Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com asking people which community there were missing.
I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can’t be filled until we reach a higher population.
There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.
I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on !newcommunities@lemmy.world (now moving to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.
One example is !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.
Similar with !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, or !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.
On our new user application, we have a question for ‘What communities you would most like to participate in.’
When I read through those applications, a lot of the time I remember communities that would fit what they’re looking for. While we could send them some links in an introductory message, it would be better to crowdsource that information.
If we can encourage people to ask about communities, that might help? I could do more of that myself, since I don’t think I’ve ever asked before.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca allows request posts, and if the volume gets to high we can redirect people to !lemmy411@lemmy.ca (or equivalent communities) so users can stay subscribed to CommunityPromo without seeing question spam in their feeds
We can probably try that on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca.
Nice idea to have custom welcome messages