• threelonmusketeersMEnglish
    0•15 days ago

    The various spaceflight communities I’ve been growing ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) are chugging along nicely, aided by some posts by @[email protected] and @[email protected].

    I’ve been able to be a bit more hands-off with [email protected] and [email protected], thanks to @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected]. I’ve started crossposting some posts to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] to build them up a bit.

    Attempted consolidation of corvid communities to [email protected] went… poorly, but hey, you win some, you lose some.

    [email protected] had a few posts in the past week, which was nice.

    I’m still feeding [email protected] with Reddit content, but a couple weeks ago someone other than me posted one!

    Memes on [email protected] seem to be getting quite a bit of traction, though the inactivity of the single admin on that instance is a bit worrying in the long-term… might be soon time to consider relocating.

  • SternEnglish
    0•16 days ago

    [email protected] I made it to post random stuff I couldn’t elsewhere. On rare occasions others post. Satisfied with that tbh since its not like I have a karma score or whatev

  • SmokeyDopeEnglish
    0•16 days ago

    [email protected] is off to a great start with over 60 sub’s, I hope someone else whos into detecting on Lemmy will eventually post occasionally too. For now its just me digging holes in my back yard a few times a week.

    I recently took over [email protected] the mods were inactive for years and the pinned post were outdated which started to bug me after months.

    I didn’t like the description was just “were a replacement for the reddit r/localllama community” with same thumbnail and everything. Fuck reddit, our communities aren’t cheap copycats nor should we treat them that way. So I rewrote the description and helped make some new community artwork. People seem to like the new changes which I’m happy about I spent hours editing and colorizing that stupid purple llama picture.

    I also recently became mod of [email protected] and gave it a similar glowup with new art rewritten description and unpinned years old inactive post.

    I’m not super big into number tracking except for metaldetecting since thats truly my baby. I hope the communities I look after continue to grow at the speed they were meant to.

  • Elevator7009English
    0•15 days ago

    Pleased that [email protected] has attracted posters who aren’t me in its first few days of existence! Thanks to it I played some automation games again. Mindustry may not be for me… I’ll give it an honest shot but I just hit the tower defense tutorial and am feeling a bit leery. I’m not a “violence in video games is bad” type so not sure why I am getting like this.

    Waiting for the day the Fediverse gets more users. I mod 3 communities now and I am letting it go because small platform, someone has to provide content, and although I am fully capable of posting without being a mod the things I’d like to post about don’t always have preexisting communities (or have a dead one, so precedent to recreate—the “hey that’s too specific, just post in a big general community” hurdle tends to be presented less often when the community already existed on the Fediverse). But in a normal situation this feels too powermoddy.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•15 days ago

    Sigh… Kinda bad. I don’t search for latex porn and photos like I used to, real life and all gets in the way. [email protected]

    Lemmy doesn’t feel as centered around that stuff, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

  • Lady Butterfly English
    0•15 days ago

    [email protected] has been going great, it’s a really great group of people and interaction is good. I’ve been blown away by how supportive so many lemmy men have been about it!

    [email protected] has a new mod, she’s keen to develop it so I’m excited to see where it goes from here

  • Elevator7009English
    0•11 days ago

    Wondering if an option to opt a community out of downvotes outside subscribers would be a good idea.

    I remember being on Mbin and seeing some poor baseball community I was browsing with things that looked to be factual and from credible sources having about 3 upvotes and downvotes to most posts, making it look like the content was fake or low-quality. I’m wondering how many of those votes were actual subscribed people (or people interested in lurking), and how many were just trolls downvoting anything they could—which happened to congregate in on a tiny community with not too many supporters to shout out the troll voices (like when a post has 50 upvotes and 1 downvote and zero negativity in the comments—you can probably guess the downvote is not for “off topic” or “low quality” or “spam” or “cruel,” just a troll being a troll).

    I do think the outside world’s input is still valuable, but I do want to be able to protect small communities from having this happen to them, where every post looks like a shit contribution if you just check the votes even if the posts are good, because random people who downvote a topic because they just don’t like that topic instead of blocking it from their feed or scrolling past, or actual trolls, got to it and there are not enough subscribers to drown the noise out.

    Posting because I think some small communities I’m in have total outsiders downvoting posts to the point it outweighs subscriber upvotes: they are usually totally inoffensive, have no misinformation, and are on-topic for the community and on par with the usual effort it takes to make posts in that community, and yet almost even in upvotes/downvotes.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•10 days ago

      Downvotes bummed me out, not gonna lie. F.e. I was posting totally fine desire paths to the desire paths community, before it “blew up” because of some blahaj post, (now stuff gets quite a lot of upvotes there) but I always had people downvoting it.

      I don’t know, just a bummer to have zero interaction but downvotes coming in (although upvotes still outnumbered down votes then too). Pretty clear that it was from people not interested in desire paths, still, if you post into the void it sucks the fun out of it kinda, makes you wonder what you’re even doing.

      But less worse than some of the negativity snipers, who actually take time of their day to tell you that your post was not up to their standards but you never see them contribute anything positive to the niche.