Would you like it to grow so all of your other, non-technical interests could have active communities? Do you want more people for moral and philosophical reasons? Or are you enjoying being in a niche? Are you happy to have a platform full of techie individuals, even in communities not explicitly tied to anything techie (much like this one)?
My answer to all of these is “yes,” so I’m not quite sure what I want. What are your thoughts?
Eh… I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, it sure would be nice if there were more gamers here and every individual game had its own community, that was actually active, like Reddit does.
On the other, I’ve seen literally every space I’ve ever used get ruined by having too many people watering down the fun and altering the vibe. Eternal September fucking sucks.
I can say that the best thing to do a gaming community is to push it yourself. !satisfactory@lemmy.world was pretty empty when I got there, I just took screenshots for 8 months and talked it up whenever I could. Now it’s actually thriving, and people knew to go there for the 1.0 release.
Hell I even have a decent sized Taylor Swift community on a very nerdy platform. Pick something that either doesn’t exist or that doesn’t have much traction and post to it constantly. It feels weird getting no, or few upvotes, but it will pick up. As it starts showing on all people will start subscribing