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While larger, more general communities are thriving on the Fediverse - I'm missing out on the niche communities (kbin.social)
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Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it'd foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of "normal people", that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they're interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

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[–] donuts@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On top of that, we can't expect communities to POOF into existence.

We have to be part of them to build them, which means making them if they don't exist yet as well as posting and commenting in the ones that do exist. I hope that people who are used to lurking on Reddit will go out of their comfort zone a bit and start to participate in fediverse communities so that we can build things up more quickly.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yesterday lurkers are going to need to be today's commenters and posters!

I see y'all lurkin'
Not postin'

[–] defeater@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel attacked

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are being drafted. We are sending you out to colonize the fediverse!

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm doing my part

[–] Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And my axe! something something name checks out.

[–] TechDiver@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i was a reddit lurker for 10 years. i didnt even have an account. today i made my second comment here. hello world

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Patrollin' and tryna catch me lurkin' dirty

[–] Orbitrix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I was a prolific commenter but I think I only created maybe 6-8 posts in 14 years on reddit, and certainly never created a community. So I might have to step up. Regardless of reddit, I absolutely love the idea of the fediverse and the decentralized nature of it, so I really would like to see it succeed. It really does have to be the way forward on the internet to avoid corporate interests.

[–] warden@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. The voice in the back of my head says "be the change you want to see in the world", then I'm like "nah that's too much work"...

[–] NomadJones@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the consensus on the etiquette of creating new communities/magazines with the names of the still extant old subreddits (particularly when you're not a mod of the old subreddit)?

[–] donuts@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not really sure... but the way I see it it's probably fair game.

Communities aren't something that somebody (reddit, specific moderators, etc.) owns, they are just concepts that people latch onto. And, for me at least, I would rather see popular communities exist here if people want them to, especially since you can have multiple communities under the exact same name on different servers in the fediverse.

In other words, if you want to bring over a specific reddit community I think you should just do it.