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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)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean [email protected] ? Yeah that's there, I think when it was announced a lot of people disparaged it bc the community is on a pro-MAGA server, looks like the announcements were even removed (details).

One problem with an "alternative" general community is that, say, punk plays a big part of some people's identity and life philosophy but they may not identify as "alternative".

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

Yeah I saw that the thread had been deleted but before that, something gave me the impression that it was going to get remedied or moved to another instance. Pretty disappointing to hear that seems to just be the end of that, to say the least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

@[email protected] and @[email protected] (can't ping Alice as my instance defederates HC), would you want to move a general alt community elsewhere? @[email protected] , would you like to help building the community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Nah, we just rebooted [email protected] and have several daily posters now, I'd rather build on that than move and start all over again. Besides, there's a lot of "alt" stuff that doesn't really speak to me, so if everyone moved I'd just stay behind and wait for it to come to life again. (In fact, being alone on a dead community is kinda goth, lel.)

Hey, if you're looking for communities to merge, [email protected] and [email protected] are both mildly alive, and their mods have been absent for a year or two.

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

Thanks Alice has worked really hard on her community and there's loads of posts there, so it's not moving. Starting from scratch would throw that away. 😊