Club Hub

As there was a People's Court thread recently that was made with the aim of making Lemmygrad communities more active, I started thinking about Club Hub and wondering who, of the subscribers here, is still interested in the concept of this community. I have no authority here, I'm just one of the people who subscribed and am wondering about this.

I thought Club Hub was an interesting idea, but as we can see, it never really got off the ground in a major way. I still like the basic idea behind this community, though, which was stated in this thread:

> Once we start building up a population on Club Hub then we could plan to “brigade” our own communities to populate them. This way we could have a central area for organizing and marketing communities without relying on the “Trending Communities” area or clogging up GZD.

Now, I don't know if this original purpose of Club Hub is still interesting to the 40 subscribers here, and also, I don't know how many of those subscribers are actually still around at all. Looks like @[email protected] has been away for a while, too. But maybe there is still something interesting that can be done in Club Hub.

So, if anyone is around, what are your thoughts on this community?

I believe for my own sanity and worth while that I'll restrict myself to occasional Club Hub posts. I really have not had a break in a while, but I still do believe there to be an importance of this Community. I will probably do a Newsletter sort of thing that will consolidate my thoughts about communities. Have a good one!

I was supposed to get the ball rolling yesterday for this to happen today but my life just took a slam to the face, so from comrade to comrade understand me here.

From today to tomorrow, I would like to see what each of us making a post on TRG would do for its content flow, for the next week or so. It has been stagnant for the past week so I'm hoping if we can get it leaking out just a little bit, consistently, that it would help. Oh yeah, here's thelink

I am realizing the marketing for Club Hub itself won't bring the traction, it's both redundant and unsuccessful. It is unsuccessful since people will get annoyed by the constant bombardment of begging to join, as I have so experienced (whoops). It is redundant because it has enough "monthly viewers" that it should pop up on local view when we post on here. On that last note what we really need to do is to get people who wanna make a community, like for example the based Poland-ball to make that announcement directly as a post on ClubHub. I think I will make a new thread each week for suggestions, to feed the a l g o r i t h i m.

I'm so happy somebody read my mind about making a community for analyzing production, it's good to see all of us comrades on the same page of bettering Lemmy!

Yes I did just copy and paste the answers:

-theory discussion

-study groups

-community about nature/birding,

-one about learning Russian.

-Gardening: The Revolutionary Garden

-Tea community

-Irish community

-Beer Brewing

-A community for sharing material (memes videos posters ideas whatever) for radicalizing libs:

-Programming

-Based Polandball.

-Math, science, philosophy

Okay, I am planning on maybe next Sunday we could try out the "brigade" of TRG. Why TRG to test my plan for brigading? Well for starters, wanting a garden club is what got me on this path but also it happens to have the right amount of activity and inactivity to see how much this "brigade" will help, and a garden club seemed to garner the most traction from the first post.

I almost forgot, I probably wont do much for club hub tomorrow since my internet access is limited and everything is closed for Easter.

Farewell and Oh Comrade, My Comrades

Overall all the genres I have noticed going through the backlogs of Lemmygrad. -Archives: Gone too soon.

-Shitposting: Does it even need an introduction?

-Dunking on Libs: (sigh)

-Dunking on non ML leftists: Usually Anarchists or MLMs.

-Sexuality: One of the largest genres, with the nature of it, its communities probably just need time and Lemmygrad’s own population to grow.

-Neurodiversity: There’s an actual community for NDs and the rest are for autism, weirdly no adhd, (I got that one if you couldn’t tell, lol)

-Training Grounds: A genre that is based around improvement of the mind and body, basically like working out, working on organizing skills, a REAL self help if you will.

-Alternative Browser and Medias: Like Linux and Fediverse, basically fuck the tech giants.

-Programming: I’m in.

-Technology: Sort of like programming but more broad, IDK computer stuff, sorry guys.

-Communist Parties in Your Area: Different Parties

-Anti-American Empire: Boo!

-ML Education: Lenin would be so proud.

-National Culture: Like different countries and regions.

-Languages: For learning or speaking different languages.

-Anime Stuff: Communities around anime or just japanese-esc fanbases.

-The Internet Classics: Your good ole reddit classics, brought back to you in Lemmyvision.

-Religion: Self explanatory

-Biology: Cool animal and ecosystem stuff.

-Gardening: Grow your own grain in Stalin’s Sizeable Spoon Simulator!

-Australia: A user named Nique, has made lots of communities around Australia. So if you are interested in Australia, they’re your go to.

-AESthetics: Different types of art and style communities, I just realized there was AES in aesthetics so that’s fun.

-Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Sort of miscellaneous communities with either, huge subscribers bases w/ no posts, or just too old to tell the tale, will still probably look at them to

-Old Non ML Groups: Can some of you elders here explain why there are communities for Anprims on a ML site?

-Miscellaneous: I think I’ll just keep a hold of the old misc. communities and wait to see if someone asks about a community they would like that could be in there.

This is sort of rushed since I gotta go soon, and there may be more but maybe this will give you guys ideas. I’ll probably make more direct posts about each genre later.

Farewell, and Oh Comrade, My Comrades!

