Also how niche should communities be? We have a technology community, should there be a PC building community or should it be left to other instances that already start more specific to then make the niche communities?
Going with the technology example maybe there’s a specific technology instance and they have communities for PC building, raspberry pi, self hosting, hacking etc etc.
I guess the benefit of a distributed platform is that we don’t have to repeat the work that another instance is doing as long as it is federated to us (with us? by us?)
Most recently there was a suggestion thread for new communities.
Personally, I don’t think niche communities are worth building at a small scale because of the worry of splintering. If I wanted to make a Gravity Rush 2 community, I’d probably just make my own instance to do it lol.
That said, I think there are valid exceptions to a point. For example, a Fighting Game Community, uh, community, might be worth it because there’s more than enough to fill up a community separate from general video games. Character guides, tournament threads, etc
Also how niche should communities be? We have a technology community, should there be a PC building community or should it be left to other instances that already start more specific to then make the niche communities?
Going with the technology example maybe there’s a specific technology instance and they have communities for PC building, raspberry pi, self hosting, hacking etc etc.
I guess the benefit of a distributed platform is that we don’t have to repeat the work that another instance is doing as long as it is federated to us (with us? by us?)
Most recently there was a suggestion thread for new communities.
Personally, I don’t think niche communities are worth building at a small scale because of the worry of splintering. If I wanted to make a Gravity Rush 2 community, I’d probably just make my own instance to do it lol.
That said, I think there are valid exceptions to a point. For example, a Fighting Game Community, uh, community, might be worth it because there’s more than enough to fill up a community separate from general video games. Character guides, tournament threads, etc
It very much feels like the old forum days of the internet doesn’t it?