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A few communities possibly worth tending (lemmy.world)
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Slightly surprised to find the Adulting, Career Guidance, and Jobs communities haven't gained too much traction, or in one case stalled out. Although these communities aren't the most exciting or uplifting, so it also makes sense.

I'm talking about the following on Lemmy World specifically:

Given the second community never went anywhere, it's probably best to instead focus on Jobs if anyone was interested. Unfortunately in the case of both the Jobs and Adulting community, the moderators no longer seem to be active to coordinate with to help the communities along.

In looking about the only similar communities I could find to these were on other instances one might also consider too large or controversial, if not both (e.g. Lemmy ml and Lemmygrad). Given their lack of activity, if there was enough interest they might be rebuilt on other instances with more effort to get them going. However, seeing as that already seems to be something of an uphill struggle, revitalizing what's here might be preferable.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

To be completely honest, I simply do not want to contribute to anything that is on lemmy.world. Nothing against them, but I do not want to further increase the network dependence on any single instance.

If these communities were created on a smaller instance or (better yet) a topic-specific server, I'd gladly find a way to contribute and bootstrap them.

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

Same here

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

As noted, seeing as they're neither consistently active nor terribly large (Adulting is the largest of the two with any posts), building them on other instances now would probably be just as well. They're decent enough topics to try to build communities around imo.

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

Indeed. Do you have any instance in mind to host them?

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

I've been saying since I got here that topic specific instances are the way to go with this concept. I'm hosted on Lemmy.World, but if I were to seperate posts by local, it wouldn't do much. I'd just see a bunch of random community posts.

But if I were on Lemmy.Sports, and seperated by local, I'd see a bunch of sports stuff. Then I could go to Lemmy.Videogames and see a bunch of video games stuff.

Then I could go to Lemmy.Photography, and see a bunch of communities about photography.

Then you could have these all-in-one instances like Lemmy.World, where you have communites that don't make sense to be on a dedicated instance. Niche topics, that the community itself is all that's needed.

And make it so you can go to other instances home pages, and sort by local, while still logged in. That would help too.

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

Keep in mind that instances (not just communities, but instances) come and go. Worst case, if an instance dies, yes, a community can move to a new instance, but you might want to consider several factors when choosing an instance to start a new community.

  • How long has the instance been around?
  • How is the instance hosted, governed, funded? Donations, non-profit, some rando's spare laptop, etc.
  • Which other instances are they federated with, and which instances are they not federated with?
  • Are the instance admins active?
  • How often do the admins update the instance to the latest version of Lemmy software?
  • Other personal preferences, e.g., does the instance have alternate front ends, etc.

If you decide to just take over one of the existing communities whose current admins are no longer active, you can request for the LW admins to appoint you as moderator of said communities. Do try reaching out to the existing admins first. But yeah, if nothing else, you could then facilitate a transition to the new instance, e.g., poll the active users to see if they want to move, and if so, then lock the community and post a link so new users can find the other instance.