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oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I have the same issue with Reddit, there’s a middle size good quality subreddit about my specific job which is the best place on the internet to see news and discussions about it in one place. It helps me increase and test my knowledge a lot.

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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Is there such a community here? Maybe you could start one.

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- Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I tried that. No one ever really joined. I tried posting content, and no one ever engaged with it.
  
  Guess theres not many childcare educators on Lemmy as the reddit community is always super active.
  
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  - evulhotdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I honestly wouldn’t expect to see a lot of that, being that in my anecdotal evidence the majority of K-12 educators would likely fall under a more generalized population, than what lemmy currently is, which is generally very technical and STEM oriented.
    
    All the other subs on Reddit didn’t exist until general population got pulled in with memes, and started partaking in communities there. Lemmy is just like Reddit was, when Reddit was young.
    
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  - Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Did you try promoting it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !parenting@lemmy.world ?
    
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- oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yes there is, but very little subscribers and no activity. I think it’s too niche to have the required critcal size with the current size of the Lemmy user base.
  
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pandapoo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
News, tech, left-wing politics, memes, anime, and porn are Lemmy’s biggest community types.

I know a lot of different subtopics fit under each, and I’m sure I left a few out, but my point is that there are a lot of mid-sized, and especially smaller (by Reddit standards), subreddits that Lemmy is no where near being remotely useful as a replacement for yet.

I have community subreddit collections that I don’t see Lemmy replacing anytime soon. I mean, I hope they do. I still check every so often, and yes, communities for them exist and they have maybe a few dozen users, but not enough to even just suck it up and deal.

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