• anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    I was so happy with the community at !superbowl@lemmy.world this week!

    We got posts from 5 other people this week, which I think is a record, and they were really good, and some were non-US as well.

    I’ve passed 5000 comments, the majority of which have been within the community, and I’m over 900 posts. I’ve been able to maintain 3 posts a day for a while now.

    Been seeing a number of new commenters as well and got another DM thank you from someone for posting happy stuff for them every day.

    I’ve been depressed and now sick recently, so the community has been a very positive element in my life, so I’m glad everyone is still enjoying what I do.

    Reading other communities, I feel people have been getting a little touchier and crude in some of their language, so I feel it is important to keep positive spaces here.

    • cabbage@piefed.social
      6·
      3 months ago

      The owls in my feed never fail to lighten up my day!

      I hope you’re doing better, and I’m happy to hear that the community is bringing something positive to you as well! There’s at least no doubt there’s a lot of us who appreciate the effort. :)

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Yes, my actual medical depression is still properly treated, it’s just a combo of job dissatisfaction and my girlfriend has started work after finishing college, and she works 3x 12 hr days Sat-Mon so my schedule is out of whack and I’ve trashed my already poor sleep hygiene trying to find a new routine. Doing my daily posts is the only thing occuring at “the proper time” anymore, so it at least syncs me up at the start of each day, and the happy comments throughout the day give me things to look forward to.

        I caught the killer head cold she’s been having for the last week as well, and it seems my body decided to speedrun it and I hardly left the bed over the weekend.

        Everyone is always so supportive in the community, I’m always so glad I decided that if nobody else was going to make it active that it was up to me. I spend a lot of time on it, but I feel it is productive and the positive feedback I get makes the work feel more useful than any actual job I’ve had.

        • cabbage@piefed.social
          4·
          3 months ago

          Oooff, that’s harsh. My girlfriend is currently in the process of finishing up her PhD, and my job recently exploded in my face, so I can relate a little to parts of what you’re going through. At least good to hear you’re dealing with the cold efficiently, even if it’s hell while it’s going on!

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            My substitute partner at work today was more sympathetic than my normal coworker, so that made a big difference. I’m feeling pretty good compared to the weekend, but my throat is screwed up and my decongestant seems to have worm off after 8 hours as opposed to the 12 hours of relief promised to me by the box. 🤧

  • frightful_hobgoblinEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Pretty happy with !noyank@lemmy.ml it is on its way to 300 people and has several active subscribers. If a discussion-type thread is started (rather than a recommendation thread) it does get discussion going.

    • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’d like to see a sports specific instance (just something like lemmy.sport) so we could have all the sport communities on one instance, rather than all over the place, and also avoid the weird politics and who’s (not) federated with who issues.

      e.g. !football@lemmy.sport

      !formula1@lemmy.sport

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        That has been exactly my reasoning when I created the topic specific instances, and I have been trying to convince @blaze@feddit.org to get out of LW and into !talk@soccer.forum

        Regarding a “general” sports instance, I have setup https://athletic.center/ some long ago, but never got to create communities for it. I was thinking of using it for less sports that are less “professional” and more suitable for hobby practitioners (e.g, sailing, skiing, diving, swimming, CrossFit, etc) the main reason, to be totally honest, is that sport.* are quite expensive.

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          For people curious, we had a long discussion last week: https://feddit.org/post/2471872/1817865

          In summary

          • I’m still not convinced on rglullis’ business model, relying on 30$ yearly subscription to keep running the instances (I’m afraid that after a while, he’ll get tired of trying and then will have to shut down all the instances due to costs)
          • I’m not a moderator of !football@lemmy.world , so it’s not even my community
          • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I’m still not convinced on rglullis’ business model

            They need $300000 - $450000 a year to live in minimal comfort? Sounds real modest :)

          • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            • Running the topic based instances are not the main costs. Even if I went to shut down Communick (I won’t, because believe it or not it’s getting close to break even) the last thing I would let go are the domains, which can/could be easily transferred to some organization.

            • I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

            • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
              21·
              3 months ago

              I can make you moderator of the communities, so it would be one more reason to move there?

              I already mod too many communities, there was a call last week that I declined.

              At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that’s not only me posting.

              Once we’ll get there, we can discuss where to bring the community.

              • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                At the moment the priority is to grow the community enough that’s not only me posting.

                I’d be posting as well, and if you see the NFL communities, they are also getting some momentum from Mastodon users.

  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz has been growing steadily whether I post or not. Its now a decent size and I haven’t checked but I think more relevant on Lemmy than don’t dead open inside which would be the closest comparison.

    Also a community that came through organically on Lemmy and not an import from the other site!

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    I’m not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.

    Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I’ll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don’t know.

    I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of ‘BD’ and the little tidbits I write up, there’s not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN’s, and who also want to spend time posting.

    This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they’ve been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Aside from personally posting more regularly there, any advice or ideas for getting !likethismaylike@lemm.ee going? Had a few people early on posting and even some people beside myself replying to them, but it rapidly trailed off from there and felt a little too much like I was only using it for myself.

    Started to make other types of post to help show it’s as much for sharing as asking, but while the posts had some passive positive attention, it didn’t net much more activity.