I'm super satisfied with the organic growth of [email protected]
We now have more than 500 subscribers and more than 300 weekly users. We are playing and discovering games and share the results just like intended, resulting in > 300 posts and > 2000 comments.
Everyone is super nice and there's nothing to moderate so far.
That's great, well done!
I love that community, thanks for running it!
[email protected] already has 21 subscribers after just one day🎉 I'm currently planning what kind of posts I could create for it to keep it active while the community is still forming. Once it has a few more posts, I will start promoting it in vn-developer discords as well. The people on there are still a bit unsure about the fediverse in general though.
In the long run, I'd like to create more Lemmy alternatives for existing gamedev/vndev-related subreddits that are still missing on here, but I think I'll take it slow for now
Link posts to tutorials for it, perhaps?
That would be an option, yes! I thought about posting weekly tool/resource showcases as well. I think my approach will be to post from my mastodon account, tags and all, to additionally get the attention of the microblog-peeps and ensure that the post body doesnt get lost due to federation
Currently a bit busy, will probably resume posting next week
Real life has picked up a bit lately for me, too. Hoping to devote more time to communities soon.
The german-speaking communities are being rebuilt on the new feddit.org (feddit.de is completely broken now). There was a post a couple days ago about bringing missing feddit.de communities to feddit.org.
Do you have any information about what happened with feddit.de?
There was something wrong with the database, the web frontend was only showing "server error" and image uploads where broken. The only admin moved to Asia and disappeared, nobody is able to contact them. At least that's what I've heard.
Edit: And since two days feddit.de has no dns records anymore.
There's an interesting thread on asklemmy about the perils of trying to grow engagement: https://lemmy.world/comment/11375736. The topic is: "What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?"
On one hand I kind of get the point, on another hand I feel a need to post something every week or so so people who click on the community can quickly see the community is not dead and someone is checking at least semi-regularly.
Yeah, it's something worth further thought. Somewhat related is this comment by @[email protected] to @[email protected] on a c/Heathcliff thread about communities that are kept alive by a single poster:
This is a distinct problem I’ve discovered as someone who aims to post daily in my Euro-comics community-- that while it does gradually increase the subscriber count, it also (speculating here) tends to create a userbase that’s content to sit back and let someone else do the work.
So, psychologically and motivationally, I’m thinking it might even discourage contributors, especially since I try to research well everything I post, and usually post multiple images. Not unlike how you always add the reference comic as well as frequent bonus content… plus the funny comments, of course.
In other words, the two audiences are getting quality stuff without needing to lift a finger. Where is their motivation supposed to come from, daggit?
That's a great point, not sure what the answer is.
[email protected] is doing really well, especially with memes, over 100 subscribers and lots of posting from others.
[email protected] is also doing well but less active and I’m having to deal with some off topic posts.
Lesson learned on trying to mod [email protected]: Mbin accounts do not play nice with dealing with reports, or changing the sidebar or logo of a community on Lemmy. Lemmy accounts will not play nice with dealing with reports (I forget if they let you change sidebar or logo) unless your Lemmy account is on the same instance as the community. I now have a lemmy.world account, very clearly branded as Elevator7009sAlt.
[email protected] now has a couple subscribers which is nice. Trying to figure out how it talking to Mastodon works out. Recently discovered that when I explicitly make a for-Mastodon post on Mbin/Kbin by hitting "Add new post", it also federates to Lemmy… with the first few words as the title. Imagine a Tweet as a thread, with the first few words as the title… yeah, not nice. Have to keep that in mind. Also, link posts I make federate out to Mastodon but any text I put in the body gets wiped which is just sad. The title gets posted twice, once alone and once with the hashtags next to it. I cannot even link to the link post on Mastodon to demonstrate this. All options that might give me the link, even one that looks like a link to the Mastodon post, instead sends you to the Steam page I linked in the link post. Also saw that marking spoilers does not work on Mastodon. Wondering whether I should quit trying to play nice with Mastodon and stop having the magazine tagged. Probably.
I suck at it. Just created AMA Requests for people to request other people to do an ask me anything post. I have no clue how to mod or anything or promote it. And I cannot find a book or website on how to do it.
Hey there! First of all, there's no book or anything that I know of. Second, the way you refer to your community is like this: [email protected]. Quick question: are you planning to run the AMAs yourself?
Well I have been asking other users and hate to message the ADMINs. But currently yes. I just searched for my comunity and it did not show up. I thought it was a really cool thing we could bring or steal from Reddit and ask like um nurses, doctors, web developers, mods, admins a bunch of different questions because I do not think I am the only one migrating over here that liked the casualama or the just AMA. But on my community all are welcome. But I will try my best to do the best for the users. I posted in new commonites looking for help or for people post or know how to promote. I am not asking to spam it but just get the ball rolling and get other people with knowledge that other people are curious about just to ask a question without fear of being downvoted or whatever.
