Finally made the backup community for [email protected] over at [email protected].
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Well done!
Been trying to get some life into [email protected], but it's been slow growing the subscriber count. I'm really happy to see [email protected] 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.
I really enjoy the board games community!
Thank you for board games, it's nice!
Not my communities, but I'm getting tired of the constant federation issues with lemdro.id communities...
Didn't notice it was a thing
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] are you guys aware of this?
It's probably harder to notice with c/android because it has a lot of subscribers, so when your post finally appears on other instances after 10 hours, you might still get some interactions, but in other communities your post is pretty much doomed to be dead at that point.
Site is actually down
Yeah, it's definitely having some problems.
[email protected] 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!
[email protected] is pretty chill, just me posting pics of my dog I don't expect that to go anywhere. It's just for fun.
I've recently started three communities, right now they are basically just me posting journal entries, or things I organically find along the internet.
[email protected] Is all science based journaling
[email protected] Is casual LCHF discussion
[email protected] Is casual Carnivore discussion.
The last community got lots of negative attention, the name was unfortunate, but that is the name in the literature and it is triggering for some of the other lemmy users. ASF is used on occasion, but that is mostly in agriculture literature.
I've found it is useful to have a journal that you can link to, and discuss with people, so its a net positive use case, though it is very niche.
For the casual communities I look for content that can prime the social pump so people feel comfortable interacting (mostly youtube cooking videos for now)
Not my topic of interest, but only happy to see more niche communities pop up.
Good luck!
[email protected] really starting to overthrow [email protected]. Pinging the last few posters on the midwest.social to the post helps.
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.
It’s silly behavior and we can do better than this.
It should be limited to groups banning each other and ignoring each other (after all, that's the point of the Fediverse, to be able to ignore whoever you want and create your own space), but LW latest announcement just brought all the drama to the next level.
They still have to do another one, not sure if I'm looking forward to it or afraid they mess up again.
The problem is that toxicity leeches out across the fediverse which stifles growth as more and more negativity makes it to front pages around the web. I don't have the solution either but I do think more accountability is needed for users and moderators across the fediverse.
Due to human nature, drama is "juicy", people like to witness it, and may even pick teams in a conflict. That's unfortunate indeed, but not sure what we can do about it.
not sure what we can do about it.
Discourage it instead of fanning the flames. Take a stance against bad faith actors and trolls, the same shit we've always done.
I think out of desperation to grow and thrive a lot of things are being let go and ignored. As always, this will only lead to things deteriorating until the place is detestable like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Instead of embracing the things we can do better than those platforms we've carved out a space on many of the major instances for the worst of these people, and that's a mistake IMO.
Take a stance against bad faith actors and trolls, the same shit we’ve always done.
Who's the bad faith actor between vegans and carnivores?
Look at the science you will know.
Don't know, I don't engage with that nonsense.
Editing to add:
Let's not pretend there aren't shitheads on every side of every argument. If people are behaving in ways that aren't what the home instances want, they should be dealt with by their instance admins and moderation. Doesn't matter if you eat meat, plants, or paint chips. We don't have to be like this, it's a choice.
Fair
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