Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur’s Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur’s Gate 3 you create a Baldur’s Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers’ tits mod, which shall get its own group.

Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.

  • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    It entirely depends on whether you want to be a shepherd or a… I’m struggling a bit to come up with a metaphore that isn’t loaded somehow. Let’s go with “blogger”.

    But if there’s a topic you want to discuss, log content for, and write your own articles about, there’s little reason to not create your own little space for it all that others can choose to participate in. Such a space can attract new users to the network who aren’t currently interested in Linux news and possum pics.

    But creating a space that looks like a bunch of link spam with no human engagement can look fake, and dissuade participation, so you need to really put some effort into not looking like a bot.

    It’s easier to fork an active community. Being a mod is work, but it doesn’t require you to write 3000+ words per week to try and catch attention from an unknown population.