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.

  • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Otherwise, you’ll only attract people who are migrating from one service to another(and doing a 1:1 swap of their communities) and not reach the general audience. A lot of hobbies or communities I’ve joined were because of someone else mentioning it in a different but related community.

    I don’t see how we contradict each other. I didn’t say we shouldn’t create general communities. My point was that we don’t necessarily need to wait for a visible demand in a general community because it might never manifest itself for smaller things, although people might be silently looking for them.

    • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      We don’t really disagree. I think you should make the communities. But I also think they won’t grow until they’re being mentioned on the general community.