On Lemmy is it safe to create a community on a smaller scale when there are other communities already available of the same topic?

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s certainly not dangerous, but, every community could use more traffic around here, so it doesn’t make any sense to spread it out any thinner.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Eh, I’ll subscribe to all of them just the same.

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t personally think splitting a small audience makes sense, but if there is some reason you don’t like the existing group, that is different. Not sure why it would be unsafe, what are your concerns?

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  • Rob200@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Concerns would be, if a were to join any given Lemmy server and create for instance, another tech community, and possibly getting said community taken down for spam.

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    • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think that happens but it wouldn’t harm you. You could ask the mods of your server, though, right? It’s not a stupid question at all.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s more likely is that nobody will ever see or use your community.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s unlikely, but having a community be in hands of admins you trust is important. If you feel your community will be sufficiently unique in some way (even just moderation style) then go for it. Why not? I have.

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Safe, but it seems a bit silly. It’s not like there’s a huge amount of activity here as is.

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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it is absolutely fine. Most of the time the communities are on a .ml instance, or modded by the worst people imaginable.

  Make many communities and let the inferior ones die. This is good for Lemmy. Just don’t copy the same posts to your community, as it’ll fill the front page with duplicates, which is detrimental to Lemmy.

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  • Rob200@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I noticed a few duplicates in Lemmy search from time to time. Would definitely avoid doing that.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But check them first. There’s many dead communities on ml and way more on world. Make a new one for sure in those cases.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you’re posting relevant, quality & especially original content then it’s not spam. If you crosspost it to a bunch of communities on the same server that’s a little spammy, so maybe don’t do that, but I don’t think it’s spammy to crosspost to similar communities on other servers.

  Also consider defining the scope of your new community differently. It might be the same topic as another community, but is it more focused? more nuanced? what’s the niche you want to fill that the larger community doesn’t, or doesn’t dive deeply enough into?

  And finally manage your expectations. You might have to be the sole contributor for a year or more before you start seeing active participation from other users.

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Smaller communities generally have trouble growing. If you were around while Reddit was taking off, they had only a few subreddits to start, and they only created other subreddits when there was a large enough community to support it.

  I’d add content to existing community instead of starting a new one.

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• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I see it as a positive since difference instances have different mods. I personally would make new ones on dbzer0.

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• Blaze@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends of the topic

  • if there’s an active community on that topic, better to contribute there
  • if there’s no active community but an inactive community with a lot of subscribers, you can try to revive it
  • there might also be an adjacent community that is already active, and your topic is niche

  I see you mentioned tech, there are quite a few communities on programming.dev and lemmy.zip

  Feel free to crosspost to !fedigrow@lemm.ee , it’s a community dedicated to community growth

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