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How specific communities should be? (feddit.it)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On Reddit there are very specific and helpful communities, personally I often look up on communities about Adobe softwares. What if I wanted to create specific communities on Lemmy? Ideally I’d creare an Indesign community, but do you think it would be better to keep it more general, something like Graphic design or Adobe, since Lemmy is much smaller then Reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup, it's easy to make a more specific community if the interest is there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, and also it will make it feel less like "lemmy is dead" to new comers (something we have heard time and time again from people who are new to the fediverse) because they accidentally found the one community that was dead. It's easier to point them to "our version" of a community they are looking for.

Even in moderately popular communities the posting frequency is quite low compared to what some people are used to. For me personally I actually like the activity level of lemmy, but we need more people to account for comings and goings of users to be able to sustain communities on the long run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Yup, just slap it in the sidebar as a "related community."