There’s an Aztec city building game called Tlatoani. It’s in early access, but has enough meat on the bone that it’s one of my goto games.
Out of curiosity I checked Steam DB for active player numbers. I have discovered at any given point I am 10% to 25% of the given player base BY MYSELF. I am 1 of 4 people playing this game right now in the world. With the prevalence of the internet I always assume whatever weird bullshit you’re into there’s at least a thousand people talking about it; making memes outsiders could never comprehend. It’s actually novel to fly under the radar for once.
What do you do that doesn’t have a community associated with it?
There are dedicated communities on Lemmy to these things – and they’re pretty quiet. Post new content there and engage in conversations and be the change you want to see.
Already tried. No community exists for my car. So I created one and tried to convince some redditors to join me and they basically gave me the finger (and then a mod deleted my post.) Gave up and abandoned the community. I don’t want to waste time screaming into the void. There aren’t enough 350Z owners on Lemmy to even get a basic conversation started.
Same reason why my radio station, [email protected] is failing before I’ve even launched it. There aren’t enough DJs on Lemmy, so I have no staff, which means there’s no one to play something on air. I’ve been reaching out via PMs to anyone I can find. It’s been a 3 month search to no avail. I was supposed to launch yesterday.
Lemmy is just too small, plain and simple.
Fair, but you can still post about it in the more general cars communities, no?
Even Reddit didn’t start with all these specialized subs. It started without subs at all, actually. And then the big general subs were born, and only later the niche subs were born because the signal to noise ratio in the big ones got too bad. Post your content here in the general communities until the signal to noise ratio warrants a dedicated offshoot.
This advice generalizes. There aren’t enough fans of each sports team here yet to have team specific communities, but there are enough fans of each sport to have general communities for that sport. Branch later.
If I ask a specific question regarding my specific car in a general car community, I’m going to get generalized answers. That doesn’t do me any good. I need a specific community for my specific car, populated with people who actually own that specific vehicle.
Lemmy has radio?
Yes it’s something I’ve been working on all summer. A radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Anyone can be a DJ or help build playlists for rotation. Problem is that I can’t find anyone willing to do that.
That said, I do plan on launching soon, with or without DJs. Check out the community for updates: [email protected]
I’ll definitely check it out, very cool!