Can recommend. Sometimes it does really well, sometimes it doesn't. Its worth a try anytime anyways
New user here. Where should I create my community? Are there servers or groups or something that I should review first? I don't know the difference between a server and .world or .ml or whatever.
stop lying to yourself. lemmycels only wants linux and american politics
Making a community also implies moderating it, doesn't it? I would understand that there are people who just want to see and post things they like and not have to be aware of banning users or deleting unwanted posts.
I say that because I am part of those people, moderating content is hard.
I see this response all the time "create your own if you want to see niche communities and Reddit communities migrate here." Well, if I have the bloody time to moderate, or even if I do, will there be many people? And if there are many people, do I have the time to moderate? What if there are mod bickering and drama?
The question is time. Does anyone else have the time to moderate and put up with BS inevitable with most communities?
I've been asking for a personal finance community for a while. The only US-based one I've found is on .ml, which...ew. I haven't made one because I do not have the time to mod a big, popular sub like that one will hopefully become.
Buuuuut I got tired of waiting for someone else to do it so I made it: https://lemmy.world/c/personalfinance_us@fedia.io
I'm sure it will be a shitshow but at least I tried.
This is the lifecycle of internet forums
"I'm sick of this place, I'm going somewhere new!" > "This place is deserted" > "Let's diversify and get more users" > "There are more users but they are all posting content I'm not interested in" > "I'm sick of this place, I'm going somewhere new!"
I've been through at least half a dozen such cycles, it's just a normal part of life when you live vicariously through an ethernet cable. Lemmy will grow, get old, go to shit, and die, and half the population will move somewhere else. Probably Pylon.
Thanks! I'm currently going through my hobbies and I'm gonna start posting and subbing to all of them.
You're right, I should be posting more if I want engagement.
Well, I've been trying to put some content on !fgc@lemmy.world and !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social, but there's been almost no engagement. I can't imagine it'd be worth even trying to start communities for even more niche topics than that.
Clicking the "Create a Community" button doesn't magically spawn an audience of people who share my hobbies and want to post about them.
You just reminded me to post in this new community I joined recently, so thank you.
I don't think there are any" rant" communities?
Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.
I too also wouldn't want to mod it, but I think it'd be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.
The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.
For example, a user ranting about "womens pants without pockets" would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.
The general discussion doesn't really cut it, because it's too nice and polite and weird angry rants don't really fit in there.
The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they'll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they're willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.
I will not whine about the lack of this niche community, because both c/Indiana and c/Indiana@midwest.social exist, but boy do I wish they were even close to as active as r/Indiana was when I was on Reddit.
There is just not a good place to discuss state politics that I can find and I learned a lot through discussion.
Then post into the void until some other like-minded degenerate finds you. You need to create the meeting point!
What are you talking about all of you here man! Spending a sec of your time on a community about a subject that you are interested is a really big task for you? That's lame and lazy and shows lack of any vision
You should already brainstorming to make communities more innovative and better than reddit
Not for free.
For someone whose major gripe is whining you sure seem to do a lot of it.
I take offense to it because you're suggesting that the problem is us, and not the system which resulted in empty communities
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