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.

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    il y a 2 jours

    I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can’t be filled until we reach a higher population.

    100% agree. And I know it first hand with !journaling@sh.itjust.works: it could be much larger as one just easily see when comparing with the similar reddit sub, but we don’t share the same user base to begin with ;)

    As it is I don’t think we need more communities. We need more active members and simpler way to promote specific content. Like I said in my other answer, for me the real issue is there: for something that is proud to be ‘federated’, linking anywhere from anywhere should be rock solid and dead simple. It is not, far from it. If it’s even doable. Heck, even within my own community: I don’t know how I can safely put links to any previous thread or message in a thread that I’m sure will work for anyone clicking them no matter the instance they’re logged in.

    Maybe I’m missing something obvious and it’s already a thing? But I think getting that ability to link stuff would be a huge win for Lemmy, no mater the number of active members ;)

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        il y a 2 jours

        Yep, and like I said it’s good it exists but it should not be needed ta all, it’s way too hacky. I really think the ability to link between components (no matter where and what they are) in what presents itself as a fediverse should edit: ought to work without hack.