In a Fediverse, far far away…
I have been involved in a few discussions about how to help the Fediverse grow and diversify and one thing I feel is key is to have more specific instances rather than large general purposes ones. It helps people when they are signing up and can help give communities a home. I know because I signed up with feddit.uk, helped grow the place and am now part of the Admin team.
Or, to cut a long story short, should there be a Star Wars Lemmy instance? Today seems the perfect time to open the discussion.
After all, there are other focused instances like:
- startrek.website
- sffa.community
- literature.cafe
- ttrpg.network
- adultswim.fan
- dormi.zone
- futurology.today
- lemmy.radio
- hobbit.world
Could move across existing communities:
And there are a lot of potential others:
- SW Action Figures
- SW Books
- SW Comics
- SW Board Games
- SW Video Games
- SW Cosplay
- SW Helmets
- SW Lightsabers
- SW Galaxy of Heroes
Possible names? A lot of obvious ones will have been scooped up or you risk copyright infringement, but how about:
- Fediverse’s Edge
May the FOSS be with you.
Hello,
Thank you for this post. I wasn’t even aware adultswim.fan was still a thing, I guess I never see them because nobody on my instance is subscribed to their communities.
Hobbit.world is very quiet, as is http://diagonlemmy.social/ (even though they still have a few active memes), so my concern is mostly about having enough people to keep the instance busy enough that it justifies its existence.
Out of the 3 others SW communities you linked, only [email protected] is still active.
Maybe it would be better to try to first animate those communities on existing instance to see if there is an appetite for those?
Just my 2 cents obviously