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Yeah, there's a moderately active lemmy.ml community for Denver. By moderately active, I mean there's about a post or two every day and they tend to get 10-15 upvotes.
By contrast, the Denver subreddit gets about 15 posts an hour with popular posts having 2-600 upvotes. There are also highly active subreddits for surrounding areas such as Boulder, where popular posts garner 150 or so upvotes. I'm aware of 3 different attempts to create Lemmy communities for Boulder. The only one with ANY activity had a post 15 days ago that garnered 15 upvotes. The previous post is from 5 months ago.
I think what works better are whole instances dedicated to a local area. I know there's an instance based in Atlanta for Atlanta.
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However, the communities dedicated to local Atlanta news get posts maybe every 10 days or so. So it's still pretty low numbers of locals.