I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
I mean have they seen how good Ice Cubes and Mlem look? How can they choose the default Twitter and Reddit apps over those masterpieces.
The problem with more generic communities is that you might be sharing it with more people, but they’re not people who are engaged with the topic. And that’s what I really miss. The deep conversations on theorising, community drama, etc. that can only come from a large number of people who are really interested in the subject. Posting to a generic community limits the type of discussions you can have to those that are more accessible to a generic audience.
As another example, just now I’ve been playing Kerbal Space Program for the first real time (I toyed around with it briefly many years ago, but didn’t try career mode and completing contracts). Right now, I’m struggling to understand why something I’m doing isn’t working. I would love to be able to go to !kerbalspaceprogram and ask an audience of people who know what they’re talking about. Sure, I could try my luck in [email protected] or something even more generic like [email protected]. But neither of those are really the appropriate venue for something that’s so specifically only of interest to people who know about KSP. Posting “I’ve been playing KSP lately and really enjoying it” makes sense on patientgamers. Posting a detailed scenario of what I’ve been doing and what I’ve done in the past, and asking why it doesn’t work for me right now even though it seemed to work before…probably doesn’t.
Another example: I’ve been posting every useful or interesting guide or analysis of Age of Mythology I’ve come across to !aom. It wouldn’t really feel right to post that kind of thing to patientgamers. But I probably will post when the upcoming expansion comes out to more generic communities
Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe posting niche game-specific content to generic communities is a good way to bring attention to them for more people who would be interested in it, while also bringing attention to an audience that didn’t know they might be interested in it. I’d love to hear others’ thoughts on this. Maybe I should put a post in [email protected] for this discussion?
It’s always a question of balance. How many people will see your niche community? How actively do you promote it? Is the userbase even large enough to have enough people interested in your community?
You mentioned Age of Mythology, I actually posted a while ago about it on [email protected] : https://sopuli.xyz/post/14540736. I got a few comments there, so probably people you can try reaching out or pinging in your community.
I just had a look, you have 74 subscribers on [email protected]. The userbase might be there, but if they are, they don’t know about it. You can try promoting it on
The last three communities aren’t that active, but they have between 200 and 300 subscribers, so that could help building your userbase.
As a side note, I don’t know how popular AoM is. Games like [email protected] and [email protected] are doing fine, but they are quite popular and active.
For Kerbal, have you tried [email protected]? There is also
Might be worth it to choose one of them as “the one”, and promote it to the other one, as well as the gaming communities above.
As you can see, it takes quite some work to get a niche community going, and that’s why personally nowadays I stick to very generic communities: shows, pokemon, leagueoflegends (niche if you want, but still one of the most popular games worldwide), patientgamers.
Ah, no, I have not! I did try searching “kerbal space program” in the Communities search, but it only came back with a result from a dead instance. Looks like that instance completely lacks any reference to the full name of the game, which is why it didn’t show up. Rather incidentally, that’s why I made a deliberate choice to have the AoM community be !aom but have its display name be “Age of Mythology”. I knew people might search for either and wanted both to work.
Looks like the KSP mod is absent, or I’d suggest they do the same.
Thanks for those other community suggestions. I might take the opportunity of the upcoming expansion (I’m expecting a lunar new year release date, given it’s a Chinese civ) to share in those communities. I’m just very wary of being seen as overly spammy. Most of my promotion thus far has been looking for threads where I can respond by talking about Age of Mythology in the comments and linking it from there.
Definitely not as popular as those others. That goes back to my original point. There’s a significant network effect in a site as big as Reddit, and it’s hard to blame individuals for not leaving if their smaller, more niche interests are not catered for on the new site yet. Even though, chicken-and-egg style, if they did all move at once to Lemmy, there would instantly be all the space for all the same communities to thrive.