On Lemmy is it usually safe to create ones own community to post their own stuff on a smaller scale when there are other communities already available of the same topic? Or should we just go to the larger communities. To reduce spam. I feel like one side to this is obvious and the the other side is, to create communities to increase competition.
I don’t personally think splitting a small audience makes sense, but if there is some reason you don’t like the existing group, that is different. Not sure why it would be unsafe, what are your concerns?
Concerns would be, if a were to join any given Lemmy server and create for instance, another tech community, and possibly getting said community taken down for spam.
I don’t think that happens but it wouldn’t harm you. You could ask the mods of your server, though, right? It’s not a stupid question at all.
What’s more likely is that nobody will ever see or use your community.
That’s unlikely, but having a community be in hands of admins you trust is important. If you feel your community will be sufficiently unique in some way (even just moderation style) then go for it. Why not? I have.