!obscureinstruments@sh.itjust.works has picked up traction much faster than I was expecting.
Makes me wonder what other niches are just waiting to be explored here.
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Makes me wonder what other niches are just waiting to be explored here.
Maybe create a post on one of the Ask communities
If I asked people what they wanted they'd say a faster horse
Not sure if the comparison works here, someone asked about a women community, and !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al got created
I thought you meant to just ask broadly what niches people wanted to see.
If I already have an idea for one and think I'll have enough content I'll just make it.
My point was more that even if you have an idea you can't be sure there are other people here interested in that topic
If I have an idea and enough content idgaf lol
What do I do when Taylor Swift goes quiet for a full year?! Ain't much to post about her. Satisfactory however has been great
She probably deserves a break after her latest tour!
She does but it makes a community quite the ghost town lol
Would you like to create a general popculturechat community on your instance? People regularly bring up that they would like more content on that topic
Honestly not opposed to it, where did the idea come from? So more than just music but for all pop culture?
I wouldn't stress about it. Communities don't have to be active all the time. When I remember the Dunder Mifflin (fandom for tv show The Office) sub back on r$ddit, it was always active, but it was the same limited number of arguments and jokes and catch-phrases over and over. It was kinda amusing, but also kinda braindead. Why not just wait until there's a new tour or album or other news?
I had a similar experience with !sumo@lemmy.world. The Japanese tournaments only happen every 2 months, so it's dormant now... instead of trying to "force" discussion, I'm just waiting for a couple more weeks where it'll be back to daily posting for the 15-day tournament. If I came across some awesome news or media I might post it but otherwise I'm not going to stress it.
Thanks for the insight honestly, that makes sense and I remember dunder Mifflin. If people can hang around for years for a show that old then I'm sure my community will be fine too
I love how I just casually run into mods and admins all the time here
!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is going well. @okokimup@lemmy.world is kindly helping with fashion posts atm and doing a fantastic job! Users are obviously really enjoying her posts I'm so grateful for her work
You makin me blush.
Good to hear!
Business as usual on
!Ask@lemm.ee is my favourite community! Really like the vibe there
Solid subscriber growth on !hardware@lemmy.world.
Weighted engagement metrics are also slowly improving. More niche community (monitors, laptops) are doing fine considering their specialized nature and relatively low MAUs in the whole Threadiverse.
It looks like growth has plateaued at 55K MAU (solid improvement over 45K from a few months ago), but I was hoping we would be trending towards 75K-100K MAU towards the end of the year.
but I was hoping we would be trending towards 75K-100K MAU towards the end of the year.
Let's see. At this point it's more about Reddit messing up than Lemmy Piefed Mbin improving
I forgot about my radio station.
Hello, I recently tried to find some outdoor communities but they all seem quite dead. And I don't know how to try and revive a community. Any tips?
Post there. Spread them out over days/weeks. I see too many people fill up a community in a burst making it only appear in feeds for a day.
I guess to revive a community:
- find something to post on a regular basis. e.g. on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world I post a weekly announcement about the upcoming Monsterdon movie viewing (with links and background info); LaurenceWolse posts 2-3 movie overviews a week, and there we have the basis for a moderately active sub.
- find another couple of people to help you out by posting regularly
- keep posting on this community's weekly thread and getting advice/inspiration from other posters here
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