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Is communities discovery really that bad, do we just miss enough people, or should people revisit their expectations and go for more general communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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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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[–] FundMECFS@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

My reflex moving over was to subscribe to everything I’m interested in and never use all, because I’ve never used it on reddit.

This created a problem where since lemmy’s sorting all basically sort by most popular (except scaled but that sort is problematic for other reasons), I basically only saw the meme and news communities I subscribed to on my feed and the niche stuff never made it.

I know @Aurelius@lemmy.world is working on an algorithmic alternative !quiblr@lemmy.world but it’s not got support on any apps.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I usually use scaled for my subscribed feed and it works decently. Recently was advised to try out "newest comments" sorting for the subscribed feed and I like that even more!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

have you tried Scaled sort? I use Scaled for my subscribed feed and it does a great job showing new posts in niche communities

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I have several accounts due to that issue. Comes back to the lack of personal feeds mentioned elsewhere.