Submitted 2 days ago by GrumpyCat@leminal.space to [deleted]
Don’t make new communities for topics that already have communities on Lemmy. You CAN, but, like all things in life, Jurassic Park teaches us best.
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they COULD they never stopped to think if they SHOULD!”
And as we all know, if you ignore the teachings of Jurassic Park, a T-Rex will eat you as you sit on the toilet.
When you gotta go, you gotta go!
I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you're just pulling 'best of' content from elsewhere.
So-- IMO it's generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I've seen, most community founders don't necessarily realise that, and aren't actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).
IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the "ALL" feed. Whereas for example, that's almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!
I mod a few popular communities, and it’s pretty chill (mostly because they’re not really controversial spaces). I also run a fairly niche community, and It’s only as stressful as you make it. If popularity explodes, getting more mods on board will help you.
If you do you should be actively running them. One thing that annoys me with the fediverse is I feel a bunch of communities get created and abandoned. Its like folks are doing the if you build it, they will come and no. No. They will not come. It just pollutes the topic. Similarly if communities around the subject already exists see if that does well enough for you or see if you can become a mod and help it grow. For the same reasons. To much of the same thing. Don't get me wrong I like there being a few different communities just for redundancy purposes being instances can blow up or become abandoned. Honestly people real serious about thier community should really think about having a backup ready for it on another instance. Anyway I block things I don't care for like sports or memes. OMG. sometimes it feels like people make new meme community just so they can have a personal community to post their memes. At times they pop up like crazy and there are a ton already and I get there are different meme subject type things but you will see the exact same subjects. Ok. yeah soapboxing a bit there. Anyway do it if your serious about something and will put the time in.
an empty community is better than a nonexistent one :)
even if you don’t post, someone will come along and send something once in a while. like me at !weeviltime@sh.itjust.works
Its like reddit. I say nope there’s no monetary worth to put on creating a community. Secondly, it is not worth it from a personal perspective because I had just started one on .world when I got banned for some misunderstood comment. No matter how good you are on your own in your heart, you’re only worth that one last comment when the admin feels like banning someone that moment. If you own your instance then yeah sure that makes sense. Doing it on others’ instance it will eventually end in a painful breakup. So I wouldn’t. But I would visit if you did do it. I would suggest finding a rando co-founder in case you do get banned accidentally. That way at least your users won’t get a shock when you’re gone and you can’t respond. Ultimately it depends on you giving away your effort to give someone else’s website content for free without an expectation of co-owning anything. Like planting a tree on your neighbors house and watering until its giving fruit just so one day the neighbor kicks you out.
People who have community’s what’s it like?
For more info about this, go to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip and look for the posts titled “Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?” In those posts, people who have taken charge of communities talk about what it’s like.
yes.
and then donate to the instance’s admins because there are no VC’s here … yet.
and then donate to the instance’s admins because there are no VC’s here … yet.
The point of lemmy (as far as I understand) is that there will not be a central corpo entity controlling and enshittifiying it as a whole, if that does happen to the particular instance your account or community is, you have the freedom to jump to another one, and continue your life.
On the other hand if you enjoy lemmy you could show support/donate, either to the devs, a particular instance admins, or even a particular community moderators
Go for it. I’ll join
Eh, might as well.
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I say if you plan to stick around and have patience to cultivate your community: do it.
If you don’t, then please don’t create them. You could join and post in existing communities that are close to those topics instead.
You are of course free to do as you will, but the reason I say don’t go for it if you don’t have the patience is because dead and unmoderated communities cause more issues than they solve.
Additionally: if you are new it’s possible some of the communities you are looking for already exist. Searching in lemmyverse.net might give you better results in case you are on a small instance.