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.
Oh that’s a great idea especially for a pictures community. That’s actually making me think about moving !deus_ex@lemmy.ml to fedia.io
Edit: I don’t think I see any Mastodon or Pixelfed posts there? I see a lot of LW
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.
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
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