[Meta] Should we move to !general@lemmy.world? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/casualconversation@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

As you may have noticed, I'm trying to revive this community. However, I noticed that is actually overlaps quite a lot with !general@lemmy.world

Do you think we should move there, so that we can have more content and activity on one place?

The hardest part to get a community started is now, when you need to build traction, and I think it makes sense to use the larger userbase of !general (10k subs vs 4k here)

Let me know what you think!

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[-] Chriszz@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely not. Looking at the content there, it’s quite literally general content.

Much of it isn’t what I’d consider casual conversation material so this sub still fulfills a distinct purpose. It’s more personal here imo.

While there may be overlap now, I think if that sub lemmy grows a lot in the future it will become much less focused.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago

Totally agree with this and I also think Casual Conversation is just a better, more inviting name for the purposes of the community.

If I wanted to start a conversation I wouldn't be inclined to post in a sub called "General", despite the name being technically all-inclusive. Calling it Casual Conversation gives any hesitant poster reassurance that other subscribers of the sub really just want to hear casual small talk.