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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's hard, we probably made too many communities too quickly lol. But then again if you have a topic you're obsessed about then it's nice to have somewhere to post without worrying about spamming. Like I can't just endlessly post things about The 7th Guest or Deus Ex Randomizer to a normal games community, but spamming my own communities I do get some upvotes so I guess some people enjoy these posts.

I feel like people have been conditioned by Reddit to be hesitant about making posts. There's no reason for posting to have a high barrier of entry. Maybe we need to be more willing to post things, like people chatting in Discord.

And comments too, especially comments in old posts, Lemmy handles it way better than Reddit so feel free to drop comments in year old posts lol. Occasionally sort your feed by "New Comments" or "Active". I have a widget on my phone's home screen that shows my Subscribed feed sorted by New Comments. It was fun with old school forums and it's still fun on Lemmy.

Everyone else is linking their communities so what the hell https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities

Also !retrostatus@retrolemmy.com

And I post a lot to !idm@lemm.ee and !speedrun@sh.itjust.works even though I'm not a mod

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty comfy and nappy on my two kbin / mbin magazines ( @fakemon@fedia.io and @pokemonfanfiction@fedia.io ), waiting for people to arrive. Yeah, unfortunately they are like three or four layers deep within "niche of a niche of a niche of..." but what'ya gonna do? it's the stuff that interests me that doesn't already have tons of people going about it already (hi, Linux communities!).

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good luck with those!

Are there active generic Pokemon communities on Lemmy/Mbin? I think I've never seen any

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Danke!

I know there are a few generic Pokémon communities on lemmy. !pokemon@lemmy.ml is the one I see more content in but 80% of the time is just news announcements. We do have !pokemon@lemm.ee at home, too! And there's communities for Pokémon on both kbin.social and lemmy.world but they seem to be having federation issues (or I am), as I can't see full threads / posts from most of my instances, instead having to visit them directly.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect, moderation tools to help the smaller discussions grow would be useful here too.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I guess that's the downside of being able to land on all with a topic posted to a niche community, which basically would never happen on reddit.

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