Great post - it's an excellent idea to highlight communities not on .ml or .world as it helps spread the love and the load.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2024
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Fedigrow
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Resources:
- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- [email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
- [email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Megathreads:
- How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
- Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)
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founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Pro:
- Active community and known name
Cons:
- I posted to [email protected] to see if the instance and the community are still managed. I don't think so based on the feedback so far, so that's probably an issue: https://reddthat.com/post/20244906?scrollToComments=true
- I asked the mods on Matrix several times about adding other more active mods, no answer so far.
Maybe I'm missing context or misunderstanding something here, but isn't it a little early to say the instance/community aren't being managed? There doesn't even seem to have that much relevant feedback to base anything on, so far.
Furthermore, privacyguides isn't just a known name to me, it's also a well regarded one. I appreciate them having an official community on Lemmy, so that pro carries a certain weight with it.
P.S. thank you for your efforts towards reducing centralization and unnecessary reliance on lemmy.ml.
Hello,
For some additional context:
- Lemmy.one was among the last instances on 0.19.2. I asked about it, which triggered their update: https://lemmy.one/post/13900606
- Jonah, the main mod of the !privacyguides community, and single admin of the instance hasn't posted in the last 5 months: https://lemmy.one/u/jonah, same for the rest of the mods of that community
- Their pinned post at the instance level is still the 0.19.0 update 6 months ago
- The last moderation action in !privacyguides modlog was 3 months ago (https://lemmy.one/modlog/10)
So indeed, the name is known and that's a pro (I mentioned it in the top comment), but it seems like the instance and the community aren't actively looked after.
Edit: last point: the instance has 7k registered users for 230 active users a month, email verification was optional during registration, seems like people have been using it as a farmbot (registration has since then been disabled).