• PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Good! HistoryMemes is starting to get other regular contributors. HistoryIllustrations and HistoryPorn also have been seeing more contributions from other posters.

    I dream of the day when I can post only rarely and silently upvote other people’s content instead.

  • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    !superbowl@lemmy.world had its worst day ever yesterday as far as downvotes go. I normally get the random 1 or 2, in rare cases it can creep near 10, but we almost got 80 yesterday!

    I went to do my morning posts and saw a regular commenter shared some AI art they had enjoyed, and while nobody said anything, they were really smacking the downvotes. I tried to diffuse the situation a bit, especially since it’s a regular commenter whom I enjoy, and I don’t want the community to drive off one of the few actual participants we have.

    While everyone already had the sticks up their butts, I decided to share the one cartoon post I had in my queue, which we also eventually learned was AI generated, so the same group brigaded me pretty much. Joke’s on them though, because it got appeal to All since it was a comic, so it’s probably my top post for the year.

    Posted some more normal things today and everyone seems to have moved on. I debated if I was going to post anything today after what I considered kinda crappy behavior from the group, but I took the high road. But if bad reactions make me hesitate to post, they certainly aren’t helping anyone on the fence.

    There has been a good smattering of posts from people other than me lately, so I hope it continues, but people need to be more chill.

    • quinacridoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Wow 80 downvotes! Some people really get their knickers in a twist don’t they? It would be interesting to see how many of them spend their free time making quality posts, with beautiful photos, complete with a few Fun Facts for others to enjoy…

      Maybe we need to add a proviso ‘it’s just some fun, chill the fuck out’

      Don’t stop posting tho, I love your love of owls

      (btw, I recently saw a Barn Owl out hunting just before dusk, flying around the moors. We were side by side with him/her flying, and me driving, then we pulled over to watch from a distance. It was amazing, I’ve seen one before as a white ghost appearing, then disappearing just as quickly, as I shit my pants. This time tho I got to see the markings and it’s face quite clearly…great stuff!)

      edit- add

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        If people can’t make a constructive comment, I’m sure they’re not providing enjoyable content anywhere else.

        That sounds like a great experience you got to have! Owls have been amazing us and jump scaring us since the caveman days, and they show no signs of stopping!

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Sorry to hear about this. Maybe try to reach out to the mods to see if they can jump in and open a meta post to discuss AI generated post?

      I saw you mentioning there you not being in charge, but at the same time, you post probably close to 100% of the content, so you should be heard.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I tend to forget we have mods, as we’re typically drama free. I’ve talked to the original one a few times and they’ve always been helpful and have told me to ask for help if I need it.

        They’ve said as long as it’s owl content, it should be good. I’ve expressed my concerns about AI images before, and I have no issue if it’s obvious stuff, which this was.

        The only other time I’ve gotten anger really was when the mod asked me to do an actual Super Bowl owl event. The non sport and non US people were getting ticked and DMing me stuff.

        People are allowed to not like things, but I do posts that don’t interest me. I don’t downvote hobbies or news that doesn’t interest me. Not everything has to be for me and my enjoyment, but other people can’t see that.

        Today went normally, so it’s back to normal.

  • quinacridoneEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Not too bad…I’m mainly the only one posting on collage although the lovely Eugenia Loli has posted there too, there is a printmaker Julien_Catenese who posts their work on printmaking which is awesome, and several people are posting OC to abstract photography which I’m really pleased about!

    I’m also making posts for !invertebrates@mander.xyz and !nudibranchs@mander.xyz, while trying to not burn myself out, or get too frustrated by lemmys photo upload limit (which can be really stressful when I want to make a Mega Post with plenty of pictures) … Essentially, I’m just trying to amuse myself first and foremost, maybe learn something new 😀

    • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I super appreciate your community! Unfortunately I encounter bunnies and can thus make bunny content for !bunnies@lemmy.world far more frequently than I encounter snakes of any type, let alone the royal python. I can try to explicitly look up royal pythons to post so you’re not alone!

      I also think this is happening because right now, we are so small that we do not have enough users to split the snake-lover community by species just yet.

    • LukeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I think that instance has defederated with some other highly active instances (like mine) so unfortunately we can’t really help much there.

      One of the drawbacks of how the fediverse works, I guess, though discouraging centralization is also good.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’m doing alright.

    !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, !spacex@sh.itjust.works, and !spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works are chugging along nicely.

    !nosafetysmokingfirst@sh.itjust.works has grown to over 300 subscribers in just the first month, which I’m pretty pleased with.

    !bertstrips@lemm.ee has surpassed 500 subscribers, but I’m running out of stuff to (re)post.

    When I can, I try to contribute to !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social, !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net, !teslamotors@lemmy.zip, and !avs@futurology.today.

    • blue_berry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      When I can, I try to contribute to !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social

      Thanks! The community is growing slower, but now keeps consistently ofter 1000 MAU.

      I don’t think I will do the migration to floonet.social after all. Instead, I want to wait until the Lemmy devs implement the admin option to disable image upload (which they want to implement in the next months). This way, you could still see images from other instances, but not upload images yourself.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    My communities are all going slow and steady as usual. !cybermoe@ani.social is likely to reach 1k subs soon.

    I’ve been really enjoying !deadlock@sopuli.xyz and helping with an active lemmy community for the game has been fun. Even made an original meme.

    I’m a little cross with the mod of !touhou@lemmy.world as they’ve banned me for “deliberate” rule-breaking. Not marking posts NSFW whenever danbooru arbitrarily rates them as “sensitive”. This despite the rules not requiring this, but rather requesting that posters use the same verbal guidelines. (I complied the first time the mod complained, the second time my post was obviously safe, so as nothing made sense to me at that point, I responded by deleting it along with a promise not to post anymore, this got me banned for “deliberately breaking community rules”)

    As such I’ll be taking !touhou@ani.social under my wing instead, so go sub there if you like Touhou, or the type of content I post in general :D

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Do you post these manually? When I saw the posts from that community in my feed I assumed that it was set up as a bot action.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I’ve seen it, it’s a nice concept, but probably quite niche, and maybe too broad.

      For instance, if there is an anniversary for something specific to football, I might post it to !football@lemmy.world rather then your community 😕

  • hitstun@fedia.io
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’m OK. !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io is coming along fine. We still have the most threads of any magazine on fedia.io, though the more buoyant !hydrogen@fedia.io will surpass us soon. It helps that I’m not the only one posting, and I’m trying to let others have input on the types of content we post.

    Our group of airheads has a lot of crossover with ani.social’s audience, so that took a hit when ani.social got themselves defederated from our instance and others. I’d post to !touhou@ani.social if I could.