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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 2 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] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I play a fair amount of stuff, some mainstream enough to post here, some not. But genre-wise I'd say my biggest favorites are fighting games and versus puzzle games.

[email protected] exists, and I do post there occasionally. But the games I play (Skullgirls, Them's Fightin' Herds, Under Night In-Birth) are the niche-within-a-niche, I've drifted off from the wider mainstream FGC.

Versus puzzle games... I'm the guy who been very disgruntled over the fact that the genre as a whole is dead and buried. There's just not much of a community for these games anywhere anymore.

Last year I published a video essay about how Sega's mismanagement slowly killed Puyo Puyo. I did post that one to a few communities here, because "In-depth video essay about a game you've never played but will still find interesting by the end of this video" is a genre that can fit into a general space.

But that kind of video essay is the only type of content that I think I could post here. I don't expect anyone to take an interest in competitive highlights, coaching, analysis, etc. Last week we got some more news about Sega screwing up again, but that's still not something I'd expect to generate discussion here.

It's not just how niche the games themselves are, but the distinction between the type of content that fits a general space versus content only hardcore fans will even understand, let alone take an interest in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Somehow [email protected] has also absorbed puzzle games there. Not where I'd think to look but okay.

If you made a puzzle game community I'd totally follow and post whenever I see one.

Sadly I do not really engage with video essays because… ugh, video, I'd rather read an article. Shame, because I wish I could say "I'll engage with this high quality content!" but truth is I have some I reject on personal tastes too. But I promise there are people who will, even if it is only a few. Speaking as someone trucking on with some communities of like… one other person, and I am lucky to have even gotten them because I was screaming at the void for awhile now.