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.
There are some genre communities here at least. The incremental community is just broken, but I can get into the Cinny Matrix chatroom just fine: https://incremental.social/.
!tycoon@lemmy.world is active, I run !otomegames@ani.social, there were more that I followed and lost the list of when I lost access to my incremental.social account besides the Matrix stuff. But communities for specific games probably will be hard to find.
Does not help the Reddit otomegames sub shoves other community promo to a Self-Promotion Sunday nobody checks. I get it, constant spam is not fun, but it also sucks for visibility, especially since I asked them if they’d be willing to get off Reddit and move to Fedi and they said no.
Same feeling on another community I’m trying to promote Lemmy on. It’s usually me and someone else on that Sunday thread that nobody reads.