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Small communities that are similar should think about mushing together for activity. Example: Hiking, Backpacking, Thru Hiking. It will generate more Activity and then branch out. We have too many niche pages that won't be active.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Video games are another big one.

I always favor [email protected] rather than [email protected], but I know some people think the opposite.

At the moment, it's mostly a debate between people wanting to centralize content on LW, and people who prefer it on another well-known instance.

I'm guilty of that with [email protected] and [email protected].

But to be fair, games and movies and general interest, all the communities seem to be doing well, even if split.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As much as I hate the bot content on principle, communities that either repost reddit or scrape some other aggregator at least have enough content for a community to begin to form around it. There just aren't enough posters anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm just trying to find some subs for my favorite games that have more than 2 post from 2 months ago.