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™""""

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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As @Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just how much biomass does a subthread really need?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    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.

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