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https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
!reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)

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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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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The best would be for apps to let us create feeds. So a user can have an all feed but also his custom technology feed with niche communities and an art feed, etc. If the user can name and choose which communities are added, he can check at a glance, like with the all feed, for the niche communities tailored to his tastes.

I see "active", "last 6 hours", etc as filters as opposed to feeds if that makes sense.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

The feature has been announced to have been funded a while ago, not sure when it will arrive, but I personally also think that this is going to be a game changer.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Summit can do this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit&hl=en_US

They call it a "multi-community"