Very good! Since I made the move from Kbin to Lemmy.world I've gotten a lot more engagement (more engagement than from before Kbin went down I mean, obviously Kbin has no engagement now). Gotten ~200 subscribers on each of the refounded communities in the past month.
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I have also gone from zero people interacting with my posts to 1–4 upvotes since I stopped screaming into the dead void of kbin.social, unaware it went down since my kbin.run account managed to post the post on the magazine hosted at kbin.social until I tried to advertise it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world ([!newcommunities@lemmy.world](/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world)) and got told about kbin.social going down. Feels good to not be screaming into a void as much.
That's great, congratulations!
It took about a week to get the last 4, but I just checked and I've hit 3k subs!
I think I've leveled out. But I'm happy to have gotten this far. I'm still enjoying posting, I have regulars that add a comment or two on most posts. My views are still high.
Not sure if I'm ready to start incorporating another community into my routine or anything, but I'll have to see if anything grabs my interest.
I just discovered this community, it's pretty cool! I like these threads.
I run 2 niche communities for random train nerds in Australia: !MelbourneTrains@aussie.zone, and !BrisbaneTrains@aussie.zone. BrisbaneTrains is mostly dead, but MelbourneTrains has been going almost since this instance began, and thanks to living in Melbourne, it's a lot easier to post OC.
There's not very much activity there either, but to be fair I haven't exactly been pushing it. We currently have 260ish subscribers, and 170ish posts. I'd guess I've made about 150 of those posts. There's a few people commenting now which is nice, and OC/certain news articles often go past 20 upvotes
The curse of a lot of niche community-runners on the Fediverse: supplying most of the content ;-;
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I recently acquired !catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world. I don't think I'll have much to post there, but as the previous mod was AWOL for almost a year, I hope I'll at least be a slight improvement.
As for spaceflight and related communities, !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, !spacex@sh.itjust.works, !rocketlab@lemmy.nz are chugging along nicely, as launches and news occur. For some inexplicable reason, !spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works has more subscribers than !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, despite having less content.
Now for the communities I've neglected:
- !avs@futurology.today: Seeing some steady growth, mainly thanks to sabreW4K3.
- !tesla@lemmy.world: Not too much activity here. Thinking of trying to move the activity off world to !teslamotors@lemmy.zip.
- !boringcompany@sh.itjust.works: No activity here either.
- !hellointernet@feddit.uk: The podcast is still on HI-atus, but I managed to round up some Tims to make our mark on the 2024 fediverse canvas.
- !fedigrow@lemm.ee: Well, I'm commenting here, aren't I? Thanks, Blaze, for keeping these posts coming.
I'm not really a Tesla, but I think trying to move off of .world is a good idea. I know it's a niche problem, but my instance (as well as a few others which are located geographically quite far from Helsinki where .world is hosted), are currently running 1-2 week federation times with .world. it's a little bit better since the last Lemmy update, before that no posts would appear for around 7 days. Now posts in .world communities do appear, but only if they're posted people who aren't also on .world, and the post (as well as all comments on it) are stuck as showing a score of 0.
Apparently it has something to do with Lemmy only sending 1 federation activity at a time, which will apparently be fixed in an upcoming update. But even generally, I think it's a wise idea to decentralise a bit
Now posts in .world communities do appear, but only if they’re posted people who aren’t also on .world, and the post (as well as all comments on it) are stuck as showing a score of 0.
Oh crap, wasn't aware of that! Is there a detailed post available somewhere with graphs and data? There was one a few weeks back when Australian and New Zealand instances were impacted
I'm not sure which post that is, but that's probably us. I know lemmy.nz and monyet.cc are also affected.
There are/were some useful grafana graphs hosted on lem.rocks, but I didn't really understand them (that's wayyyy above my pay grade), and some of them don't seem to work anymore.
Awesome comment here with a good rundown of the situation as well, as well as various bits of info every other time it's been raised here, here, here, and here. I know before the root cause was figured out, someone asked in the Lemmy World meta community, but iirc their admins mostly just ignored us. But to be fair, I think this was a while ago when they were having stability issues, so it's understandable.
It sort of killed Lemmy for me, as for a while, most posts on all only had a couple hundred comments and 2 or 3 comments without the LW communities
Yes, Reddthat too.
Okay, seems like it's still the same issue from a while ago. Sorry to hear, but another reason to move off Lemmy.world.
I had created this post a while ago https://lemmy.world/post/13967373?scrollToComments=true
Seems like you guys are 2 millions actions behind LW
https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=lemmy.world (lagging instances), but Reddthat and Lemmy.nz are doing okay: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/edf3gjrxxnocgd/federation-health-activities-behind?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=reddthat.com&var-remote_instance=lemmy.nz&var-remote_software=All&from=now-12h&to=now
Is your admin on the Lemmy Admins Matrix chat? I know the Reddthat and Lemmy.nz admins are there, maybe they can help you out?
I believe what Reddthat did was setup a proxy tool someone developed. If I understand correctly, the idea behind it is that you'd deploy it to a server somewhere in Europe, the closer to the largest instances the better, that would receive all the activities one by one, then send them out in batches to the main servers, effectively fixing the problem until multiple activities can be sent at once. Perhaps lemmy.nz set that up, too?
Our admins showed a little bit of interest in it, but nothing ever came of it. Not sure if they're on the matrix, but I suppose at least one of them would be
I couldn't get anyone from reddit to move over.
I guess your community isn't going to be that popular here. People tend to centralize Reddit posts on !reddit@lemmy.world and that's it
!noyank!noyank@lemmy.ml just got its biggest post that brought maybe 40 subscribers. 'complaining' posts might get more traction than recommendations
Interesting project, must be quite hard to achieve