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So the mods of a few of the cooking/food communities have come together to try to help eachother and our communities grow. You may have noticed we have started linking other communities on the side bar. And we are discussing other forms of cross-promotion. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment them below.

For now, we are encouraging our users to subscribe and cross post when they can to related communities. We want our communities and Lemmy as a whole to grow and we need users and content. More content = more users that may become interested to subscribe. We are also asking our users to take part and post. There’s a very high percentage of lurkers and that’s perfectly fine, but we need people to post and share. That’s the only way we will be able to keep this train rolling. So please post and cross-post when you can and help us grow our communities. Thank you!

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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 1 year ago

Interesting, i run and mod !food@monyet.cc that meant for a place for Malaysian to post their food pic when the instance is set up. Used to had more people posting but currently it's mostly just me posting stuff i ate from time to time and also news related to food. I'll link up all the community at the side bar from at my end when i got the time.

[-] Fjor@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Love this! I recently started up !foraging@lemm.ee, as the previous one vanished out of thin air. Got over 100subs in just a day! Was very happy to see so many partake in the joy of foraging. Hopefully more will come to share their findings. There are loads to be harvested from the natural world, that would be great additions to ones foodporn 🙌

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I had the same issue with my community (PS5) and a sister community (Playstation). My community was much more active but niche compared to the other community. Ultimately I was handed control of the sister community (PlayStation) by the former mods and both communities voted overwhelmingly to merge under the one with the larger umbrella.

I think this is something you should consider down the road. It may not be the best for now as foodporn and shittyfoodporn and recipes are all very different, but I believe lemmy is working on a flair/tagging system. When that goes live you could unify under c/food and then use tags so that users can set up the filters on their end. If someone only wants recipes, they can filter out shittyfood and foodporn. If someone only wants shittyfood, they filter the rest, etc.

Best of luck on all this. I am still working on managing the very large transition we just did. And we will be looking into mandatory flairs when the feature goes live to help those only looking for certain content.

[-] canthidium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry I'm late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I'm one of the mods of !recipes@lemmy.world, !sousvide@lemmy.world, and !koreanfood@lemmy.world.

Very interesting idea and it's something we have been talking about, especially since Lemmy is very fractured. It would probably be beneficial to combine some communities. Hopefully Lemmy grows and we can easily support the most niche communities.

I don’t do much cooking but I love the food! I’ll be sure to vote more frequently

Please do, and comment often. We love getting involved in the discussions.

[-] LoneGansel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No offense meant, but if we don't have enough active contributors to make the /c/foodporn community active, what good is fragmenting a fledging community and losing the visibility gained from posting in one area with high traffic?

Surely the strategy here should be to build a critical mass of followers in one community, then split into category specific communities based on feedback from the users on what is or is not desired. Organic growth into multiple topics vs splintering a community that's basically my food plus or minus a half dozen posts a week. Someone wining that they get no traffic doesn't really incentive me to post in their communities.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I have the same feeling.

We have experienced everyone creating their obscure communities for the last few months, but it is obvious that due to the size of Lemmy, only communities which are generic enough can get enough traction to survive

[-] LoneGansel@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a political thing.

This post has me seriously considering no longer contributing to any communities.

Edit: Mods can read the original messages, right?

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I have no idea about the politics, I think you have to admit that the food communities have not transferred from Reddit. Even the pizza subs are kinda dead. Maybe it will just take time, or maybe they won't find traction here. Idk, but I know I'm not going back to the other place. Hopefully it happens here, if it doesn't, then I will randomly post into the void about random projects.

[-] canthidium@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of !recipes@lemmy.world, !sousvide@lemmy.world, and !koreanfood@lemmy.world.

I do agree with that strategy, but I don't think there's any going back at this point. When the migration happened, people all over Lemmy created the same communities and some took off, some didn't. Most of our culinary communities weren't created during this time, but later when we found a topic we wanted to have a community around. I think also, most of our communities are generic enough to where the only next step in merging would be to just stick everything under !food@lemmy.world (I see that community has been abandoned as well).

what good is fragmenting a fledging community and losing the visibility gained from posting in one area with high traffic?

I don't understand your logic on this. You don't have to pick one community and ignore the others. Be part of them all and contribute where it fits. No one is saying you have to stop posting in one because it fits the other more. Post in all of them where it's relevant. And if some communities die off, then that's fine. It's all an experiment in my eyes.

Someone wining that they get no traffic doesn’t really incentive me to post in their communities.

You said no offense meant, and then decided to be negative in your last sentence, but to respond to this; No one is whining, we are just doing what we can to be inclusive. We are just trying to help eachother out and hopefully we all grow. I don't know what your other post about it being political was about and I don't know what you're finding so negative about us sharing eachothers communities. None of us are complaining. We're just trying to spread awareness of other communities and hope that everyone takes part and Lemmy can grow to be a fun place to be.

[-] Alchemy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Where would be the best place to ask about kitchen knives?

[-] canthidium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of !recipes@lemmy.world, !sousvide@lemmy.world, and !koreanfood@lemmy.world.

I'm not sure if there are any knife specific communities, but !recipes@lemmy.world also includes cooking tips so I'm sure we have members that are knowledgeable. Or there's also !askculinary@lemmy.world for general cooking related questions.

[-] HidingCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's awesome, I just subbed to this community after stumbling on a post in the general feed. Looking forward to everyone's posts, and I'll share when I can!

[-] canthidium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of !recipes@lemmy.world, !sousvide@lemmy.world, and !koreanfood@lemmy.world.

Awesome! This is exactly what we want to see. Thanks for joining!

[-] Hobbes@startrek.website -3 points 1 year ago

Please don't crosspost. When I see the same posts on multiple places I just block the small communities

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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