• chaogomu@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      The problem with those sorts of niche communities is that they need constant (sometimes heavy-handed) moderation to remain on topic. The Fediverse is not really good at that yet.

      That and there needs to be a core of dedicated posters producing new, and good, content.

      Reddit made a lot of it easy. Good(ish) mod tools (if you used third party apps or browser extensions) and communities that were large enough to keep people interested in the niche subs.

      But we all know how that tuned out.

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        6 months ago

        You also cant heavily moderate like 12 total contributors. Soon you have 0 contributions.

        But it’s also why I love lemmys showerthoughts. You don’t have to be a shower thought writing savant. You just have to try.