To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
[email protected] is also an important community on the host instance and has a decent base by now.
I'm just happy its on a relevant instance since it would've been much easier to grow it on lemmy.world but I didn't want another Lemmy.world community
I was so happy with the community at [email protected] this week!
We got posts from 5 other people this week, which I think is a record, and they were really good, and some were non-US as well.
I've passed 5000 comments, the majority of which have been within the community, and I'm over 900 posts. I've been able to maintain 3 posts a day for a while now.
Been seeing a number of new commenters as well and got another DM thank you from someone for posting happy stuff for them every day.
I've been depressed and now sick recently, so the community has been a very positive element in my life, so I'm glad everyone is still enjoying what I do.
Reading other communities, I feel people have been getting a little touchier and crude in some of their language, so I feel it is important to keep positive spaces here.
The owls in my feed never fail to lighten up my day!
I hope you're doing better, and I'm happy to hear that the community is bringing something positive to you as well! There's at least no doubt there's a lot of us who appreciate the effort. :)
Yes, my actual medical depression is still properly treated, it's just a combo of job dissatisfaction and my girlfriend has started work after finishing college, and she works 3x 12 hr days Sat-Mon so my schedule is out of whack and I've trashed my already poor sleep hygiene trying to find a new routine. Doing my daily posts is the only thing occuring at "the proper time" anymore, so it at least syncs me up at the start of each day, and the happy comments throughout the day give me things to look forward to.
I caught the killer head cold she's been having for the last week as well, and it seems my body decided to speedrun it and I hardly left the bed over the weekend.
Everyone is always so supportive in the community, I'm always so glad I decided that if nobody else was going to make it active that it was up to me. I spend a lot of time on it, but I feel it is productive and the positive feedback I get makes the work feel more useful than any actual job I've had.
Oooff, that's harsh. My girlfriend is currently in the process of finishing up her PhD, and my job recently exploded in my face, so I can relate a little to parts of what you're going through. At least good to hear you're dealing with the cold efficiently, even if it's hell while it's going on!
My substitute partner at work today was more sympathetic than my normal coworker, so that made a big difference. I'm feeling pretty good compared to the weekend, but my throat is screwed up and my decongestant seems to have worm off after 8 hours as opposed to the 12 hours of relief promised to me by the box. 🤧
Pretty happy with [email protected] it is on its way to 300 people and has several active subscribers. If a discussion-type thread is started (rather than a recommendation thread) it does get discussion going.
Not what I was expecting, but I like it! 😆
Didn't about this community, nice concept
Very happy with [email protected] and the matches thread now, thank you @[email protected]
Just glad it's making a positive impact, can't ask for more as a programmer :)
I should post there a lot more
Please do!
I'd like to see a sports specific instance (just something like lemmy.sport) so we could have all the sport communities on one instance, rather than all over the place, and also avoid the weird politics and who's (not) federated with who issues.
e.g. [email protected]
That has been exactly my reasoning when I created the topic specific instances, and I have been trying to convince @[email protected] to get out of LW and into [email protected]
Regarding a "general" sports instance, I have setup https://athletic.center/ some long ago, but never got to create communities for it. I was thinking of using it for less sports that are less "professional" and more suitable for hobby practitioners (e.g, sailing, skiing, diving, swimming, CrossFit, etc) the main reason, to be totally honest, is that sport.* are quite expensive.
For people curious, we had a long discussion last week: https://feddit.org/post/2471872/1817865
In summary
Running the topic based instances are not the main costs. Even if I went to shut down Communick (I won't, because believe it or not it's getting close to break even) the last thing I would let go are the domains, which can/could be easily transferred to some organization.
I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?
I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?
I already mod too many communities, there was a call last week that I declined.
At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that's not only me posting.
Once we'll get there, we can discuss where to bring the community.
At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that’s not only me posting.
I'd be posting as well, and if you see the NFL communities, they are also getting some momentum from Mastodon users.
Also, as @[email protected] brought up some time ago, it's not soccer, it's football
But don't get another domain just for us
Buddy, you are running out of excuses... ;)
Just ask any European football fan how they call the game
I am not arguing that. I am just saying that this is a very lame reason to avoid using it.
If I had found any "football" or "footy" domain that costs less than an used car, I would have used it. But soccer was cheaper, and football@soccer is redundant and kind of senseless.
To be fair, it kind of irritates me now to have to go to /r/soccer on Reddit
That might be one way to get people there to give Lemmy a try "it's finally the proper name of the game"
Nonsense. There is also /r/football, which is quite large and to me has more interesting discussion than /r/soccer and less obnoxious mods, but /r/soccer still maintains its dominance.
It's not the name that matters. It's the content and the match threads.
Wait, I thought that /r/football was about 🏈 and that's why they had to go to soccer 🤔
Really curious how this happened
It happened a while back. r/football actually sponsors a football team now, via some reddit program they won.
I'm still not convinced on rglullis' business model
They need $300000 - $450000 a year to live in minimal comfort? Sounds real modest :)
😅
[email protected] has been growing steadily whether I post or not. Its now a decent size and I haven't checked but I think more relevant on Lemmy than don't dead open inside which would be the closest comparison.
Also a community that came through organically on Lemmy and not an import from the other site!
[email protected] , thanks for sharing!
I think there is another one that don't dead open inside (basically the orders of the words is different), but I don't remember the name
there is another one that don't dead open inside (basically the orders of the words is different), but I don't remember the name
That would be [email protected]! Over 250 subscribers in just a week!
Nice growth for [email protected] , we'll probably surpass [email protected] soon
Edit: actually, we already did
[email protected] just hit 1000 tummy enjoyers! Wooo!
Also [email protected] is a huge success. Regular commenters. Hit a hundred subs in just a few days. Now increasing more slowly but steadily.
Now increasing more slowly but steadily.
You've just got one more!
Congrats !
I'm not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.
Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I'll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don't know.
I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of 'BD' and the little tidbits I write up, there's not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN's, and who also want to spend time posting.
This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they've been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.
I guess European graphic novels might be popular in French (sometimes you see some on [email protected] ) but in English it's definitely more niche
Aside from personally posting more regularly there, any advice or ideas for getting [email protected] going? Had a few people early on posting and even some people beside myself replying to them, but it rapidly trailed off from there and felt a little too much like I was only using it for myself.
Started to make other types of post to help show it's as much for sharing as asking, but while the posts had some passive positive attention, it didn't net much more activity.