Have not conversed with the rest of the team, but, personally, I’m not opposed persay to AI, but would certainly put much higher value on hand made banners – I feel like AI lacks creativity, style? If that makes sense, but also If someone can make a decent banner with it I’m not opposed. Size wise, I’d probably shoot for something like 1000x500, though of I can downscale stuff as needed. 2:1-3:2 ish, other communities have banners to see (two ones I’ve quickly found is !green and !mechanicalkeyboards)
A lot of these aren't exactly "niche", but afaik none of them exist on lemmy yet
Edit: for some reason, a bunch of these that actually do exist weren't showing up in search unless I specifically searched for "!community". I've gone back through and added links to them here.
A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities is also a nice tool for finding new places....
Now taking submissions for a new banner image!
If anyone is interested in creating a new banner image for the comm, please submit it in the comments of this post!
What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse?
Personally i'm looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.