Is it better to find a niche or to create a community of sorts and how do both work exactly, so i created my account not to long ago and most places feel dead in a way but if i created my own place its not like i would get many people and i have some ideas but there kinda dumb or “Spicey” to say or somehting like that. im not even sure if i have the motivation to create and manage a community.
It’s always better to search first, in my opinion.
If a community is missing, and you don’t feel like creating or running it yourself, a next step could be to talk about it. See if others share your interest, and maybe one or more people step up to make it happen.
What are your values, and are you interested in the work of building and running a community? If you did what would you want from your community?
Build it or not, you now know what you are looking for.
Im interested in building a group or a community but im not sure if i should start one or not becasue i lack motivation and i have depression…
something like this is not a bad way to try and deal with depression esp if you feel you are in a phase where you want to socialize with people more
would suggest starting a community on an existing instance rather than starting your own so you dont have to deal with the stress of a server op role too.
I’ve been in the same boat, wondering if it will just be more stress.
yeah ive been thinking of starting an nsfw gaming community or something, but idk if that a good idea or not and it might be hard to do and im still thinking it over.
That might be a difficult one to start, as a lot of Lemmy servers don’t allow NSFW content. Best of luck. :)
I’d say don’t be afraid to give it a shot, but be realistic with your view of its effect on you. If it helps, great! If not, don’t be afraid of abandoning it or handing it off. Gotta do what’s best for you in the end.
Moderating NSFW content compounds the usual issues you need to deal with. I would sit back and see how the fediverse adapts to itself, and then it’ll be more obvious what the right move is. I think there will be a disjoint NSFW-verse for instance, but we’ll see. It could be a several weeks or even months before things get established though.
There’s a tool where you can search for communities and join them: https://browse.feddit.de
Look around to see if theres a community that already fills that niche. If there is, join it. If not, make it. If it doesn’t get any traction you can just wipe it out.
