There is still [email protected] which could be used as a generic hobbies community
By the way, I noticed you never commented back on your previous thread here, any reason to that?
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By the way, I noticed you never commented back on your previous thread here, any reason to that?
Didn't feel there was much to add. Some of the threads I've started here are a mixture of gauging interest and putting ideas out there for others to try.
Alright.
To come back to your initial question, [email protected] is a very generic community, has a hobbies weekly thread, so maybe that's a start.
What do you mean exactly
That make a lot of sense: a /c/hobbies makes more sense than making 200 communities for each and every hobby you can think of.
And really it'd just be a case of making sure it gets mentioned and surfaced to people and that the server and mod teams are up to the task of dealing with broad topics and just keeping things civil rather than trying to police content.
I thought about doing a community similar to that for some things but then realized I'm not entirely sure I want to be the "owner" of something that might end up with a lot of traffic and so uh, haven't.
I think the anonymity and scattered-ness of Lemmy makes this a hard sell.
A lot of the federated social media has a lot of real name people on it. They post photos and develop common interests with particular other people they start to talk with regularly. I think the nature of the Reddit-like social media tends to discourage that. There are other advantages to things being focused on text only and casting a massive net across thousands of random accounts organized by topic groupings, but I think it's always going to be tough for people to be casual when there are thousands of faceless strangers watching over any interaction they're having, and several of them might weigh in at any moment with a consequence-free interaction.
I've noticed that the social aspects and implications of Discord vs. Reddit-like platforms vs. Facebook-like platforms are very very different and tend to lend themelves to matching styles of social interaction. I don't know how this can translate usefully into an answer to your question, it's just something I have noticed.
I think I see where you're coming from on this, and to clarify I'm not thinking so much of people developing common interests and relating individually as you describe. Instead I'm thinking in terms of people posting about an interest in a broader community, like Schizo describes with a hypothetical Hobbies community, to gauge interest and carry on for awhile until it's pretty clear they'd benefit from creating their own community.
A classic example is like the TV or Games communities that eventually draw enough people interested in the same specific shows/games that they then create sub-communities dedicated to those specific shows/games.