I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.
I will comment more as I think of them.
I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.
I will comment more as I think of them.
I run a regional instance (lemmy.pt, for Portugal and the Portuguese language) and I definitely feel the hardships of Lemmy being so small. It’s very hard to grow more specialized communities when the overall pull of the platform is so small, since most people looking for ““niche”” topics would rather stick to the bigger communities on Reddit and whatnot instead of opting for the tiny thing going on the Fediverse.
Well thanks for your service at keeping a regional instance running! It may not be my region, but I’m glad it exists at all!
I hope it eventually becomes a “if you build it, they will come” type situation. It will just take time and growth.
Yeah, hopefully! The instance exists since 2021 and we’re still small, even with the 2022 Reddit blackout. A lot of people registered then, but quickly realized Reddit was still bigger and went back. It’s a shame, but I’ll keep it running for as long as I can.
Even on reddit, PT subs are hard to get active. There is /r/Portugal, literaciafinanceira and maybe devpt. I think you are stretching too thin.
Have you thought of just doing 1 sub on Lemmy.pt, and just add [tags] in the title or something? Once Lemmy.pt has enough users, you could slowly open more.
Yeah, sure. That’s because we’re also fairly small and Reddit isn’t really that popular, especially among older folks.
Regarding the 1 sub, I don’t think the issue is having too many communities, seeing as !portugal@lemmy.pt serves as a main hub and has pretty loose restrictions already. The issue is more of the overall visibility of Lemmy paired with the low usage of Reddit-like mediums in Portugal.