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We allow a wide range of topics here including; your own images, technical questions, gear talk, photography blogs etc. Please be respectful and don't spam.

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What is this community for exactly? (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 1 year ago by MikeyMongol@lemmynsfw.com to c/photography@lemmy.world
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So I guess I'm wondering if this community is intended to be about photography, as in the discussion of photography, or if it's going to be like r/itookapicture was on Reddit. I absolutely don't think that we need to replicate what they did on that other site, but those were two very different places with very different purposes. They're both valuable, but I think that they're valuable in different ways and it might be good to separate them from each other in some fashion.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of communities start out as a single group for a wide range of content related to a topic like photography, including gear talk, photos, industry news, howtos, etc.... When they get to a certain size, discussions start getting lost in the flood of content and it makes sense to fork more specialized sub-communities.

Forking too early leads to a bunch of dead communities with a handful of posts.