• Corroded@leminal.space
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    1 year ago

    Flushed out niche communities. There was a real push to create communities a few months ago but it seems like a lot of them haven’t been getting attention since the blackouts ended and a sizeable amount of people returned to Reddit.

    It’s understandable considering there’s comparably less people. It would be harder to branch off from a gaming community to specifically a Splinter Cell community for example. That said a lot of the communities that were quickly created and seemingly abandoned aren’t super flushed out with things like a logo or general information in a sidebar which might cause people to not post there to begin with.

    I feel like these communities have a real decent chance especially if they are created in larger instances due to how many people sort by all/new on Lemmy compared to Reddit.


    Maybe how easy it was to find posts on Reddit using a search engine? Like Googling “How to care for cast iron pans Reddit”

    I don’t think I’ll miss the avatars, awards, the Redditisms, how much weight people put into upvotes, the sorting algorithms, and so on.

    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Same here. Can’t count how many times I’ve thought, oh, I can ask online! only to remember that there likely isn’t a community here fleshed out enough to provide useful information.

      For example, I’m a Scout, about to turn 18, and I have a ton of questions regarding how I can be involved in the program after I become an adult. Can’t ask reddit, and discussion related to scouting outside of Reddit is pretty limited.

    • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
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      1 year ago

      They shouldn’t be created on larger instances, they really should be made on small niche focused instances to spread things out.