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Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it'd foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of "normal people", that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they're interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

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[–] Lantech@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I created a place for model trains: @modeltrains / !modeltrains@kbin.social (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).

[–] Crankpork@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Congratulations! You get to help found those niche communities in a new place!

[–] Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] victron@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bro, the boom is still under way, be patient.

[–] GoodKingElliot 1 points 1 year ago

I joined a meditation Lemmy community. So far it was just one person posting once a day or so. But it was a start. If you or I joined and started making posts, we can be the seeds that nucleate the clouds and make rain.

[–] trifictional@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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