Well, niche communities can work if you get a big niche community to be on lemmy. For example, the F1 community was super huge and active in 2023, far outranking many other specific communities. However a lot of F1 people seem to have left lemmy in the off-season between 2023 and 2024.

I might be completely wrong here, but could it partly being an issue of people not thinking about searching the term JRPG?

I usually use scaled for my subscribed feed and it works decently. Recently was advised to try out “newest comments” sorting for the subscribed feed and I like that even more!

That is not the point, the point is that you can. You can curate your feed yourself instead of relying solely on an algorithm or a curation team

Still one of my favourite movies ever

I think Blaze’s point still is relevant: if you are posting a lot on communities that large-ish instances dont even know about, then your efforts will be harder. Ideally one could change something about that, for example use a local user account to pull in those communities into federation.

ITT: People who don’t understand jokes

They definitely paid someone to do this poster. A company like Marvel will not have some executive use an off-the-shelf AI to generate a poster himself. Someone got paid to create a poster, and that person did a bad job - no matter if it was a compositing error or an AI error.