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Variety is important. Beehaw has communities for gardening, programming and gaming - three distinct interests I like to read about all with an active (albeit currently small) userbase. The more variety there is, the more people will engage and the more people engage the bigger the community will become.
Too much of a good thing can be detrimental though and I'm curious if Lemmy will be capable of avoiding the same pitfalls that Reddit had. You go to one of the mainstream cooking subreddits for example, and the sidebar will have thirty other cooking related subreddits, most of which will probably be cross-posts, which dilutes the content. I feel like the federated nature of Lemmy will actually make that worse, but we'll see.