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.
I can definitely see the value in this. Just to use !dcstudios@lemmy.world as an example, there’s still little enough activity as it is. And if they tried to create separate communities for every series and movie and cartoon like it was on Reddit, instead of just one community with not enough activity, there would be 10+ completely dead communities.
And on that note, I’m still keeping an eye out for this general alternative community that was being floated the other day. Because while it’s nice having communities specifically for punk, goth, industrial etc, I think that right now it would be even nicer to have a general purpose alt community where people can discuss anything from music to style to attitude.
Did anything happen on that regard? @Sergio@slrpnk.net @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al
You mean !gpral@hilariouschaos.com ? Yeah that’s there, I think when it was announced a lot of people disparaged it bc the community is on a pro-MAGA server, looks like the announcements were even removed (details).
One problem with an “alternative” general community is that, say, punk plays a big part of some people’s identity and life philosophy but they may not identify as “alternative”.
Yeah I saw that the thread had been deleted but before that, something gave me the impression that it was going to get remedied or moved to another instance. Pretty disappointing to hear that seems to just be the end of that, to say the least.
@CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al and @Sergio@slrpnk.net (can’t ping Alice as my instance defederates HC), would you want to move a general alt community elsewhere? @Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone , would you like to help building the community?
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Thanks Alice has worked really hard on her community and there’s loads of posts there, so it’s not moving. Starting from scratch would throw that away. 😊
Nah, we just rebooted !gothindustrial@lemmy.world and have several daily posters now, I’d rather build on that than move and start all over again. Besides, there’s a lot of “alt” stuff that doesn’t really speak to me, so if everyone moved I’d just stay behind and wait for it to come to life again. (In fact, being alone on a dead community is kinda goth, lel.)
Hey, if you’re looking for communities to merge, !punk@lemmy.world and !punk_rock@lemmy.ca are both mildly alive, and their mods have been absent for a year or two.