Fedigrow

Hello everyone,

Some context: it is usually agreed here than centralization of communities on Lemmy.world is detrimental to Lemmy as a federated platform (see this post https://sopuli.xyz/post/11972110 for detailed explanations), which is why a few communities have been started to get general topics off LW:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• etc.

One topic that is still quite popular today is television, and there are basically two options

• [email protected] which some people prefer to avoid, which makes sense. Also, it's currently unmoderated except by the Automod bot, the last human bot left a few days ago.
• [email protected] which is known to be managed by a single mod prompt to power tripping mod (see https://lemm.ee/post/30754133)

I am thus opening this thread to see if people would be interesting in opening a television community elsewhere. I'm going to ping the last posters on that topic in the comments.

Edit: the objective here is to find potential moderators for that new community.

See you around

Never been a mod before or anything. I was thinking that if we start getting people of all levels or interests to ask questions. And I would probably later think of doing a secconed community for AMA's any help would be greatly appreciated.

[email protected] ([email protected]) has one mod who has not touched their account in 11 months. How do I request ownership/mod of the community? Also, is there anywhere to solicit mods from? I mostly want it because I know I am active, and would be interested in turning it over to someone else as soon as I find someone who wants to, and who will keep it actually bunny rabbits instead of turning it into a NSFW for Playboy Bunnies.

I am almost done with the "Community Ambassador" feature on Fediverser and I'd like to get some feedback from members of this community.

The idea is to let people connected to a "fediversed" Lemmy instance (i.e, one that is running the Fediverser service) to apply to become an ambassador for their favorite community. The instance admin can then review the "application", and if approved they get access to some extra features in the "portal", namely:

• The ability to define "content sources" (RSS feeds and/or other subreddits) to have a central place to find interesting content that can be shared with the Lemmy Community.

• The ability to post content from these sources with one single click.

• Some basic analytics about users on Reddit (account age, if they are moderator, etc) to help identify users who would be interested in migrating to Lemmy.

• The ability to send DMs to those "good candidates" on Reddit.

The "development" instance is set up at https://lemmy.fediverser.io/. It would be great to get more people taking a look. The earlier I get feedback about UX issues, the better. The preferred method to signup is through the portal.

So one thing I miss about reddit is the idea that I can just find any random topic, and there's an active sub for that.

Reddits biggest problem is knowing these subreddits exist. I was there over 10 years, and still finding new subs until the end.

Lemmys biggest problem is that these communities DON'T exist, and even if they did, theres no audience to support them. No point in making a niche community if theres 0 posts, and 1 subscribber.

But, I found one small fix. This won't be the thing that boosts Lemmy to the top. This will be more like the small spark that could lead to a bigger fire. Without more steps, this won't be the answer. But think of this as one step of many.

So over at [email protected] they have a content bot. I assume it's just reposting the posts on reddit from a predesignated source.

But, what if we did that all over Lemmy? Start up /c/Archer and repost everything from ArcherFX. I don't see a place to post Archer stuff to.

Now do this for thousands of different subreddits over here.

Yes, at first the content bot would have 0 posts. But thats where WE come in. We all start posting on these threads, to give them the sense of activity. Activity breeds activity. And soon enough you'll have enough organic activity that you slowly start reducing these bots roles. But thats years from now.

Basically, title. I'll list the existing options in the comments, feel free to discuss each of them there

Tried to sort out some communities with icons. Not sure it matters, but it's my deed for the day.

I'd love a Nature is Fucking Lit community over here on Lemmy. I just saw the cutest post on Reddit there and I'd love to spread it or see it over here. (I look at reddit without a profile while at my work computer sometimes, don't judge me lol).

Think I should post it to the lemmy.world one to revive that one? Looks like that hasn't been active in a few months.

I also wonder if it's better to use this opportunity when it's possibly dead to revive the community somewhere else? Like maybe mander.xyz since nature is connected to science or something? Or maybe the solar punk instance? Is there a better place someone can think of or should we stick to the Lemmy.world one?

What do people think?

The only successful example I found the other day was https://old.reddit.com/r/FloatingIsFun/, now [email protected]

If a few other communities could move over there, that would help make the platform more active.

There is a banned subreddit that recently moved here (I won't mention it to avoid them getting raided, but if you browse All you probably know which one I'm talking about), that was very interesting, and some proof that the current tools (the websites, the mobile apps, the interfaces) could work for people outside of the usual "tech / Linux / FOSS" bubble.

What do you think?

Right now on Lemmy we have a bunch of dad-based communities with varying levels of discussion. From the ones I can find, we have:

[email protected] - last few posts were about a month ago. Mod was last active 10 months ago.

[email protected] - last couple posts were about 2 months ago. The post before that was about 5 months ago. Not sure about mod activity.

[email protected] - last post was yesterday, with some other posts in past few weeks. Mod was last active 6 months ago.

[email protected] - last post was a few weeks ago, with a couple months in between posts after that. Mod was last active 10 months ago.

