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There is the Fediverse, and there is kbin.social. I'm not even sure how to see what niche communities are out in the Fediverse. You'd have to go through each instance to see what magazines/communities (these are referred to differently in different places) exist out there. Is there a or could there be a directory of sorts to list your magazine/community so that others can find it?
I feel confident in saying we should not be planning to host every single community on kbin.social.
There's a few directory searches I know of.
One is over on feddit.de. It only searches lemmy instances atm, though, and idk how or how well it's updated as things are made. It seems to go by community name, so for example "drawing" does not return sketching subs and the first result under "art" is Star Trek.
The other is lemmyverse.net, which seems to parse searches FAR better. With the drawback that neither of those recognizes anything on kbin yet.
It's helped me here and there and apart from the drawbacks like the first one's behavior, I wonder if my (and @Treedrake 's) trouble is a combination of my own interests being niche and most of the people engaging in those interests being on mastodon instead of here. Fediverse Party and Fedi Directory both tell me there are sizable resources for what I'm looking for, just not through a forum.
This severely limits lemmy as it can't interface with mastodon tweets/microblogs, and hinders me as well until I have the ability to follow tags and see them in a dedicated feed.
This is one of those circumstances where forum and blogging culture don't really mesh well. The audience is present but already busy with their own thing, and we're expecting a different form of interaction than they are.
It took a long time for niche communities to pop up on Reddit too, remember Reddit has been around a long time now. Back in the day, Digg was the shiznit and nobody knew about Reddit.
I created a place for model trains: @modeltrains / !modeltrains@kbin.social (on Lemmy, if that link doesn't work you should use the search button by your username to look up https://kbin.social/m/modeltrains).
To help deal with the existential dread, at least half of my Reddit subs were various cat subs, as well as subs for other cute animals, and I long for the day that I can get there again.
Congratulations! You get to help found those niche communities in a new place!
When I joined Kbin I created the communities I was most active in. Someone created my favorite community just before I did, so I instead requested to be added as a mod and I am now the most active poster there. I am the author of most of the posts there, and the number of subscribers is growing slowly but steadily. I think we just have to do what what's needed to make this the place we want it to be. A lot of us are going to have to go from lurkers to moderators, from occasional users to prolific posters. Things have to start somewhere. If we all just wait until someone else does what we expect, then we're all just stay waiting and nothing is going to happen.
Speaking of those large subs. Does anyone have the equivalent of world news, news, and games subreddits here?
I found a technology one, just need to grab those other ones. Links appreciated.