I'm super satisfied with the organic growth of !dailygames@lemmy.zip
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!
!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de 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.
Damn, that's a shame. I don't know if it's because I was using a lot of their community browser tool, but I thought they were one of the most invested in making a long-term alternative.
It was looking fine for a long time. One thing I always thought was weird is that they never accepted donations and paid everything out of their own pockets. That's why I opted for discuss.tchncs.de when I opened my account, their finances are completely transparent on the website.
Now that you mentioned, I also went to look at feddit.ch and it also seems to have been abandoned.
I honestly don't know what to feel about this.
On the one hand, it is yet-another data point supporting my hypothesis that the current server-centric architecture of the Fediverse is not sustainable. On the other hand, it seems like not enough people care. Having to move communities around because one admin just got tired of dealing with this shit should not be normalized.
yep.
Switzerland community is now suisse@lemmy.world
Always has been to be honest, this community is French speaking and never was on the feddit.ch, mostly German speaking
Now that you mentioned, I also went to look at feddit.ch and it also seems to have been abandoned.
It has been a few months.
On the other hand, it seems like not enough people care.
People usually pick large instances that are known to be reliable
People usually pick large instances that are known to be reliable
This is remedy but not a real solution to the problem.
Feddit.org is now a non profit managed by several people, so that's definitely better.
Feddit.UK is the same I think?
Yes, in as much as we aren't formally a non-profit organisation or charity but we have a team and we don't make any money off it. It was touch-and-go for a while as the instance only had one Admin, which always makes it precarious, and they went AWOL. So we assembled a team.to.replace him, tried to get in touch and then had a new instance rolled on a new server. At the last minute he got in touch and handed everything over to us (data and domain) so we were able to keep the lights on.
Our first financial report is here. We have already raised enough that the instance is solid and will be around as long as people want it. As the money all goes through Open Collective, I could spontaneously combust tomorrow and the bills would still get paid.
Lemmy.ca went one better and have done all the paperwork.
Thank you for the insights. Ah yes, that's Lemmy.ca, I got confused
!chronicillness@lemmy.world is doing really well, especially with memes, over 100 subscribers and lots of posting from others.
!astroturfing@lemmy.world is also doing well but less active and I’m having to deal with some off topic posts.
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 @JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee to @FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 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.
My motivation is trying to help the Fediverse grow and knowing it needs posters.
I try to post in most communities I'm in, although there's a few where I am incredibly new or my interest in the topic is super casual and I'm just an onlooker watching something I really don't belong to. In those cases I just sit back and consume the mod's content because I really have nothing to offer besides maybe a private message amounting to "I see your effort, thank you".
Lesson learned on trying to mod !bunnies@lemmy.world: 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.
!otomegames@kbin.run 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: !amarequests@lemmy.world. 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.
Well to begin with, I suggest adding a description of your community somewhere in that community, so people know what it's about and what to expect of it. if only so visitors know whether they should subscribe or not.
I don't think people mind that you ask for help. Here on !fedigrow@lemm.ee is a great place to ask. You may also want to try !asklemmy@lemmy.world. Just make a post telling people what you have in mind and asking for help or guidance. Ideally you'd also find someone to work along with you. I'd help you myself but I don't know anything about AMAs and my time's full up.
Great advice
I just thought that Ask Me Anything community would attract people to lemmy. People can make requests and its up to the mods or anyone to help get them to come over and have a discussion with their user base.
Edit: probably not what you were looking for, but still
Lemmy devs did AMAs a while back on !announcements@lemmy.ml
For some reason I am banned from lemmy.ml and don't know why. So I can't comment unless its on another instance or community.
To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks