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Trying to build critical mass for small communities

Hi, I'm focusing on generating content for a few communities that I feel can be successful and have less content than I expected:

!cassettefuturism@lemm.ee: a genre of retrofuturism based on the 70's and 80's (more info)
!awwnverts@lemmy.world: cute invertebrates
!weirdwheels@lemmy.world: weird vehicles (with wheels)
!comicstrips@lemmy.world: self-explanatory

EDIT: I did not create any of those communities

I would encourage anyone to participate if you like those topics.

Do you know any other niche-but-not-too-niche communities in which we could focus efforts?
Please, don't post very long lists, I'm already subscribed to almost 300 communities and the idea is to focus on a few ones.

Thanks!

EDIT: Added descriptions for each community.

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There's the entire instance of sffa.community. It stands for Science Fiction Fantasy Alliance. I'd love to see it get off the ground. Right now it's mostly just Brando Sando stuff. I've been considering maybe starting a community called SFFA Gaming, but I don't have any content to actually contribute.
- Posted one there, good luck!
  
  I'm in. Thanks
  
  Thanks! Great piece!

More hobbits are always welcome at: !hobbit_art@hobbit.world

I've just created
!teaching@lemmy.world and
!education@lemmy.world
Both can be very active communities once people are there

Cassettefurutism!! Man that one was so active on Reddit. The other one I miss is WeirdWings.

I'll chime in with the communities in my new instance 4wd.social:
!4x4@4wd.social : pretty self explanatory. 4x4 related discussion.
!overlanding@4wd.social : discussion dedicated to overlanding / 4wd touring
!dji_drone@4wd.social : DJI drone related discussion, photos or videos captured

I've been trying to participate in !superautopets@lemmy.world. It had a decent sized community on Reddit and it would be great to have some weekly discussion here.
- Good luck!
  I don't have much to contribute to that community... I had never heard of that game :/.
  
  It's a fun time-killer or toilet game, seemingly simple but with surprising depth for what it is. It's free to try, if you're interested.

I created !oldphotosinreallife@lemmy.world, which has over 300 subscribers, but limited interaction.
- Posted one there, good luck!
  
  Thanks! Plenty good will and community on Lemmy :-)

!Formuladank@lemmy.world Only a handful of people posting.
- Good luck!
  I'm personally focusing on non-meme communities, but that's just personal preference.

I'd really love to see /c/geocaching@lemmy.world get off the ground
- If you format the link as !community@instance.tld it will be a clickable link (in this case it would be !geocaching@lemmy.world).

Isn't !comicstrips@lemmy.world doing pretty good? I see it reaching top of All quite often
- Indeed, that's one of the most promising ones... and it still only has 2 or 3 posts a day :/.
  
  I mean, people have lives too I guess :)

I've created and have been the only curator (so far) of !humanscale@communick.news. My idea is to have a good set of ideas around the idea of human scale development, "smol tech" and anything that can give some relief to hyperglobalist and soulless worldview that is so prevalent today.

!fantasy@lemmy.ml and !squaredcircle@kbin.social are my personal niches, so if anyone's interested please come over and get stuck in
- Posted one on !fantasy@lemmy.ml
  
  I tuuuurn around and look at what I see!

This seems like a good place to ask, but is there a handwriting or cursive community on the go yet? It's my latest obsession, so I could see myself helping grow it.
I've searched around, but haven't had any luck finding an existing communities
- The two I see on a quick search are empty:
  !calligraphy@lemmy.ml
  !chinesehandwriting@lemmy.ml
  You can ask on !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
  What I found is a few related to fountain pens:
  fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu (moved from fountainpens@sopuli.xyz)
  fountain_pens@lemmy.ml
  fountainpens@lemmy.world
  
  Thanks, I really appreciate you taking a look! I did already find those, but I don't know anything about writing with ink. 😬
  I'll keep looking, as you suggest. Once I get a little more settled I may even start my own.

Subbed! Though I'm not the contributing type, I love to see these kinds of posts

Thank you, 3 out of 4 interested me so I subbed :-)
I got only one on my own server, low posting, starting out with the legendary Gir "Moebius" works !moebius_art@lemmy.mindoki.com and I'm working on one for "artistes en herbe" (artists on uh grass? It means us, people who like and try and have fun creating)
Cheers and long live Lemmy and the fediverse!

I had been trying to grow these two:
kbin.social/m/Animemes / /c/Animemes@kbin.social
kbin.social/m/animeirl / /c/animeirl@kbin.social
They were reasonably popular on reddit, 3m+ and 2m+ subscribers respectively. I started posting once per day to each of them soon after I migrated over, though my meme stash has mostly run dry at this point (I do have a bit more to post to animeirl). There are some regular posters in animeirl now, but animemes has been pretty dead since I stopped posting. I've also promoted them in the usual places.
There's also my own community, kbin.social/m/specializedinstances / /c/specializedinstances@kbin.social, for cataloging topic/location focused instances. It works fine as a solo project, but I wouldn't mind having more suggestions of things to add to the list.

!whatisthiscar@lemmy.world - Post pictures of spotted cars that you cannot identify.
!oldcars@kbin.social - for classic car enthusiasts
!swimming@lemmy.world - self-explanatory
!idiotsincars@lemmy.world - also self-explanatory, a bit more active than the others. Submit your dashcam footage here of idiot drivers
I dont own/mod any of these but would like to see more people active in them

Give it time

Can you explain what these things are? The only one I understand is obviously comic strips. Also, join us at !tinnedseafood@lemmy.world Also, how do I make that a link?(Thanks!) (Or type italics, bold, or strikethrough here on lemmy?)
- My bad, you're right, I should have added a small description (done!):
  !cassettefuturism@lemm.ee: a genre of retrofuturism based on the 70's and 80's (more info)
  !awwnverts@lemmy.world: cute invertebrates
  !weirdwheels@lemmy.world: weird vehicles (with wheels)
  !comicstrips@lemmy.world: self-explanatory
- Also, how do I make that a link? (Or type italics, bold, or strikethrough here on lemmy?)
  Lemmy uses Markdown, though not all apps handle the full syntax yet (I know sync struggles with Spoiler and Code for example).

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