Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on [email protected] asking people which community there were missing.
I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can’t be filled until we reach a higher population.
There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.
I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on [email protected] (now moving to [email protected] ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.
One example is [email protected], it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.
Similar with [email protected], or [email protected]. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.
Discovery still needs to be improved. And we need more active members, that would be delusional to say otherwise.
But I also think a unified linking mechanism between instances, communities, threads and to a specific message in any thread no matter the instance the reader is clicking the link from would help encourage people to link a lot more. I don’t link as much as I would like to mostly because of that reason. And more links would also help discoverability of interesting content.
You can use https://lemmyverse.link/
A bit hacky, but still works
Yes, I know it exists (thx to you, btw ;) but it’s still a hack and it’s far from being intuitive. Too many options are offered to anyone that just clicked a link and is now facing options and some odd delay before the link works. It’s good to have it, but it should not be needed at all to begin with ;)
Instance-agnostic links have been implemented and will come for version 1.0: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987
In the meantime, that’s probably the best we have.