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[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

!superbowl@lemmy.world has been getting some people posting things of their own lately and it's been really nice to see!

A couple people have submitted pics they've taken of owls they've encountered, and there's been some art and articles. Good variety of things.

I like it because I don't mind posting all the things as the content is pretty easy to get, but it's all coming from my taste and perspective on what is interesting, so it's good to see what I'm missing or overlooking, plus I like seeing people's real life experiences with nature.

I'd been feeling uninspired, and this has given me a big boost as it feels I've finally inspired some others to contribute. I'm happy to teach and answer questions, but seeing others take an active role in the growth of the community is truly something else. I want it to be a space for everyone to be happy and enjoy each other being there together looking at beautiful nature things.

Also I've been having decent luck incorporating more non-English speaking content. Got nice photos and stories from Kuwait, China, Slovenia, France, Germany and others rolling in now. It increases variety and perspective, and I like learning about the language and culture aspects from other users and from just reading and learning the terms to find the content. A German user also provided some links to German animal rescues for the sidebar links.

Comments feel a bit slower, but with all the other good, I'm not going to sweat that right now. Activity is still there overall.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Promoted my !thrashmetal@lemmy.world community on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for the first time. Gained ~10 subs.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I definitely read that as "trash metal" several times before getting it correct.

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're almost on par with with !metal@lemmy.world, that's impressive

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[–] wjs018@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been able to post as much this past week compared to normal, but things have been going ok:

  • !anime@ani.social is actually kind of booming right now with the start of a new season of shows. I have seen lots of first-time commenters chiming in on episode threads. It actually hit ~300 users/day at one point over the weekend.
  • !manga@ani.social has been calm but active. There are a handful of other fairly reliable posters that have been able to keep things going while I have been away.

The not as active ones:

  • !nokotan@ani.social - I inherited this community when the previous moderator had to step away for an extended period of time. The nokotan community in general is very meme-heavy, and I just don't really know how to engage with that very well. There is only so much non-meme content about the series. So, I am going to try to binge-read the manga and start posting chapter discussion threads when new chapters are released. I just need to find the time to do that.
  • !gundam@ani.social - This is another kind of special case. The current, most active Gundam community is !gundam@possumpat.io. However, that instance announced that they are shutting down later this month. The current users over there were interested in setting up a new community but there wasn't anybody that wanted to moderate. So, I offered my help in that respect. It just started this past week, so there isn't much there yet, but I am going to try to keep posting any Gundam-related content I find over there.
[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can try to help a bit with Gundam!

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Routine

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

The pikas will return. My mental health just hit the floor, and I've been struggling. Hope things are better for y'all.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

All of them are working as intended, can't ask for much more than that. I don't think it's healthy to get caught up in subscribers and all that too much. Things are generally trending positively, good enough for me.

There's been a disappointing uptick in negative interactions on the fediverse lately (IMO) and that's more disturbing to me than community numbers. Some (again, IMO) questionable decisions are being made in some of the larger places on the fediverse but a lot of it is users taking it as a challenge or a right of passage to get banned from communities or instances so they can meme and rant about it. It's silly behavior and we can do better than this.

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[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Not great, no idea how to grow a continuity clearly. https://lemmy.world/c/cars

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

!cars@lemmy.world

Let me have a look

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I was wondering how to link like that, thank you!

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 6 months ago

Have you tried promoting it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ?

You could also start weekly discussion threads just to get the ball rolling, people are usually more comfortable commenting than posting

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Still posting daily on !dubstep@lemmy.dbzer0.com still getting barely any traction on anything and still have barely any engagement.

Still not too bothered either though. It's a very niche subject on a niche platform and I'm happy posting into a void, I know a few people stop by and that is enough for now :)

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

EDM subs on lemmy are generally in a pretty poor state (progressive / trance / D&B). I occasionally contribute via another account, but it feels like there just isn't a critical mass yet.

I will join !dubstep@lemmy.dbzer0.com and occasionally post too.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeh this is true. I try to post occasionally on DnB as well but my wheel house is dubstep and so I mainly stick with that.

I just carry on in the hopes that as more people join Lemmy that may be interested in it, hopefully they will find my community with a good, solid history of posts rather than just dead air. Hopefully as that happens more contributors will start popping up but until then I'll keep on keeping on :D

A lot of the larger dubstep community still use shit like Facebook and Instagram so they obviously arent the kinds of people that prioritise things like privacy and decentralisation so I expect it will be a long wait xD

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I am done with commercial social networks. Perhaps this a bit presumptuous of me, but I think in the (distant? hopefully not too distant?) future, current social networks will be seen as excess of the early information age.

I don't recruit people to the fediverse, but I've described it in abstract terms (and realistic terms - it's mostly tech nerds) to some close friends/family members and they actually agreed that the concept made a lot of sense.

The ones who listen to EDM were even like "wow, this is actually like an underground non-commercial social network that goes against the grain and focuses on what matters". That being said, for an underground community/movement, the EDM scene is super tied into mainstream social media.

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can maybe start a weekly thread "What have you listened to / discovered this week"?

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

I have considered this but have yet to try it out yet, I should try at least, see if I get any responses :)

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Trying to get !leagueoflegends@lemm.ee more active, small success so far

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

!news_summary@lemmy.dbzer0.com has been getting some decent engagement all posts get a couple of votes and some have bewn getting decent commenter engagement.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 6 months ago

!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com really starting to overthrow !lotrmemes@midwest.social. Pinging the last few posters on the midwest.social to the post helps.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago

!antisocialmedia@piefed.social has 72 subscribers and my posts are getting a decent amount of votes and a few comments. Not bad for a 5 day old community!

!sophie@piefed.social is pretty chill, just me posting pics of my dog I don't expect that to go anywhere. It's just for fun.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Been trying to get some life into !boardgames@sopuli.xyz, but it's been slow growing the subscriber count. I'm really happy to see !longreads@sh.itjust.works has picked up its own momentum and is getting content beyond just my posts.

I really liked the idea of LongReads but never subbed because most of the posts were depressing long reads.

Checked now and I'm happy to see that alongside peoples' insurance getting cut off, something about Trump, and something about abortion, there's articles about knots and Guitar Hero.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 6 months ago

I really enjoy the board games community!

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[–] Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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