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It's a bit of a mixed bag, and the real thing is that there are other people who want to talk about it here. Trust me, I run a Taylor Swift community here, and it is an uphill battle - but it's worth it because there are people who care and enjoy the community.
If you're up for it, choose one or two communities and then nurture them. When reddit imploded 2 years ago we came over and we had a ton of people open hundreds of communities and then abandon them, people just opened them left and right and then expected a large audience the next day. Instead expect it to follow the 90-9-1 rule. Out of a hundred people, 90 of them will lurk and never participate. 9 will comment, and one will post. You will need to be the one to post for a while - but it will grow over time.
Take care of the communities, let them know you're here to stay, and that it's a place where you can chat about it. We're a lot of nerds here, but nerds can also like football, there's !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz that is usually pretty quiet but obviously people subscribed to it.
And if you're a swiftie make sure to stop by !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
Hiphopheads community hosted on my home instance, and I had no idea it even existed. . Lemmy is never living down the poor community discoverability allegations.
Kudos on trying to keep the TS community alive here. I don't really follow her outside of whatever hits the radio/wider pop culture news, but I remember when I moved to Lemmy your community would hit my front page and I was insanely jealous of everyone kee-keeing together in the comments. Maybe you're right and I should start shitposting about my hobbies on Lemmy, but dang it's hard going from a consumer to an active poster in any social media lol.
Feel free to join !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for regular recommendation threads
It really is, but I've found that a surprisingly large amount of people like what I like. I also mod !satisfactory@lemmy.world and honestly when I post there it's mostly just screenshots. People then ask questions and it's a good time, if news drops or a video drops I'll just paste a link in there, something to get the discussion going. There's also some other great members who do similar. That's really all it takes to get a small community off the ground
I need to redload reddit or some frontend so I can steal interesting links from there to post, one day ill be bored and feel like growing some communities
When you want to, join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
I saw you commented several times on this thread, so just want to take the time here and thank you for all that you do to promote Lemmy communities and fedi in general, Blaze! You're one of the people who's efforts is what keeps me using Lemmy as my primary form of online engagement.
Thank you for your nice comment!
I maintain that we need to be funneling engagement into fewer communities. I mod !cad@lemmy.world but I probably shouldn’t. It should probably be co-located with a 3D printing community, but the name makes anybody doing subtractive or 2D feel excluded.
In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.
The APIpocalypse resulted in a land grab followed immediately by “Wagons East!” back to Reddit by many of the new mods, leaving us with every named neighborhood we might want, yet feeling Balkanized because you feel like you should respect the communities’ boundaries, but there isn’t anyone there in the “perfect” one and likely won’t be for some time.
Have you tried reaching out to the mods of !3dprinting@lemmy.world ?
Also, I just created a thread to promote manual hobbies communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca , feel free to add yours!
and unfortunately no good way to say "This community is closed, we are all over at othercommunity!"
Yeah, and it’s certainly not anything wrong that the users and mods did in creating the communities that did gain traction. Just one of the unique challenges of setting up shop here.
Dedicated comms should be popping off of more general ones like so many Mogwai spores, but things happened differently and it is what it is.
Well, there is: https://lemmy.world/post/24312613
I’ve seen a lot of communities shift instances and change names. At least that seems to work here, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about disrespecting the unmoderated ones.
Obviously the active ones I would stick with
Yeah, it’s just an administrative and “marketing” question. You would never want to harm a community that’s doing well. One just sort of wishes that the reddit refugees (myself included) had been a bit more thoughtful in how the Fediverse world work most efficiently at the size it is.
I like the analogy that it’s a small and slightly isolated town, but one where people are pretty friendly. There’s plenty of people to talk to, but the only issue is, say, if you wanna talk sports you may need to find the couple of folks at the coffee shop who actually like sports and hang out with them whether they’re talking about your favorite team or not. There’s the Linux factory in town, though, and most of us have at least a passing interest in the goings-on there. 🤣
Is there a “pop culture” comm somewhere? Something more specific than like, “usa” and more general than e.g. hiphopheads?
I have a pop music one at !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech but don't know of a more generic one