I’ve been tooling around with ideas for an “Obscure Games Club” community. Before making it I’d love to gauge interest, maybe get 1 or 2 people to commit to a certain level of involvement, and get feedback on the setup. But I don’t actuallly know a good space to do that.
Most communities on the fedi are monuments to one passionate person talking to a brick wall, with the last post being sometime between 1 and 3 years ago. Perhaps less would peter out if the starting seed was more than one individual.
I can see problems with this idea. But I also see a lot of problems with the current way of doing things. It might be worth a shot.
If you go to most instances and sort by “top month” You’ll get a list of the demographic that frequents most of the fediverse: Late Gen X/Xennial IT professionals in “project lead” or “supervisor” roles. The problem is that for most mundane niche interests Reddit fills the role adequately enough, despite it being a centralized space. The fediverse is like the local Coffee shop of internet news/information aggregators: Tailored product, exquisite curation, but most people still go to Dunkin’ cause they make a reliable cup, it’s fast, and you’ll trip over them in some areas.
you want the fediverse to grow? Get Google to promote the fediverse as a Reddit Alternative. You may not like it, but that is the mountain that must be surmounted.