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[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It was active enough that there was new content every day. Checking multiple times a day I’d see the same stuff but I saw that as a positive that kept me from wasting too much time.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Did it have niche communities that had successfully moved over, but that were not featured on the front page?

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I just always had the impression I didn't understand what I was looking at and now it's gone and I'm genuinely curious.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My community is a niche one Albumartworksheaven. It took me a month to have more followers on digg than here in 6 months. My community was featured twice

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oooh, neat community! Joined!

I guess that's one benefit of a smaller site - if you put down the effort in it, it stands out more. But community discovery is absolutely a challenge.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I don’t think many of the niche communities really had time to thrive, since people were trying to build up a lot of the main ones. I think some were starting to just get traction, which could be a reason why they chose now, stopping before it really got away from them.

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It had some, yeah. Maybe not “successfully moved” per-say but they were there. I never really got a chance to dig into them very much but I was a member of the /spongebob community and it had some sincere activity from people who wanted to grow it into something fun and engaging.