I get a lot of upvotes but barely any contribution from my 1.7k followers

I do not aspire to be a volunteer internet janitor.

I mod 9 communities. It's quieted down a lot, but I'm not working hard to drive engagement and content back up right now.

The mod tools are practically non-existent, so why should I work to bring a community to a place where I won't be able to manage it?

I need to see a feed of just what I moderate so I can scan all comments for issues. It's not realistic to read every post one by one.

There needs to be options for minimum 'karma" score so a new user can't just pop in and spam.

There are other needs that have been discussed in other threads already, but that's my biggest gripe.

I mod a lot of stuff...

!gameart@sopuli.xyz is approaching 1k subs, and !streetmoe@ani.social recently crossed 100 subs, meaning all the "moe" communities I'm trying to get started now have at least 100 subs.

I'm also around on !titanfall@lemmy.world and !linux@sopuli.xyz.

!overlord@sopuli.xyz might come alive once the movie drops, and !helltaker@sopuli.xyz is a place I'm keeping warm for any other fans looking for a place for the fandom. But there is unlikely to be more happening around that game.

On most of communities I moderate, almost all content comes from me. I hope that this will change.

I mod a few communities, they are doing well so far

I'm moderating a handful of communities, most of which I want to get going and a few that I'm keeping an eye on till someone else takes over (ex. Provinces/territories)

Some communities have hit the threshold, and others I'm working to get rolling still. The mod tools though are very ineffective, and any post that spirals will take a long time to clean up. You need to open the post and systematically remove content in the correct order else you lose access to rule breaking content.

If the communities were half as big as Reddit, I don't think we could keep them clean

I am trying hard to get !geocaching@lemmy.world going, although I'm not a mod myself. Subscriber numbers are growing, but it's still rare that someone else posts. I just try to keep plugging away at a sustainable pace. Luckily I have a repository of pictures and stories to share, which dates back several years

I am a mod at !gaybros@lemmy.world. I wish there was more content, but it is not bad.Lemmy is still at the start.

Hopefully more and more users start seeing the benefit of having a platform that is not enriching the wallets of the shareholders and is instead something by the users for the users.

I started a few communities and it's hilarious to me which ones are doing well and which ones aren't. I start a community about the popular tv show Survivor, zero interaction and a surprising amount of negativity and downvotes for some reason.

Then I have a joke one about doing household dishes and people seem to love it. I get interaction, other users posting content, lots of upvotes, and a few confused people wondering why the community even exists.

I generate most of the content on my communities but I keep the amount at a level I can handle daily without stress. Here's to hoping for more original content from other community users soon :)

I'm a mod in many places. A mod of several Tumblr groups (most of them for conflict resolution), of this Discord server, of a now-dead DeviantArt group that used to be very popular (you could say the popularity broke it), and of a Gab group I'm probably going to delete soon, among others. Most recently I was hired as a mod for !casualconversation@lemmy.world and I think this made me the happiest, I've enjoyed r/casualconversation and so this feels very special to me. I eternally thank them.

I moderate a few, but only three of them are really active enough to require any kind of active moderation. But the fact that reports don't federate properly for communities hosted on remote instances is a real pain in the rear

I moderate 1 community here, and I had a discussion with other (potentional) members that my reddit reposter bot should be disabled, and instead make our own content, and I yielded to the popular vote.

Okay I guess

Back in late June, I was thinking of making a community here. While drawing up more concrete plans for it, I realized it'd be way too much work for me, even ignoring the fact that I'm completely new to the task of moderation (and hence, would likely fumble around in handling issues). Furthermore, a lot of related communities I've followed never went anywhere, which discouraged me.

All that's ignoring the fact that I was thinking of creating an extremely niche community (a community for Anki, focusing on its use for language learning), I decided it's not yet time. I was too late to capitalize the early stages of migration, but I'm too early to capitalize on the number of people being able to support niche communities.

I just started moderating for a hockey community, but it's very small right now. There are a decent number of subscribers, but not a lot of engagement. I'm trying to add bots with stats and things to enhance the experience and make people want to engage there. But the API I was using to get stats just went through a dramatic change for the first time in 5+ years, and it broke all my code. :(

I have a few hundred subscribers but every post made by a handful of users is immediately downvoted. Not lemmys favorite sub reddit. But its been what I expected and seems like new people join all the time.

My server has like 3 members and I’m okay with it. I like the fact that I am not beholden to a corporation or another server.

Yes, !tomswifty@midwest.social is going well. I reached out to some of the more active posters from reddit and at least one moved over to lemmy.

I see a lot niche of a niche communities(music->genre -> genre variation; programming language ->web/db -> specific language), i imagine that would be hard to find them unless you are looking for them.

I mod two, one with about 800 subscribers and about 8 active people. I interact with them daily.

I mod the Star Wars Community on db0, but there is literally no engagement. There's a little more on the lemmy.world community, but not much, really.

Moderator of !askmen@lemmy.world, not particularly active, but that's fine with me.

Up until now i didnt have to do anything in the community I moderate. On reddit, it’s a lot more but some communities here are pretty toxic and seem to have no moderation at all.

I started a community on waveform.social, it was not very active so I didn't check it every day. One day when I went to check on it, the whole instance had shutdown.

On technicality I am a mod of the letterboxed (nyt game) community, but only because our actual mod added me because I was more well versed with lemmy at that point. She has done everything, I have done literally nothing.