Particularly one that you personally would like to post/comment in on a regular basis

  • @solrize@lemmy.world
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    205 months ago

    It doesn’t work that way, sadly. Successful niche communities split off from bigger ones after there is enough shared interest to make the split necessary. Creating a new empty community from nowhere will likely result in its staying empty. That is the state of many niche communities we already have.

    • @clayh@lemmy.ml
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      165 months ago

      Everybody is obsessed with with copying Reddit here.

      Nobody wants to put in the work to build it organically like Reddit was, they just want to press a button and have a bot “seed” content until poof! There’s a community!

      It just doesn’t, and won’t ever, work that way.

      • Brewchin
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        35 months ago

        I don’t necessarily disagree, but Reddit wasn’t all OC at the start, either.

        I guess now there are so many social media sites now that some people spend all their time, to paraphrase Cory Doctorow, cross-posting between 5 sites for Internet points or to build a following. It sucks, but plugging away posting OC will build it up over time.