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Trying to build critical mass for small communities

Hi, I’m focusing on generating content for a few communities that I feel can be successful and have less content than I expected:

EDIT: I did not create any of those communities

I would encourage anyone to participate if you like those topics.

Do you know any other niche-but-not-too-niche communities in which we could focus efforts?
Please, don’t post very long lists, I’m already subscribed to almost 300 communities and the idea is to focus on a few ones.

Thanks!

EDIT: Added descriptions for each community.

Aarrodri ,

!Formuladank Only a handful of people posting.

Crul OP ,

Good luck!

I’m personally focusing on non-meme communities, but that’s just personal preference.

LazaroFilm ,
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Cassettefurutism!! Man that one was so active on Reddit. The other one I miss is WeirdWings.

2tone ,

I’ve just created

Both can be very active communities once people are there

Coelacanth ,
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I’ve been trying to participate in !superautopets. It had a decent sized community on Reddit and it would be great to have some weekly discussion here.

Crul OP ,

Good luck!

I don’t have much to contribute to that community… I had never heard of that game :/.

Coelacanth ,
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It’s a fun time-killer or toilet game, seemingly simple but with surprising depth for what it is. It’s free to try, if you’re interested.

Reverendender , (edited )
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Can you explain what these things are? The only one I understand is obviously comic strips. Also, join us at !tinnedseafoodAlso, how do I make that a link?(Thanks!) (Or type italics, bold, or strikethrough here on lemmy?)

Crul OP ,

My bad, you’re right, I should have added a small description (done!):

Coelacanth ,
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Also, how do I make that a link? (Or type italics, bold, or strikethrough here on lemmy?)

Lemmy uses Markdown, though not all apps handle the full syntax yet (I know sync struggles with Spoiler and Code for example).

Bilbo ,

More hobbits are always welcome at: !hobbit_art

captain_mud ,
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I’ll chime in with the communities in my new instance 4wd.social:

  • !4x4 : pretty self explanatory. 4x4 related discussion.
  • !overlanding : discussion dedicated to overlanding / 4wd touring
  • !dji_drone : DJI drone related discussion, photos or videos captured
Hyggyldy , (edited )

There’s the entire instance of sffa.community. It stands for Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance. I’d love to see it get off the ground. Right now it’s mostly just Brando Sando stuff. I’ve been considering maybe starting a community called SFFA Gaming, but I don’t have any content to actually contribute.

Crul OP ,

Posted one there, good luck!

Hyggyldy ,

Thanks! Great piece!

pomodoro_longbreak ,
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I’m in. Thanks

rglullis , (edited )
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I’ve created and have been the only curator (so far) of !humanscale. My idea is to have a good set of ideas around the idea of human scale development, “smol tech” and anything that can give some relief to hyperglobalist and soulless worldview that is so prevalent today.

serfraser ,
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!fantasy and !squaredcircle are my personal niches, so if anyone’s interested please come over and get stuck in

Crul OP ,

Posted one on !fantasy

serfraser ,
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I tuuuurn around and look at what I see!

Crul OP ,

The song is the only reason I’m forced to acknowledge that there are film adaptations of the book, but I have already ranted about that on the other comment thread :).

Blaze ,

Isn’t !comicstrips doing pretty good? I see it reaching top of All quite often

Crul OP ,

Indeed, that’s one of the most promising ones… and it still only has 2 or 3 posts a day :/.

Blaze ,

I mean, people have lives too I guess :)

Crul OP , (edited )

I didn’t mean that I expect the same user to be posting all day. If different users send 1 post each, they still should have a lot of time for other things :)

Blaze ,

For sure, but I am at 500 posts on my main account, and to be honest posting so much content can sometimes be a bit tiring. I’m trying to get other people on my community to do it too but it’s not that easy.

Crul OP ,

posting so much content can sometimes be a bit tiring.

Agree. What I’m doing (in case it helps) is, instead of going for quantity, go for quality and try to focus the efforts on a few communities that interest me. That way I am posting about things I really like in just a few places and it doesn’t become a chore.

I’m trying to get other people on my community to do it too but it’s not that easy.

Indeed, it’s HARD. This is one of the reasons I haven’t created a community yet, it seems too much effort-VS-results-ratio. I know I’m taking the easy path because I’m not so invested in any specific community. So thanks to all of you who create and moderate all the communities.

Blaze ,

Definitely!

seacocker ,
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I created !oldphotosinreallife, which has over 300 subscribers, but limited interaction.

Crul OP ,

Posted one there, good luck!

seacocker ,
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Thanks! Plenty good will and community on Lemmy :-)

Crul OP ,

That’s our only advantage over the big sites :)

giacomo ,
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Give it time

6daemonbag , (edited )

Subbed! Though I’m not the contributing type, I love to see these kinds of posts

cacheson ,
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I had been trying to grow these two:

They were reasonably popular on reddit, 3m+ and 2m+ subscribers respectively. I started posting once per day to each of them soon after I migrated over, though my meme stash has mostly run dry at this point (I do have a bit more to post to anime_irl). There are some regular posters in anime_irl now, but animemes has been pretty dead since I stopped posting. I've also promoted them in the usual places.

There's also my own community, kbin.social/m/specialized_instances / /c/[email protected], for cataloging topic/location focused instances. It works fine as a solo project, but I wouldn't mind having more suggestions of things to add to the list.

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