Hey welcome! Sorry for the people acting like they know everything and being a bit rude about it.

So they are right, they don’t exist, but I can tell you that there is a demand! Trust me I run some niche communities and there are people here.

The catch is that you will need to lower your expectations. Lemmy for sure follows the 90-9-1 rule. For any community you’ll have 90% lurkers, 9% will comment, and only 1% will post. This means a couple of things.

First, that you have to be the change you want to see. If you want a community that’s awesome! Lemmy will allow you to grow it! However, for quite a while you may be the only one posting, and it feels awkward. It will pay off eventually though.

Second, to help mitigate that, I would combine your separate communities into one. We dont have the numbers to justify 3 niche ones. 3 niche will be lost forever, but one general could be successful. Then if people think it’s time to shard one off to its own community, that’s the time to do it. Until then, use tags to help separate the posts.

I wish you luck on your journey! !communitypromo@lemmy.ca is a good place to start, along with !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

The NSFW ones might work better on fedinsfw.app

Please create them and populate them, I look forward to see what you have to share. Maybe I will also share some thoughts once in a while :)

Edit: actually, an NSFW world building community seems to exist already: https://fedinsfw.app/c/worldbuilding

There are very few lemmy communities with enough participants to be anything like reddit. There is or was a NSFW lemmy server (lemmynsfw.com) though, which might be an ok place for your NSFW stuff, if it’s still around. I’m not trying to be discouraging of unwelcoming but Lemmy is simply not a bustling metropolis like some of us might wish for. It’s more like some random lost souls wandering around in the desert, with a few slightly populated areas here and there. Ask Lemmy, where you are right now, is one of the denser such pockets and there’s not much going on here either.

Anyway, welcome to Lemmy. There are things to like about it but it’s more like sitting around a campfire with a few other people, than being in a dance club. Join us and toast a few marshmallows.

they don’t exist.

lemmy is not a copy of reddit.

welcome to lemmy where none of those exist and there won’t be enough user population to get anything moving for a while.

but hi!