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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

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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™""""

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

Making the community doesn't mean it has any activity. There's tons of communities already made for a bunch of niche topics. None of them are being posted in. There's also communities that aren't niches that also lack activity.

[email protected] only has about 3 active users, not including myself. The DLC is still pretty new and it's a massively popular game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

I will not whine about the lack of this niche community, because both c/Indiana and c/[email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

For someone whose major gripe is whining you sure seem to do a lot of it.

I take offense to it because you're suggesting that the problem is us, and not the system which resulted in empty communities

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe the answer is a better search engine to find the communities.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I don't even know how to find new communities that aren't part of my instance. Is there some place that just lists them by date created?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

On my instance you just click "Communities" at the top and it gives you a list of communities with three options at the top Subscribed/Local/All just like the main feed. Click all and you can browse or search the list of all communities, though the search is not great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Your instance does need to know about these communities existing first though. For recently created communities on another instance that might not be the case. Which is where services like Lemmy Explorer help.

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

whoa, Lemmy explorer is a great resource, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Lemmy Explorer will do it...I think. "Newest publish time" sort is what you're looking for, I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

That would certainly help.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"Why complain about lacking a community when you can create your own ghost town"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 hours ago

Exactly

Someone has already created my niche community, and there are 2 people in it, and it hasn't grown since I joined, and that makes the conversations in it boring af

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

Can't wait for 0 people to join my Haibane Renmei community that I don't have the experience or patience to mod, nor the understanding of the source material to justify creating it in the first place

ETA: I just searched, and found out one person already has made a Haibane Renmei community. It has one subscriber, the person who made it, who has been inactive since 2022. There are some things that simply can't be replicated in a smaller platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

Post something and see if you can stir up activity?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Modding a niche Lemmy community is a breeze, honestly

Not much is happening, but not many troublemakers, either. Modding is pretty much zero effort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Haibane Renmei

I had to look this up, is it Lain adjacent? Very similar artworks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

Very Lain adjacent! Yoshitoshi Abe did the character design for Serial Experiments Lain before making Haibane Renmei. There are many Lain fans in the Haibane community

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

The problem is that the niche community exist. In fact it probably exists several times, one in each instance with a small number of followers. Which makes really hard to go and decide in which community you want to invest.

It's one fundamental problem of federative systems and to be solved some of the federal nature need to be partially given away, but I think is necessary. I propose two solutions:

  1. Automatic merging of communities. All communities with the same name within a federation are de facto replicated. So a post in any community just replicate in all. It will make it seem like there's only one community.

2 Discourage. Everytime you try to create a community that already exists in other instance a pop up appears that encourage you to just go to the other community. For already duplicated communities messages are sent to concentrate in the biggest one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Kbin had a cool feature where you could see other subs where a link was reposted to, was great for finding what's active or dead.

Wish that one made it to Lemmy.

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

That popup idea is something that could work, and something that one could suggest on Lemmy's github for implementation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I like it, but that's not the model Lemmy was built around.

It'd be neat if, instead of posting to a community you posted to your instance and tagged your post with a topic, and then instances could contain topic aggregators with moderators that moderated their local view of the topic.

But even that comes with challenges around protection at-risk people like kids, where nobody is fully able to control the discourse around them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I've been asking for a personal finance community for a while. The only US-based one I've found is on .ml, which...ew. I haven't made one because I do not have the time to mod a big, popular sub like that one will hopefully become.

Buuuuut I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it so I made it: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

I'm sure it will be a shitshow but at least I tried.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

I did. There's almost zero engagement. My most popular thread is a meta narrative about me being in there talking to myself. There were at least two other attempts that are even more inactive. Not enough of y'all are into synthesizers.

https://lemm.ee/c/synthesizers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

We need better discoverable tools. I subscribed to the community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For curiosity, where did you advertise the community? In the "new communities"/"find a community" communities? In music-related communities? Or both?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

Hmm. I made no effort to advertise at all. I came during the Rexodus last year after the API kerfuffle. Initially, it seemed promising, and I didn't think I'd need to, but activity died down quite quickly. I've never moderated a community before or anything like that. I certainly don't want to it to become a full time job. I have enough of those.

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