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[email protected] is now over 1200 users which is staggering. There's some absolutely lovely people posting there which is great.
[email protected] numbers have gone up a lot recently! They're a fantastically supportive community so I'm really pleased.
I recently created [email protected] and it's been quite a growth. 336 subscribers in 5 days. It's a community to find games by describing it. There are quite a few games found already, which makes me happy.
[email protected] and [email protected] have slowed down. Both in posting and activity. I should find some interesting games to post there again. It's where most of my passion in gaming is. And I love the games of yesteryear. Communities won't grow without posts to back it up, and I've been slacking.
[email protected] My alternative gaming community has reached 96 subscribers, so close to 100. I wanted to explain a little a bit the reasons for making the community and what the difference is between other Indie gaming communities.
Before making this community, I searched for communities for "indie games" and found only one active on lemmy.ml, so I thought an indie gaming community that is not on .ml would be nice. My mistake was though that I did not search for "indie gaming," which made me misd the community on Lemmy.world, which I was pointed out to me later. But at that time I already had quite a few subscribers, and I had made many posts. So I did not want to close the community.
So I started trying to make it different from other Indie gaming communities. One thought I had even before finding out about indie gaming was to focus more on the smaller indie titles and Foss games. The Problem with that idea was I did not know where to draw the line; what should be considered a small indie game? In the end, I decided to drop the idea and allow all the indie games, but I personally would focus a bit more on titles that are somewhat smaller.
A difference that existed since the conception of the community was that I specifically allow NSFW content to be posted. Because I believe adult games are as much part of gaming as other games, and I think most apps and clients allow NSFW content blocking in case someone does not want to see it.
New recent changes I have made to differentiate it from other communities are that it is now allowed to post game mods and ROM hacks. Additionally, it allowed posting free or commercial links to game assets for others to use in their indie games that they are developing.
So in the end [email protected] is an indie gaming++ community. So feel free to join if you think it is something for you.
I curate [email protected] and also post a lot in [email protected]. Happy to occasionally crosspost some of the more mainline content (it's still almost all indie games) to [email protected].
That would be nice, thanks.
Sounds great, good luck!
Thank you
I created [email protected] a few days ago. It started with 55 default sub's from Lemmy-federate bots, but now already has 200 subs, and users participating with their own art!
Quite pleased with the community response, and grateful to retrolemmy.com for hosting it. They were the perfect instance for that community, and seem to run a tight ship :)
It started with 55 default sub’s from Lemmy-federate bots
Huh!
So... how does that work, if I might ask?
You can start a community and somehow assign dozens of bots to it, instantly pumping up the numbers, so to speak...?
Lemmy-Federate is a project that automatically subscribes a single bot account from participating instances to essentially pre-seed a community across those instances. The net effect of doing that is posts made to that community will show up on those instances /all feed, and the community itself will show up if users on those instances search it (instead of having to use the lemmyverse.net community search to discover it exists, and then manually federate the community to their instance by searching the community URL in their local instance's search bar).
Once a real user from a participating instance subscribes to the community, the bot account will unsubscribe.
It makes it much, much easier to get a new community rolling, as otherwise it could take quite some time for people across instances to discover it and be federated naturally (which is even more of an issue on smaller instances, where there may not be a large/active local community to kick things off).
Pardon the late reply, and wow, sounds interesting. As well as hugely practical. oO
Thanks for the extensive reply!
I wish I could say I understood this 'bot' stuff better. For example, it seems some instances allow the creation and auto-administration of bot accounts, but I don't think mine does (lemm.ee). It sounds like for other instances, though, that's something of a feature.
To be clear-- the goal for my community would be to have a scheduled bot drip daily or semi-daily content, freeing me up to work on longer-form pieces.
There was in fact a 3rd-party tool that worked exactly that way for a while, but it seems it eventually broke due to a key update by the Lemmy software.
Thanks! That's a cool community, we're happy to have you
We mostly try to keep the server running, and let people be people. Not much admin work to do on a small instance. Thankfully. But we're happy to have you!
Don't sell yourselves short, your instance has a lot going for it due to your efforts!
All that takes time and effort to maintain, and a surprising amount of smaller instances can lack that. So cheers for all that you do, appreciate it man :)
Haha. Thanks a lot! Even though most of it is due to self interest :p
Been a little while since I popped into one of these threads. Some notable events:
Thank you for your work!
Thanks for your work on ani.social :) and probably the rest of the Fediverse, I think I have seen you on my many, many Elevator7009 alts including the dead Kbin ones.
Our instance and communities have continued their slow and steady growth.
Good to see crazypeople.online still having steady growth.
Thanks! I've been quite chuffed with the local user growth over the last month or so. Several of the recent applicants have mentioned finding us through reddit threads or search engines which is great because it means we're getting exposure as a very small instance to people who've never heard of Lemmy before. I'm not sure what more we could hope for.
I feel like you also have a bit of an advantage because people who don't really care about lemmy might not care about an address like lemmy.zip, but crazypeople.online gets attention, as would ani.social from anime enjoyers like myself.
Since PieFed activated crosspost for video, i recently shared lot of them. Mainly scientific one and news. The fediverse is amazing.
So my communities : [email protected], [email protected] are being revived. I'm still waiting for the revival of indie game newsletter "manettes et chouquettes".
I only miss french international news on the fediverse to help my community [email protected] I'm happy with our progress. :)
[email protected] had a downturn of new member growth, but suddenly surged in last 2 days (from like +5 in two days to +20). Still plugging away. Most posts get comments and engagement.
[email protected] plugging away similarly. Obviously is much slower.
!dull_[email protected] got a flurry of posts after nearly two weeks of inactivity. [email protected] has been getting regular posts and we're at over 500 subscribers.
I'm considering a safety focused community called "safety" or likewise to promote safety where people can post about near misses and lessons learned and have a monthly or weekly safety topic.
[email protected] is still very active. [email protected] still consists mostly of reposts without any comments.
Not building it, but [email protected] is very nice as it includes Mastodon/Sharkey posts using linked hashtags
it includes Mastodon/Sharkey posts using linked hashtags
Oh wow, may I ask how that works, Blaze?
Since we don't have a functional posting bot to drip content these days, it would surely be nice if I could get content from adjacent platforms to auto-post on a regular basis to our community.
You can configure Mbin communities to follow hashtags and include posts mentioned those hashtags
Tried to post a few cards on [email protected]. Good content isn't that easy to find, /r/MapPorn is very low quality nowadays
[email protected] still getting regular activity
In parallel, I resumed posting on [email protected], it's nice to just have a place to talk about chill stuff