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Recipes and Cooking Tips

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We're thinking about merging some of the cooking/food communities, want to get your input (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello again!

So we, the food and cooking community mods, have been discussing merging a few of the communities together. We're pretty fractured at the moment and we don't really have the userbase to support so many niche communities so we're looking at merging some. We previously pinned a post asking users to cross-post to relevant communities and some of the feedback we received is some don't like this as it can clutter their feeds. Also there were many suggestions of merging until we get more growth and can support more nice communities.

So the plan would be to merge !askculinary, !bbq, !cooking, !food, and !recipes. This would combine a lot of the more general food communities into one and hopefully we reduce cross posting as well as grow users and content. Later, if we have a larger userbase that can support more niche communities, we can spin them off again. So, before moving forward with the merge, we wanted to make sure you all are aware of the plans as well as get some feedback on this decision. So please let us know what you think. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Thanks!

EDIT: To explain how this would work, we have a couple options:

  1. Lock all the niche communities and leave a pinned post pointing to the main Food community. Later we may reopen them once the userbase grows to support them.

  2. Leave all communities open and cross post from the niche communities to the main one. So when you post a recipe to [email protected], it would get crossposted to [email protected]. [email protected] would be a catch all if you wanted the "fire hose" approach. Or you can sub to the niche communities you want.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why Food though? Last post was 2 months ago and was low effort garbage (not OC, a link about American breakfast cereal). Why not Cooking or Recipes instead?

The past posts don't matter. Food would just be the better catch all community name for everything food related. Recipes would exclude questions, cooking tips, or other more generic topics. Once people sub, in theory, it should have more users than all the other food communities. And posts will come.

Unpopular opinion I guess but I would rather have separate dedicated subs and wait for them to grow. Easy enough to subscribe to each.

That's why we're looking at keeping them open and setting up !food to be a catch-all. I just don't want to clutter everyone's feeds with constant cross posts. So trying to figure out exactly how we would want to do that.

Also, the problem we're seeing is the separate communities aren't really growing. Look at this community, for example. Almost every post is me or u/TheGiantKorean. People comment, but we're gonna need more people to post content for people to want to sub and grow. So the idea of having a big catch-all community is accepting a wider variety of post types, we can have more people posting.