To be honest, Lemmy at this point is too small for such niche communities to work out. I wished it were different, I really want Lemmy to succeed. I comment and vote all the time and post sometimes. I've also switched instances a couple of times, because that's the way the cookie crumbles.

I kinda love askhistorians, because sometimes really cool discussions follow from asking them weird questions. I know a historian IRL and talking to him about history is kinda weird. For most things I ask it's all about the he said she said bullshit. Meaning we only have one or two sources on the subject which may or may not be trustworthy. Putting the sources into context, following their trails, looking at who corroborated them and what the relation was. It's all very complicated and we either take some weird dude's story at face value, or it didn't happen at all and we know nothing. But other times I ask questions and the man gets really triggered, he goes on this full on lecture mode (even though he hasn't been a teacher for 10 years). I just kinda zone out and nod along and he gets his rocks off teaching history to ignorant heathens such as myself.

So I genuinely love the concept, but I feel like there are just too little of those kinds of people on Lemmy. Which leads to questions being unanswered or without any real argument starting up. This makes the sub not as engaging and thus it dies out.

Even when a large crowd like the Silksong people come in and try to make a sub happen on Lemmy it doesn't work out and dies. I wish I knew what we could do to fix that, because if I can do anything to make it happen, let me know.