and can’t work, I don’t have the time or the energy to maintain something like that
I keep looking where on my local ATM machine that I can exchange internet points to ducats
doubloons would be acceptable as well
I would contribute to my niche community, but my foreskin was severed without my consent, so…
I mean, really, I just want other people to be moderating it even if I’m the only one posting stuff. Ain’t nobody got time for dat!
For real, there are people who will volunteer to do that, to help a community get off the ground. See !fedigrow@lemm.ee.
Create a Community. If I do that who will hold my dick when I wanna take a piss.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the lifecycle of internet forums
“I’m sick of this place, I’m going somewhere new!” > “This place is deserted” > “Let’s diversify and get more users” > “There are more users but they are all posting content I’m not interested in” > “I’m sick of this place, I’m going somewhere new!”
I’ve been through at least half a dozen such cycles, it’s just a normal part of life when you live vicariously through an ethernet cable. Lemmy will grow, get old, go to shit, and die, and half the population will move somewhere else. Probably Pylon.