Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on [email protected] 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 [email protected] (now moving to [email protected] ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.
One example is [email protected], it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.
Similar with [email protected], or [email protected]. 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.
The expectation that a social media that optimistically has 0.1% the user base of reddit, can support the same level of community fragmentation, is not realistic. I’ve been here long enough to see numerous failed attempts at starting a community for My Favorite Niche, rather than just posting about it in More General Community. You usually get a single “welcome” post by the creator, and then nothing more. If you’re lucky, the creator will make a small handful of their own posts before giving up.
Post about your favorite TV show in a tv/movies community, don’t make a new one just for your show. You’ll get way more engagement
I agree, but I also don’t want to spam those communities lol.
Like [email protected] or [email protected] would be too much spam for one of the gaming communities, or patient gamers.
And it’d be even more spammy for the communities that are in-between in specificity (like [email protected] or [email protected])
I just do rare cross-posts for the most notable posts
Oh yeah, if you can sustain those communities by yourself, that’s great! This advice is more for people who don’t know where to post about a specific topic
[email protected] has entered the chat 😀
I’m probably missing context here, is the name a brand or an established subreddit?
I think it’s a comm where some guy posts whatever they’re interested in at the moment. Kind of like c/Gondaily
nod the point was (in fun) to exemplify not doing what the GP comment to this thread was talking about; here we have a positive example of a user creating a single space to post any/all of their “niche” (eye of the beholder) content, rather than creating tiny communities for each interest. It was a light-hearted comment “see, like this”. :) (disclaimer: I’m subscribed)
Makes sense, thanks!
My cousin used to do [email protected]
He ended up doing a total social media break, and stopped posting after that, but he’s been thinking of starting back.
Agreed