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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[–] neme@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This what I think at the moment, even if there might not be that much demand for the community yet:

It is better to try start building it now if you are on smaller instance to fight centralization

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah definitely...

[–] neme@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe !photography@fedia.io works better, since it seems to be also showing Mastodon and Pixelfed posts?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, cool one, I didn't know about it. Seems quite active too, thanks!

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week 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?