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"You should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around." In other words, start from generalist communities, and create more specialized ones when there is a need. Do you agree? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur’s Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur’s Gate 3 you create a Baldur’s Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers’ tits mod, which shall get its own group.

Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This what I think at the moment, even if there might not be that much demand for the community yet:

It is better to try start building it now if you are on smaller instance to fight centralization

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I agree, but at the same time there is something as community building fatigue when you see another community getting most of the activity.

I stopped starting to grow [email protected] because of that when I saw that [email protected] was getting most of the posts.

Also hopefully by this week-end the LW and aussie.zone delay will be solved (more details on [email protected])

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I stopped starting to grow [email protected] because of that when I saw that [email protected] was getting most of the posts.

Do you think there's a technical reason for this? I wouldn't expect this considering we have https://lemmy-federate.com/

Maybe it's just the UX of Lemmy-UI preferring local communities?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's also the other case where you start a comm on a smaller instance, and then later on someone starts the same comm on l.w. and gets by default more activity >_<

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah definitely...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Maybe [email protected] works better, since it seems to be also showing Mastodon and Pixelfed posts?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh that's a great idea especially for a pictures community. That's actually making me think about moving [email protected] to fedia.io

Edit: I don't think I see any Mastodon or Pixelfed posts there? I see a lot of LW

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At this point just moving off .ml might be a reason in itself as there appears to be a large contingent of people who outright refuse to touch anything hosted there. Or maybe those are just a vocal minority, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Or maybe those are just a vocal minority, I don’t know.

Not sure. At this time, the .ml communities are still more active

So I guess some people want to move off .ml, but the majority just prefers to use the most active comms

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah I've definitely thought of that issue too lol (I didn't create that community), moving people is hard but maybe that doesn't matter cause the community is kinda dead anyways

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, cool one, I didn't know about it. Seems quite active too, thanks!