there’s no communities for my niche interests!!!

more like “i want a ready-made community where other people already putting effort into posting cool and intersting stuff, and all I want to do is sit on my ass and shower posts generously with “”“muh upvotes™””“”

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I wish instead that people would post in the general communities first, then spin off into a new community if there is interest.

    Like, we don’t need a whole community for the new Dragon Age game or whatever, but we do have a games community that would benefit from the post. Then if there are 20 Dragon Age posts every day it could obviously support it’s own community.

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      1 month ago

      This. All of us Reddit Refugees (me included) fucked up when we arrived and put the cart before the horse. Lemmy is like a small town; you may simply not get all the specific communities you want, but there’s probably somebody with a similar enough interest that they’ll talk to you about the stuff you like, and they probably have things that you would like to talk about if you saw it. Higher-level categories should do fine unless and until a certain type of content starts to annoy other users by its sheer prevalence.

      As someone else said, Lemmy is the niche community.

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      1 month ago

      So true, we were trying to shape lemmy into reddit so much that we skipped few steps like this which even reddit had to go through.

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      Hey speaking of, while !games@lemmy.world is a great example, if you’re not finding similar communities for your interest, feel free to post over in !general@lemmy.world for what Zombiepirate’s describing.

      Hobby without a community around here? Just not really sure if an existing community is open to non-news posts? General’s got ya covered.