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submitted 3 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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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[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

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 !photography@discuss.online because of that when I saw that !photography@lemmy.world was getting most of the posts.

Also hopefully by this week-end the LW and aussie.zone delay will be solved (more details on !meta@aussie.zone)

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

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 >_<

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah definitely...

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 months ago

I stopped starting to grow !photography@discuss.online because of that when I saw that !photography@lemmy.world 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?

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