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While larger, more general communities are thriving on the Fediverse - I'm missing out on the niche communities (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Treedrake@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Gaming, news, tech, general literature. All of these are somewhat thriving, with a steady influx of posts and comments. At the same time, the userbase is sorely lacking for more niche communities. In my case it'd be stuff like poetry, yoga, religion, linguistics, meditation. Or many other communities I'd doubt they'd form a larger userbase here, at least to the degree that it'd foster good discussions. Communities where there are a larger amount of "normal people", that are not tech-aware, and who have no interest in migrating off centralized corporate solutions. That just want a large space to discuss what they're interested in.

This for me at least, makes it hard to completely leave reddit (or even Facebook and their groups!). Do you think the fediverse will ever reach the point where this would become a non-issue?

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[–] missingno@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here. As frustrated as I've been with Reddit for years now, what kept me there was that it was really the only place to get tailored news and discussions on my special interests. I'm still not gonna go back to reddit, but I don't know what I do instead.

I tried to set up a few magazines myself, but it's pretty clear there aren't enough people on this platform for me to find anyone who shares common interests on the things I want to talk about.

Feel like I'm just gonna be a hermit out in the mountains out of the loop on everything.

[–] missingno@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also doesn't help that it's hard to even keep an eye on smaller magazines right now. As problematic as Reddit's algorithm was, one good thing it did was weight subs so that you'll still them on your frontpage, kbin does not appear to do this. Multireddits were also a very useful tool so I could bookmark a shared new queue for the ones I wanted to follow most closely, in a single tab I'd always keep open.

Hopefully these issues can be addressed.

[–] 50gp@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

popular posts having equally good chance to appear and stay in your subscribed feed no matter the size of the community is reddits best algorithm and it worked really well