On Lemmy is it usually safe to create ones own community to post their own stuff on a smaller scale when there are other communities already available of the same topic? Or should we just go to the larger communities. To reduce spam. I feel like one side to this is obvious and the the other side is, to create communities to increase competition.

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Depends of the topic

    • if there’s an active community on that topic, better to contribute there
    • if there’s no active community but an inactive community with a lot of subscribers, you can try to revive it
    • there might also be an adjacent community that is already active, and your topic is niche

    I see you mentioned tech, there are quite a few communities on programming.dev and lemmy.zip

    Feel free to crosspost to !fedigrow@lemm.ee , it’s a community dedicated to community growth