I went to lemmy.world, the biggest community, searched the community list for my various interests, and picked one to subscribe to from there, generally favoring the largest community for it. Then I subbed to !newcommunities@lemmy.world. That's how I did and do community discovery.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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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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Feel free to sub to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca , new posts are going to happen there
I am, totally forgot that I was. I do remember it's smaller than !newcommunities@lemmy.world and sometimes gets duplicates, which is why I think I thought I did not bother.
Makes sense!
I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can’t be filled until we reach a higher population.
100% agree. And I know it first hand with !journaling@sh.itjust.works: it could be much larger as one just easily see when comparing with the similar reddit sub, but we don't share the same user base to begin with ;)
As it is I don't think we need more communities. We need more active members and simpler way to promote specific content. Like I said in my other answer, for me the real issue is there: for something that is proud to be 'federated', linking anywhere from anywhere should be rock solid and dead simple. It is not, far from it. If it's even doable. Heck, even within my own community: I don't know how I can safely put links to any previous thread or message in a thread that I'm sure will work for anyone clicking them no matter the instance they're logged in.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious and it's already a thing? But I think getting that ability to link stuff would be a huge win for Lemmy, no mater the number of active members ;)
As said in the other comment, you can use https://lemmyverse.link/
A bit hacky, but still works
Yep, and like I said it's good it exists but it should not be needed ta all, it's way too hacky. I really think the ability to link between components (no matter where and what they are) in what presents itself as a fediverse ~~should~~ edit: ought to work without hack.
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For !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it's a big enough category that it should be more active than it is. The corresponding subreddits for JRPGs and retro gaming aren't super far apart at 255k and 404k subscribers respectively, but !retrogaming@lemmy.world is more active by orders of magnitude here on Lemmy.
I've started to focus more on discussion prompts in the community as news isn't enough; the JRPG community has been an excellent news aggregator for over a year now (although it's a slow news time for the genre currently). I'd love to hear from other niche communities about what's worked and what hasn't to drive engagement.
I might be completely wrong here, but could it partly being an issue of people not thinking about searching the term JRPG?
I’d love to hear from other niche communities about what’s worked and what hasn’t to drive engagement.
There are a few other threads in this community on how to drive engagement. Feel free to open another one if you feel like it!