Our community !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz has for now everything beer, wine, cider... it didn't reach the point of creating another specific, niche community. So I totally get the niche interests aren't represented here yet and the number of homebrewers is big.
Still we get good engagement for lemmy and there are active people from industry, so I wouldn't call it exactly small.
If you really need/want to, use foreign coverage of it. Maybe BBC or other English world wide news will have something (DW, 24France).
You will get mostly unbiased info and it is usually more chill than the heated debates. I use this sometimes but for my country it doesn't cover much news.
It just gives you ideas what to do, you have to figure out/iron out the techniques. They are for each settup different so with any book/manual you have to tinker with it yourself.
There are night busses in my city, and there are loads of wild stories but maybe my favorite is this wholesome one:
So friends were returning from pub with guitars (some jam night) and didn't want to stop. Get to the bus and started playing again, few stops another guy with guitar gets on, joins them... So the trip went like all the people singing, players hops on and of on their stops and everyone have a good time returning from pubs.
When we did something like that on few hour long train ride some German girls really liked it, they didn't understand a word but they clapped after each song.
Our community !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz has for now everything beer, wine, cider... it didn't reach the point of creating another specific, niche community. So I totally get the niche interests aren't represented here yet and the number of homebrewers is big.
Still we get good engagement for lemmy and there are active people from industry, so I wouldn't call it exactly small.