Stop whining. Do it yourself.

https://lemmy.world/post/21447799

Stop whining. Do it yourself. - Lemmy.World

> 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™””“”

The problem isn’t that they won’t create them, there’s insufficient biomass to populate them.

If I want to talk about a 5-year-old video game with myself, I’ll just open Notepad.

Just how much biomass does a subthread really need?

Well, the sub in question had one person copying the articles from Reddit and me commenting on them. That was decidedly too few :)

Philosophically, I think you need enough engagement that there’s chat at least a few times a week in the group. Anything less than that and it’s closer to a search engine result than a community.

As @[email protected] said in a comment here, we can use general communities to find “biomass needed” to populate small communities

Although I can see the point you are making, and I agree to some extent. I still think it is better to try

@Zombiepirate - Lemmy.World

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I totally agree, and I did try. It was just some kind of soul reposting things from Reddit and me.
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