[email protected] - last couple posts were a week ago. With about a month or so between posts after that. Both mods were last active a year ago.

[email protected] - last post was 3 months ago. Mod was last active 2 months ago.

[email protected] - last post was about a month ago, and the one before that was about 4 months ago. Mod was last active today.

To help facilitate discussion, what do you all think about consolidating the dad-based discussion to one of those groups (preferably a somewhat moderated one, which just seems to be fatherverse…) for now?

Modlog visible here: https://lemmy.world/modlog/2

Or on [email protected]

I have no stake in this argument (centralization on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world is detrimental in my opinion), but I found it kind of ironic.

Not sure if this is the best place to post it, but didn't know of any "neutral" fediverse communities, so I guess this one works.

Edit: the thread itself: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

Some examples of removals/bans: https://reddthat.com/post/20718767/11186767

Same logic as for the !dataisbeautiful is another thread, let's discuss a few options in the comments below

I live in California and am sick of good legislation being sidelined by lobbyists. So, let's identify ideas for how voters (in any state) can improve their situation via direct democracy

I previously posted this topic on the main Star Wars community, but it was removed for being too meta. Which is fair enough but it does leave is in a Catch 22 situation as you can't exactly get a SW instance started if you can't discuss starting one. Fortunately, @[email protected] was kind enough to suggest this instance would be a good venue for such discussions, so here we are.

So here's the original post with additional thoughts arising from the discussion or subsequent pondering:

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In a Fediverse, far far away...

I have been involved in a few discussions about how to help the Fediverse grow and diversify and one thing I feel is key is to have more specific instances rather than large general purposes ones. It helps people when they are signing up and can help give communities a home. I know because I signed up with feddit.uk, helped grow the place and am now part of the Admin team.

Or, to cut a long story short, should there be a Star Wars Lemmy instance? Today seems the perfect time to open the discussion.

After all, there are other focused instances like:

• startrek.website
• sffa.community
• literature.cafe
• ttrpg.network
• adultswim.fan
• dormi.zone
• futurology.today
• lemmy.radio
• hobbit.world

Could move across existing communities:

[edit: see more comprehensive list below]

And there are a lot of potential others:

• A community per film and show
• SW Books - with potential to spin-off popular and long-running series
• SW Comics
• SW Board Games
• SW Video Games
• SW Cosplay
• SW Helmets
• SW Lightsabers
• SW Galaxy of Heroes
• The Empire Did Nothing Wrong

Possible names? A lot of obvious ones will have been scooped up or you risk copyright infringement, but how about:

• Fediverse's Edge

[edit: I found a discussion on the old place, about starting a Star Wars Mastodon instance and you could share resources and expertise by Hosting them on the same server. Which led me to suggest Fediverse's Edge as the umbrella domain with the Mastodon instance at Tootooine and thr Lemmy one at something like Lemmandalore). If you were doing this then you could also include an instance of BookWyrm, Galactic Library?, that would bring the Star Wars novels and comics front and centre. It could be a good example for others thinking of setting up instances for transmedia franchises like this - a Marvel part of the Fediverse, for example. It would really help people sign up to a chunk of the Fediverse as it is either all in one place or you could direct people elsewhere, to, say, a Pixelfed instance dedicated to toy photography.

Other name suggestions:

• tattooine.social
• dagobah.space
• hoth.books
• coruscant.forum
• bespin.io
• thesenate.domain
• thesenate.im
• unknownregion ]

May the FOSS be with you.

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Those who contributed to that previous thread are: @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

And some who have been engaged in Star Wars instance discussion since (why I am bumping this post up my to-do list: @[email protected] @[email protected] ]

I also had a second post removed that listed all the Star Wars communities and it was relevant for this discussion to show the breadth of existing Star Wars discussion on here:

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As a lot haven't federated over to my instance I went digging, so you may as well have the list:

Star Wars:

• [email protected] - you are here
• [email protected] [edit: this has since been locked]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Misc:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

TV and film:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Games:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

[edit: I've since started [email protected] ]

NSFW:

• [email protected] - in case you are unsure, it's definitely NSFW

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Those who contributed to this thread: @[email protected]

Edit: Update: community is created, [email protected] !

Edit: Update: posted to [email protected] for their feedback: https://reddthat.com/post/20241853

Hello everyone,

The most current active community is [email protected].

Due to all the discussions that are now happening on [email protected] about moving away from lemmy.ml due to their abuse moderation practices (https://feddit.nl/post/16246531), should we consider creating an alternative.

[email protected] exists but seems unmanaged and I would rather avoid another LW community.

Maybe we could contact mander.xyz at [email protected] to see what they think?

[email protected] has been locked down in favor of [email protected]

[email protected] was locked down today in favor of [email protected]

Are there other communities we should try to consolidate?

We had a few AMA in the past, the most recent one being by a director/actor on [email protected] : https://lemm.ee/post/31335226?scrollToComments=true

Those seems like a good opportunity to promote the platform.

Who do you think would be a good candidate that we could reach out to?

Link to the graphs: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats