Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur’s Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur’s Gate 3 you create a Baldur’s Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers’ tits mod, which shall get its own group.

Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depends. There is also value in growing a niche community one post at a time, even if you are the only poster there for weeks or months.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The main risk is community building fatigue when you see another community getting most of the activity.

I stopped starting to grow [email protected] because of that when I saw that [email protected] was getting most of the posts.