They will. My experience community building thus far is that if you can build up one anchor community to the point where people are organically sharing content and commenting, other adjacent communities will start to generate the same sorts of things with smaller subscriber bases because that anchor community is keeping people's eyes here. Just a question of time.

[–] eu@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking of sharing content, is there a way to crosspost around here yet?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, when you make a post look at the line where the 'save post' button is at the bottom of the entry. There will be two overlapping squares. That's the crosspost button.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Never noticed that. Do any apps feature it too?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Thunder does, but the body text is not automatically copied like in the web interface.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

On Eternity, I have the three dot menu above posts that has 'Crosspost' as an option.

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Edit: Didn't realise this was an year old comment, sorry.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I've only used jerboa but I can't seem to find a crosspost button. Every app is alpha at best though so I'm sure it will come.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm usually a lurker, but I decided to just go ahead and make one that I was missing. Something about personally wanting Lemmy to grow is motivating to me.

I made an XCOM community on Lemmy.world, and even though I'm the only one posting so far, it's fun to watch the subscriber count grow. Already at 50!

[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please definitely don't be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.

Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the "gaming in general" communities.

But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can't be beat. Hang in there, and you'll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Fingers crossed!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

May I suggest doing an informal poll of some sort to boost engagement? I'm not that familiar with XCOM, but it's a pretty big series with a lot of games, right? Maybe just a simple "which is your favorite XCOM game?" thread.

[–] Zippy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And if it is still going in Reddit, make a post and link that it is now in Lemmy.

[–] NAS89@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’m dying with the lack of baseball communication. The biggest Baseball and Atlanta Braves communities are pretty much dead and I really miss talking ball.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.

It's the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don't have a presence there.

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's a whole https://fanaticus.social/ instance for sports

[–] headie_sage@fanaticus.social 1 points 1 year ago

Shameless plug for !baseball@fanaticus.social (check out our sidebar for the team-specific communities). We've got the game bots ported over and are working on improving them and adding new features.

I agree with !matt@lemmy.world though, the Venn diagram of sports fans and tech-savvy lemmy pioneers is pretty small. You can help by posting and commenting to attract more users. More content == more users (eventually).

[–] cerevant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best thing you can do to help is to comment on threads. I know it feels weird to comment in an empty post, but it does tend to spur lurkers to respond.

[–] SwallowsDick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm part of things

[–] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phillies fan checking in. Agree. I have a community with a bot that posts game updates like Reddit (which is nice) but the game threads are mainly me posting once or twice and one or two other people with side off comments. No community engagement so to speak. Long way from the Reddit game threads of several thousand comments.

[–] morgan_423@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Feel your pain. I'm constantly thinking, what the hell do I have to do to get r/orioles to follow me over to Lemmy to grow the numbers? They are one of the only things left at Reddit that I regularly look at. But 99% of the mod and user base there just doesn't care about the the issue.

Conversely, that means that at least sports spaces are among the least bot-spammed places on Reddit. So there's that.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can just talk about Americas team then. That’ll unify everything, right? 😉

[–] Disgustoid@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was lamenting the lack of an NFL community here but no way in hell I'm joining a Dallas Cowboys community regardless of how much discussion it generates. 😆