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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 2 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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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Discovery still needs to be improved. And we need more active members, that would be delusional to say otherwise.

But I also think a unified linking mechanism between instances, communities, threads and to a specific message in any thread no matter the instance the reader is clicking the link from would help encourage people to link a lot more. I don't link as much as I would like to mostly because of that reason. And more links would also help discoverability of interesting content.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can use https://lemmyverse.link/

A bit hacky, but still works

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, I know it exists (thx to you, btw ;) but it's still a hack and it's far from being intuitive. Too many options are offered to anyone that just clicked a link and is now facing options and some odd delay before the link works. It's good to have it, but it should not be needed at all to begin with ;)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Instance-agnostic links have been implemented and will come for version 1.0: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

In the meantime, that's probably the best we have.