[spartanatreyu]

Everything kind of fractured apart and now those niche communities are building up again elsewhere.

Discord has a lot (looking at my discord I see, gaming, programming, clothing/fashion/aesthetic, language, dnd, music, keyboard / hardware, dance, etc... communities).

I've noticed a lot of the major reddit communities have matching communities in the fediverse, specifically the ones with old reddit-like UIs. (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, mander.xyz, etc...).

I've also noticed a lot of web-standards / browser developers and some gamedevs moved to twitter-style fediverse sites (e.g. mastodon.social, indieweb.social, infosec.exchange, hackyderm.io, floss.social, fosstodon.org, etc...).

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I think the fediverse is working well for the niche communities for three reasons:

- Having that little bit more initial friction to learning how the fediverse works has made it better since it keeps out the low quality spamming users.

- Niche communities can only grow organically within their own spaces (since forcing them makes them seem inauthentic).

- The big plus of the fediverse is being able to follow/interact with users/communities across the boundary of being on another website. So it doesn't matter if a niche community you want to follow springs up on another website, you can follow them and participate from the website you already use.

For example: the old reddit-like communities that I follow (listed above) appear in a single feed in my programming.dev account (since that's the first one I joined), and the old twitter-like communities I follow appear in a single feed in my mastodon.social account (since that's the first twitter-like one I joined).

[AbstractH24]

Is there a resource for finding these fedverse?

[spartanatreyu]

It's kind of like making an email account. First you pick where you want your email to be (gmail, outlook, proton, etc...), then make your account.

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If you're brand new, pick where you want your account to live.

- General worldwide website: mastodon.social

- or pick a website by topic: https://fedi.directory

- or pick a website by locality: https://fediverse.observer

Your starting global feed will have different users/posts based on which website you pick.

Check out which one you want then make an account there.

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Now choose some people to follow:

- Either in the global feed on your website

- or choose people by topic: https://fedi.directory

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Then people who you follow will share posts from other people, and you can choose if you want to follow them too.