Wow, you certainly sunk in more resources than I did! I didn’t mean that you should run the community anywhere near that deeply; I meant just to create it so that there could be a home for Lemmy’s fans of the topic, who would then carry it on. But yeah, unless you’re getting something personal out of it then it’s not worth the effort.
Just making the community and hoping a critical mass of users will show up just doesn’t work. When it comes to niche hobbies/fandoms/etc, the venn diagram overlap of people interested in that niche and people who are active on Lemmy - which is itself a niche platform - may be as little as one or two users.
I totally understand your point. Just saying, I did my time and I’m burned out. I like the fediverse and I like Lemmy. I trust that there are good people willing to do the work here though. It sucks that some of the niche subs I loved on reddit still only really exist there… But there was a time when they didn’t exist on reddit either. People like me built those communities on reddit. People will do so here too.
Wow, you certainly sunk in more resources than I did! I didn’t mean that you should run the community anywhere near that deeply; I meant just to create it so that there could be a home for Lemmy’s fans of the topic, who would then carry it on. But yeah, unless you’re getting something personal out of it then it’s not worth the effort.
Just making the community and hoping a critical mass of users will show up just doesn’t work. When it comes to niche hobbies/fandoms/etc, the venn diagram overlap of people interested in that niche and people who are active on Lemmy - which is itself a niche platform - may be as little as one or two users.
I totally understand your point. Just saying, I did my time and I’m burned out. I like the fediverse and I like Lemmy. I trust that there are good people willing to do the work here though. It sucks that some of the niche subs I loved on reddit still only really exist there… But there was a time when they didn’t exist on reddit either. People like me built those communities on reddit. People will do so here too.