• @[email protected]
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    8 hours ago

    There is still not enough people for niche topics.

    It is the eternal struggle as more users come niche communities will improve or even exist, but general communities will get worse.

      • @BURN
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        17 hours ago

        They kinda do though. I can’t post about my gaming niche in a gaming community because it’s barely tangential, and still haven’t found 99% of the communities I had on Reddit.

        Lemmy is good for /all, and that’s about it tbh

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          17 hours ago

          Which kind of gaming niche is it ? Are the subreddit mods open to creating a post presenting Lemmy as an alternative?

          • @BURN
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            17 hours ago

            Simracing. We don’t relate to typical gaming at all. It’s all high end hardware, all very specialized and typically doesn’t interest normal gamers.

            Subreddit mods are very against Lemmy or anything that moves them off the platform. The absolute butthurt rage for weeks after the protests proved that one right.

            Mostly I just don’t see this platform as an alternative for medium sized communities. It works for large ones where there’s enough people that after a move if 25% transfer then you still have a lively community. Or for small communities where you can get 70%+ to move. But those mid size, 100k users on average communities trying to get them to move just ends up with a ghost town here.