5mo ago

Hello I would like to share some communities I made on my instance.

!buddhism@lemmy.selfhostcat.com !gradschool@lemmy.selfhostcat.com !datahoarder@lemmy.selfhostcat.com !ipod@lemmy.selfhostcat.com !parenting@lemmy.selfhostcat.com

I mod some of these communities on other instances but wanted to provide decentralized alternatives, since that’s the whole point of Lemmy, and explore admining since I enjoy selfhosting :)

Very niche communities but I welcome anyone to join and post.

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Be careful with this approach. It's great you're excited, but I was in that boat. When the reddit exodus started everyone made a community for every niche, but then there was not enough to keep them going. So communities petered out one by one
I've found it's better to focus your efforts on a couple of communities and get them going vs spreading out.
- Yes, I agree. I popped over to take a look and there was only one post, for the two that most appeal to me. Not very inviting for subscribers.
  
  I just made them, that’s why I’m sharing! :)
What's the value in duplicating existing communities?
- So that if LW or ML go down there are other communities. The fediverse is supposed to be decentralized. If everyone only follows coms on the big servers then what’s the the point? Also LW and ML mods and admins have their own ideologies that don’t suite everyone. Decentralization prevents this.
  In the end I just enjoy selfhosting and wanted to host some of my own.
  
  I find that many communities with the same name fragments users. Then posters try to post to every community with the same name which produces duplicate posts that fragment conversation. The two noncredibledefense communities are a good example of this, as are the half dozen parenting and dads communities.
  It's a lousy user experience.

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