EDIT: Here are some genres I have skipped over in the rush, or may have missed in general, (woah, do the words general and genre have the same roots, weird).

-Wargaming/Real Time Strategy: mainly HOI4

-Gaming: And I was just about to get my 30 day chip for Mtn Dew

-Commie Music: Liberators of pop-centric cultures

First off, please forgive me for my absence yesterday, life happens, secondly I am conjuring ideas to make community populating more efficient.

Okay I have an idea to consolidate things in our Rallying Brigade phase. To lighten the load, since there aren’t that many communities on Lemmygrad just yet, we should compile or just look over those established ones. This way, we could just group together older communities that fill a genre instead of a niche. I Think I will start off with a master post, then have a separate genre based post with links to each community. It might take me a bit to look over each community so don’t get too excited.

Oh and with the Local view on, I realize I could minimize the cross posts to /c/communism, to reduce the spam just a little bit, ;)

Farewell, and Oh Comrade, My Comrades!!

Here we can collect the data for desired communities, then later we will explore if those communities exist or not (I am thinking of making a checklist to explain my thinking)

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/201748

> My whistle blowing of Lemmygrad’s future has already garnered us valuable progress, one of our admins, Muad’Dibber, has changed the default view of communities to local, and another of our admins, Camrada Forte, suggested us to repurpose /c/communism ‘s large subscriber base, then we wouldn’t have to waste valuable time and energy rallying on a new community. Now for those of you who don’t know why we are choosing to repurpose /c/communism it’s for two reasons: First, it already has the numbers. Second but more importantly, it is supposed to be the main hub of Lemmygrad. But… with its banner under the vague and redundant communism (on a communist site) it is a lake with algae in it. If we can repurpose /c/communism into a pipeline for other communities, it will be more akin to a basin atop a mountain feeding rivers into the valleys. > > The Pipeline for Other Communities: > With its numbers, we can kick off the first week or so by surveying the types of communities people would want on Lemmygrad. Once we have an idea of the most wanted communities, we could dig up ones that match who just need a boost, or create brand new ones. For example I wanted a Gardening community (this is kinda what started this whole thing) and what would you know, we have one! The Revolutionary Garden! But like me, there were many others who wanted a garden community without even knowing we had one. > > So in this example what should we do? Well, we marked off the first and second boxes already: Is there a push for a specific community? (Yes!) If yes, does this community already exist or do we need a new one? (In a Gardening community, it's the former). Now since it is a community that already exists we need to ask ourselves, what is this issue here? Is it a lack of posting problem, a numbers problem, an access problem, or is it a multitude of those problems? (Seeing with Lemmygrad’s current situation, most communities made pre-GZD quarantine are having a multitude of those issues. With TRG, it seems to fill a niche enough to have a consistent community just needs the numbers and exposure) > > Some Other Things I Have Noticed While Working On This: > People who are new to Marxism-Leninism, such as myself, are finding themselves unwilling to comment on larger communities. This could be a natural timidness, a fear of ridicule for a bad take, or just plain old reluctance till they feel educated enough. This is why even though we see large amounts of upvotes on posts (Don’t worry, I’m taking in secondary accounts) the actual commenters or posters in general, are the same couple of comrades we see again and again. Now how could repurposing /c/communism solve this issue. The easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they hate. The second easiest way to get someone talking is to ask them what they are passionate about. We are shooting for the second. So we are killing two birds with one stone. Communities will be made significant to support passionate comrades, and passionate comrades will support their significant communities. > > The Actual Process: > Now how are we going to start populating these communities? I have a concept in mind. After we have gathered or birthed wanted communities, we will prepare sort of an assignment list. In practice it’ll go something like this, let’s use the TRG still: It is Monday, Joe Schmo sees the weekly list of wanted communities stickied to the top of the former /c/communism. Joe scans the list and sees The Revolutionary Garden on there. Now, Joe could also have some other communities he would like to “brigade” but TRG is his favorite, (since he has been wanting a gardening community for a long time just didn’t know it existed, I know lots of projection here). Then Joe, knowing the plan to “brigade” the communities on this list on Sunday, starts researching his potential post for TRG. It is almost Sunday, Joe has decided he will post about the potential of Aquaponics (using fish poop to feed unsoiled plants in a closed system). Sunday comes and people from all over Lemmygrad wanting to get into TRG start posting what they have learned or made, etc. TRG grows with a new burst of subscribers, and more momentum. Then on Monday, the cycle repeats itself. > > It doesn’t have to be Sunday of course, and there will be more communities to ”brigade” but this is what I have thought of. This will be the “Rallying Brigade” phase I was talking about. Your thoughts, guys?

Now that I actually got the ball rolling on this, time is of the essence. I plan on marketing this everyday for about 2 weeks, then for another 2 weeks every other day, and then once a week for a few months, then solidify into once a month.

Once we start building up a population on Club Hub then we could plan to “brigade” our own communities to populate them. This way we could have a central area for organizing and marketing communities without relying on the “Trending Communities” area or clogging up GZD.

The reason we will need this, is unlike reddit, we don’t have the numbers or the time to build up on its own.

I hope this works!!!