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.
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cabbage@piefed.social 5 hours agoDid it have niche communities that had successfully moved over, but that were not featured on the front page?
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
It had some, yeah. 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.
mrdown@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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 4 hours 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.