• cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
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    1 year ago

    It really depends. Something like askhistorians is probably big enough for it to work. For the vastly smaller communities where I try to do that, the dancefloor looks as I like it IRL: empty besides me. It’s less of an empty dancefloor problem, and more that the 1% rule often means you are a part of the 1%, and the other 1-percenters stayed on reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Very true, and that’s why I think everyone on Lemmy should probably focus on a few core communities instead of spreading across niche ones that are empty. For instance, I think that photography communities (both .ml and .world, as well as other instances) would benefit from just posting to pics for now, to gain more traction on those ones.

      Once we reach a constant flow of content, then it will be time to split.