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[Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities? (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I was happy to have one post really blow up this week. Got about 3x normal upvotes, and I was getting conversation well into the next day, which never happens. Had another do pretty well with maybe 50% more votes than normal.

Neither one was something I expected to be big, both were simple pictures posts with no significant commentary, but they really seemed to grab attention. The All feed felt a bit lacking this week to me, I'm assuming with Labor Day weekend people were getting in those last summer vacations, so maybe that explains a bit more exposure for the posts?

Other than that, the whole cat food mod drama was really something. I deleted a few replies before posting. I didn't want to get drug into that mess. I think the World crew dealt with it mostly ok, but I'm not totally thrilled with some of their decisions. Their call though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Besides this, curious to see a lot of drama related communities lately

There are definitely a few things to follow there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really wish people used [email protected], from a quick look the three you put seem to be about specifically Fediverse drama

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure there is enough hobby discussions on Lemmy to have hobby drama 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't think the hobby drama subreddit back on the old site required the drama to be on-site. You could post about the time WotC tried to revoke their OGL, or when Hans Niemann allegedly used an anal vibrator to cheat at chess, or things like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You would be 100% correct. It was for long-form high quality writeups of drama in a hobby, not looking at drama specifically on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, that makes sense!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

[email protected] is getting some posts by other people, that's nice

Still working on [email protected] and [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gonna get back to the Daily posting on my very own echo chambers! Also known as [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

These are awesome. Is imgur what you're going to for posting images?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[email protected] was always a slower sub on Reddit, but I've yet to find a good way to directly link to mp4s without shelling out $50 a month or relying on community supported sites. Even then I just found out Inline videos aren't supported on all instances (lemmy.world | it works on lemm.ee), and even still, not every app is doing in-app playback.

Posts do get decent traction, but I don't think we're going anywhere until this video thing gets sorted out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have seen someone use https://toobnix.org for videos, which is in the Fediverse.

Part of me wants to upload videos to Fediverse places and link there, part of me wants to stick them on YouTube and link to that because I feel bad using Fediverse resources, all the space my video takes up, but have no guilt using up YouTube's resources.