what are some dying niche lemmings? (lemmy.ml)

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Attempts to create niche communities that ended up being the owner talking to himself and receiving 2 upvotes. (niche coms appear to be gaining steam)

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[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think anyone disagrees with that...I just think it's important to be realistic here. For niche communities to thrive the way they thrive on reddit, it's just a numbers game. They have the numbers. Lemmy doesn't. Lemmy is about two orders of magnitude short of the numbers of users needed to achieve the critical-mass / synergy that would be needed to make most niche communities actually viable here. And even then...it'll probably take even more users than that because the very nature of lemmy is fragmentation/distributed - so having the total numbers still might not be enough.

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