I have often thought this myself. Not sure I'd enjoy being a mod, and that's assuming anyone bothers to join.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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without the significant community that is on reddit for the type of niche on lemmy, it will be hard to maintain it if nobody visits here.
Hell yeah.
Start one.
Post in it some.
No one else does.
It dies.
And you stare at it forever and wonder what you could have done better.
Don't forget the Lemmy Federate step, otherwise that would be the obvious answer to that last step. Especially if you're on a smaller instance.
Other instances won't get your community and posts therein automatically, only instances with subscribers do. Lemmy Federate automatically uses a bot to subscribe to the community from various instances that have opted in to the service, allowing your community to reach those instances from the start.
And you stare at it forever and wonder what you could have done better.
Or move on after realizing that there's no way you're going to learn stuff without doing a LOT of stuff, most of which won't work out or even go anywhere, and it's perfectly normal and fine to have lots of unfinished/dead/dormant/abandoned/(call-them-whatever-helps-you-move-on) projects.
You guys are moving on? I just hold onto my emotions until I get a hernia.
Here's the secret. You have to not think it is work. You have to be passionate enough about the topic that it's not work, it's just something you do because you enjoy talking about . You like having friends also commenting on and talking about . You have to live and breathe .
If you are starting a Lemmy community simply for the sake of creating it, you're probably wasting your time. A community is a passion project, sometimes of only a single person, but more commonly, the combined passion of many different people about a particular topic. If you're the only one who cares about you're going to have a difficult time even if you're passionate about it. If you're not passionate about it either, then it becomes an impossible task, and if neither you nor anyone else is passionate enough about to build a community around it... does Lemmy really need that community? Probably not.
So basically this problem generally solves itself. If you don't feel passionate about creating a community, don't bother. Either someone else who is passionate enough will, or nobody else will. It's not your job. Unless you want it to be.
You have to be passionate enough about the topic that it’s not work, it’s just something you do because you enjoy talking about .
This ^
I make a fair few posts (mostly back on reddit but now I'm here) and I don't do it because I get anything concrete from it. I just like seeing the replies to some of the random shit that pops up in my random-ass brain. (And I enjoy seeing how people respond rather just the content of their responses too.)
I like chatting about certain things, and luckily for me I don't need to create a community because they're already there. But frequently I want to chat about something within that community that doesn't exist, thus, I post. Making a community is just the next step in that.
So I decided to make a community out of boredom and because I felt like I wanted to thanks to what you all said. im not sure where to link it at so ill start here? im not sure if ill link it the right way or not?
This is perfect. I think niche communities with a wider scope work best. You didn't start a dosgaming, atarigaming or c64gaming community. Instead LowSpecGaming includes all low spec systems.
I did something similar with !dailygames@lemmy.zip a while back by including all daily games instead of just a single one like wordle and it's now a self sustaining community.
So you're the mastermind behind dailygames. I salure your effort good sir
Don't thank me. Thank the regular posters who keep the community alive. I rarely post a dailygame myself these days, I just play some. And the community is so nice, that I don't have to moderate anything apart from the occasional duplicate.
Not to discourage you, but Lemmy is pretty small compared to reddit. Developing a niche community at this point is pretty tough. It might be more productive to find a gaming community that you like and posting there instead.
Either way, good luck!
Ain't nothin that serious around here, friend.
Depend on the type of community. For example to have a community where i post album cover. It take a minute to post one and there is a huge numbers of album in the world with nice artworks
I have one
It's another home outside of my home.
Like really, China wasn't my home, the US doesn't like me that much either.
Maybe !theasiandiaspora@piefed.social is the real home I found along the way.
But this home is in need of my people... we are only like single digits of actual members...
:/
So if you ask us, is it worth it.
We do this not because it's easy, but because it's hard.¹ Doesn't matter if you study day and night, your parent's demand it. Honor your parent lolol /jk
(¹lmfao its a NASA space exploration saying lol, I quoted it as a joke, because like sounds so much like what a "stereotypical Asian" would say)
But its not really just a hobby thing, its an identity thing... so yes it's kinda worth it.
Dew it. You get to claim to be the oldest member and have recognition xD
If there's a fairly related existing community that has any reasonable activity it's probably better to just help that one get more activity.
I've read Lemmy admin tools are lacking compared to Piefed and Mbin but can't speak from experience
Still, community moderation is a passion project so if you don't see a point there probably is none to be had
What community are you thinking of making?
Well i decided to go with something focused on low end gaming for gamers with a terrible community who still want to game or do something.
Do it
Oh, you just made it. Make sure you federate it on lemmy.federate.com.
Does every new community need to be manually federated? What is this process like?
Also, the link doesn't work for me :x
Yes, each new communities needs to be manually added to each instance and subscribed to by a local user. Lemmy-federate is a service that instances sign up to to federate all new communities added there across the fediverse. Most instances are on it.