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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it'd foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of "normal people", that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they're interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I noticed there didn't exist a niche community that I'm passionate about so... I created it! It's like any other new platform, it just takes time.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really want to take this attitude but I just don’t have time to become a moderator.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

why do you doubt it? there are thousands of new people flooding in daily. set up the mags and post for engagement? sounds like a lot of work but I understand what you're missing, my communities are not here either, but I'm going to do my best to make a space for them.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It just takes time for these communities to form.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

On top of that, we can't expect communities to POOF into existence.

We have to be part of them to build them, which means making them if they don't exist yet as well as posting and commenting in the ones that do exist. I hope that people who are used to lurking on Reddit will go out of their comfort zone a bit and start to participate in fediverse communities so that we can build things up more quickly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yesterday lurkers are going to need to be today's commenters and posters!

I see y'all lurkin'
Not postin'

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You are being drafted. We are sending you out to colonize the fediverse!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm doing my part

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i was a reddit lurker for 10 years. i didnt even have an account. today i made my second comment here. hello world

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yea I was a prolific commenter but I think I only created maybe 6-8 posts in 14 years on reddit, and certainly never created a community. So I might have to step up. Regardless of reddit, I absolutely love the idea of the fediverse and the decentralized nature of it, so I really would like to see it succeed. It really does have to be the way forward on the internet to avoid corporate interests.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same here. The voice in the back of my head says "be the change you want to see in the world", then I'm like "nah that's too much work"...

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