No offense meant, but if we don’t have enough active contributors to make the /c/foodporn community active, what good is fragmenting a fledging community and losing the visibility gained from posting in one area with high traffic?

Surely the strategy here should be to build a critical mass of followers in one community, then split into category specific communities based on feedback from the users on what is or is not desired. Organic growth into multiple topics vs splintering a community that’s basically my food plus or minus a half dozen posts a week. Someone wining that they get no traffic doesn’t really incentive me to post in their communities.

I have the same feeling.

We have experienced everyone creating their obscure communities for the last few months, but it is obvious that due to the size of Lemmy, only communities which are generic enough can get enough traction to survive

It’s a political thing.

This post has me seriously considering no longer contributing to any communities.

Edit: Mods can read the original messages, right?

I have no idea about the politics, I think you have to admit that the food communities have not transferred from Reddit. Even the pizza subs are kinda dead. Maybe it will just take time, or maybe they won’t find traction here. Idk, but I know I’m not going back to the other place. Hopefully it happens here, if it doesn’t, then I will randomly post into the void about random projects.