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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world (now moving to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is !jrpg@lemmy.zip, it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, or !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. 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.

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[–] muelltonne@feddit.org 6 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I think that there are a few things to consider here:

Lemmy has a smaller userbase than Reddit so that does mean that we can't have all those niche communities. There are simply not enough people active here to fill a community like /r/writerdecks
If you are starting a community, you have to do the effort to post there. Nobody is posting to a dead community with 2 subscribers and 1 post from 7 month ago. Be active, be kind and post stuff. People will come if that stuff is good. This will help all of Lemmy - federation is great, but you want to read cool stuff and that is bringing people here
There might be room for ... an algorithm. We currently can sort the global feed by "Active", "New", "Last 6 hours" and so on, but there might also be an opportunity for an option like "popular posts in smaller communities".

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (7 children)

We currently can sort the global feed by “Active”, “New”, “Last 6 hours” and so on, but there might also be an opportunity for an option like “popular posts in smaller communities”.

The "Scaled" filter?

[–] muelltonne@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Oh, I totally missed that one - so ... maybe somehow highlight the scaled filter better or provide a better explanation what it exactly is doing?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

or provide a better explanation what it exactly is doing?

I know most people won't go outside of the site to figure this stuff out, but for reference: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

It's basically the Hot ranking but divided by the number of active users in the community, Subscribed+Scaled is my favorite feed

[–] muelltonne@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the explanation :)

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