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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] 125 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

This is kind of bullshit. On a big platform, like Reddit, where there are orders of magnitude more users, the likelihood is that there are a good number of people interested in whatever niche topic you want. That's a draw for a lot of people. I left Reddit for Lemmy for good, but we're just not up to that kind of user base.

And it's not zero effort to get a community going and keep it active, especially with a small user base. It's perfectly reasonable for someone to want a place that discusses their niche interest without wanting to be responsible for running that place. It doesn't make them bad or lazy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I look at the nfl community here. It really only gets a handful of posts on Sunday and that's it. It blows my mind that there isn't more engagement

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder if that’s related to a user base that skews heavily toward techies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Im sure youre right. My point is thats not even a niche topic. A quick Google estimates there are 21 million viewers PER GAME every week. There are literally hundreds of millions of fans of the nfl, but even a subject so popular can't maintain a healthy community on lemmy, how are these niche topics supposed to stand a chance at survival?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It is a niche topic, here, where we all use Linux btw (or at least we keep our mouths shut if we don't, for fear of being mobbed:-D).

We talk about what we want to talk about here. Linux, memes, TV, uh... Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, beans, jeans, not pooping - and I think that's pretty much it, except for politics, am I missing anything? 😁

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