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Context: Reddit made a few controversial annoucements, feel free to have a look at !reddit@lemmy.world

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[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I mean yes but imo the solution isn’t any of that. The problem is that Reddit has super niche communities that people expected to have enough users to build here. That isn’t the case. And we shouldn’t be looking to transplant entire communities because that rarely works.

People really need to hear this: You need to be cross posting every single niche community post into a more general community. There are too many posts on here that exist in a knitting community but not in a general hobby community that’s more active.

This is how Reddit works and we need to follow the template. You need strong pillars that people can flock to and then branch out from there. Examples might be r/funny, r/sports, etc. Then if people want super populated places to go and chat and post, those general communities are there. If they’re new, they can find your niche community by browsing the populated places. We don’t need templates for communities, we just need to have a few really populated places with high engagement to promote natural growth.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

We share your view on !fedigrow@lemm.ee, feel free to join us there

[-] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 4 months ago

Transplanting communities rarely work because it takes a catastrophic event to push everyone in the same direction. The Reddit protests were, IMNSHO, such an event. I get it, hindsight is 20/20, but I think that if I had started my work on Fediverser when the API pricing changes were first announced, I would have in June all the tooling needed to make a coordinated mass migration.

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