Indeed, I use it from time to time, but from my experience, it seems like LW users tend to stay on their local feed, increasing the visibility of their local communities compared to ones from other instance
I cheated the system and just politely usurped an existing comm with a few hundred subscribers thanks to prior Reddit fame! 😇
On a more serious note, I was telling someone today that I mainly try to give them content they won't be able to get anywhere else, including on r/superbowl. I filter through the hell of Facebook to pick out things they don't want to sort through, or I do summaries of research papers they don't have time to read. I search for sources of content with small audiences.
I also try to engage with everyone that replies to me. I value all my commenters, and them chiming in grows the group as much as me posting, so I want them to feel like kings and queens for participating so they come back. They can go anywhere for content, but they gave me a chance, so I want them to come back to me first next time.
Owl of the Year was also a big 2 or 3 week event that really picked up steam quickly, and will hopefully draw people back again this year. Not sure how replicable that is for most of you, but I'm glad I tried it.
I just added my own community building approach in this thread, but you've both articulated some stuff I hadn't mentioned as well as given me ideas, thanks.
Lol, it feels strange being invited here as someone not a mod or instance admin, and my original intent was to just lurk silently.
I do feel protective of this space now though, since participating so much more than I ever thought I would, and there are a few names in this thread I recognize for their contributions across Lemmy and I'm very thankful of the work you all have put in as well.
I'll make an effort to follow this community and share any helpful thoughts I have. I think we really have something good here, and I want to see it grow happily.
Lol, it feels strange being invited here as someone not a mod or instance admin, and my original intent was to just lurk silently.
That's the whole idea, all the people here are regular posters. They might be mods or admins too, but that doesn't really matter. We are here to talk about how it feels to post regularly, and it's something that only a few people really experience.
Part of the problem may be lack of tagging and filtering tools.
For example:
I'm not interested in memes so if a community is largely filled with them, my only way to avoid them may be to block the community. This includes communities that I might otherwise subscribe to, or want to engage with.
This is also tied into community fragmentation, community discoverability, and feeling the need to browse All to see anything. I don't know how widespread my issue is, but I have seen others mentioning having extensive block lists of communities.
On Facebook, before I stopped, I tried writing well sourced political pieces and no amount of engagement was enough - when there was none it was... Annoying maybe, or disheartening. It made me think about why I was doing it.
I stopped posting on Facebook and I'm slowly moving to my own site and the fediverse.
So I'd say reflect on why you're doing it and hopefully align your actions or expectations with that introspection.
I haven't yet; moving from a Jekyll based blog to a different stack at the moment. Been doing a lot of digital migrations like to proton and such this past month.
I'll post it when there's enough on there to be proud of or worth showing. Thanks for the curiosity.
What's important is we never stop trying to connect, we keep pushing for meaningful dialogues and educating ourselves and our neighbors.
You say that, but I recently had a comment deleted and got banned from a community on that instance. I wasn't being a jerk or anything. The mod was power tripping.
I do this for a few sublemmys like !nasa and !esa. I view it as keeping communities on "life support" until Lemmy grows a bit more.
One of the best practices I can think of is to cross-post a post with text in the body (important) from a small sublemmy to a large sublemmy. This creates a link to the original post on the smaller community, and gives it some visibility.
Do you think it would make more sense to have just one umbrella "space" community, on maybe mander.xyz (which already has !astronomy ), or even !space ?
Hmm, not sure I fully understand. Are you suggesting that each instance should limit the number of communities to a few general ones, or that the Lemmy network as a whole should limit the number of duplicate general communities?
That's more or less the idea. Fragmentation doesn't really benefit us except when the topic is that popular that conversations can happen in parallel (technology or news for instance)
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