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Should we build a community building community? (lemmy.zip)
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I've been tooling around with ideas for an "Obscure Games Club" community. Before making it I'd love to gauge interest, maybe get 1 or 2 people to commit to a certain level of involvement, and get feedback on the setup. But I don't actuallly know a good space to do that.

Most communities on the fedi are monuments to one passionate person talking to a brick wall, with the last post being sometime between 1 and 3 years ago. Perhaps less would peter out if the starting seed was more than one individual.

I can see problems with this idea. But I also see a lot of problems with the current way of doing things. It might be worth a shot.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is this for video games or non-video games? If video games, there is already !Bside@fedia.io

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    It'd be more of a game club, similar to a book club. Its a concept I think might eventually be able to do well on the fedi

    But really it was just an example, the post is more about my ideas for getting a group together before starting a community, rather than trying to always go solo and hoping for the best.

    For instance, if you had a friend or a group of friends that was into a topic, it might be easier to talk them into joining lemmy and starting a public space to talk about that topic, than starting from just 1 person.

    But you might not have that group, so a community building space might be useful ie

    any other metal fans interested in helping me start a metal community?

    Rather than just

    I started a metal community! Please come talk to me!

    Most of lemmy (me included) has been doing the second one. I think the first might be more succesful.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    Well then, I would perhaps be interested in said Obscure Games Club. Although I do have trouble with commitment. But I equally like talking about games I play with people, and I like playing smaller more obscure games, and those two things tend to be in conflict.

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