I agree that being more general might help to produce more active communities to start with. Perhaps over time as people are requesting more communities there should be a voting threshold or poll system to see if enough people are interested before fragmenting a general community into more specific ones?
There are some newer posts over there when sorting by ‘New’, I have no idea why the ‘Hot’ posts are so old with no activity on them though.
I agree that we should either have a new community here or add a link to the other community in a sticky / server sidebar note so that we can have more general discussion somewhere.
Looks like there is one on lemmy.ml.
Hopefully that link works, I thnk I found the correct format to send people there without leaving this instance.
It’s hard to tell at this point, in my opinion we need more active general communities before becoming too specific. It’s been a little overwhelming seeing the fragmentation of communities across instances here on Lemmy. Hopefully something happens to improve the experience, I’m liking being involved so far though!