Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy!
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 16 hours agoAt first I nodded my head to this since it adds user volume in one place, but this is the Fediverse, where no one set of mods or communities gets to “own” anything.
People can subscribe to both, so to me, the “best to not duplicate” doesn’t just not fit, but it’s the antithesis of the purpose.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 12 hours ago
I don’t think having functional, active, somewhat niche communities is the antithesis of the Fediverse’s purpose.
If we had 1M MAU, that would be different.
It’s a common complaint for many people looking to switch off reddit that niche communities are lacking and having multiple low engagement communities without any clear differentiation is confusing.
Multiple comms is a good thing, but you also need to make it easy for uses to quickly understand what the difference between two communities is.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, encouraging a large community driver like Silksong to create a community IS the way to grow niche communities, not the reverse.