As I've said since the beginning, I'd like to see more diversification of opinion in the userbase.
There are a LOT of people here that are the kind of activist you'd see get banned on Reddit for being hyper-aggressive and it really turns neutral- or otherwise-thinking users off. They don't discuss, they immediately attack and flame and it's not good for building communities around except hyper-focused ones based on those issues specifically.
I want people who know the reason they think something and don't just have an emotional response and stick with it, then strawman everyone else in the vicinity who deviates.
As we say in the main Rules for our Community ( !actual_discussion ), "Not everything is a genocide, and not everyone even slightly to the right of you is a Nazi."
I also want MUCH better Community controls such as the ability to decorate, and disable downvotes.
I feel having a balance between more popular and widely used communitys as well as smaller and nicher ones work pretty well for me, where I admin 3 rather popular and broad communitys and 3 small and very niche ones. That way it just feels like more is happening yknow?
I also can only recommend utilising a Post Schedueler and making 1-2 weeks worth of posts at a time!
When you manually post daily, it does feel pretty lonely, but if you do all the work in a few hours for 2 weeks like I usually do, it really does feel less like shouting into a void since you aren't actively posting per say that way
I mean, the posts are usually schedueled for the same time with 5 minutes apart. I always look forward to letting them all post and then looking over them all at once!
@otter, I wanted to ask you about something: I posted to !til in the past, but it seems that now the community isn't actively moderated, and on the other side !todayilearned is getting a resurgence.
Do you think it is worth it trying to post to the lemmy.ca one, or should we go with the flow and post on the LW one to make it grow?
We were actually checking into this recently! While the mods look inactive from the post history, there is an active mod keeping an eye on the community.
I'm planning to make more posts to !til, and while I'm not sure which one will be best in the long run, I want to try and see if we can grow this one.
As for the other communities, I'm planning to go through and clean up moderation sometime in the next little while :)
Alright, good to know! I see if I can find stuff to post there, but usually I post to !interestingasfuck as there is some overlap, and the community got some traction a few days ago
I am not sure the community will be visible from your instance, so if you want to have a look at the discussions, you can start here: https://lemm.ee/c/fedigrow
These things take time. I’ve saved discords in the past by making interesting comments or posts that created conversations. Lemmy is growing, and quality content attracts quality content.
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.
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)
I think it is a good idea. We pretty much did just that when consolidating c/SpaceX from !SpaceX and !SpaceX to !SpaceX. I just now noticed the dormant !SpaceX. Should that be consolidated as well?
Another candidate for consolidation? A bit of a tricky case, as the current largest community is not on the most politically centrist/neutral instance, and lemmy.dbzer0 which (in my opinion) would be a more closely aligned instance doesn't have a data hoarders community.
With hating videos I mean low-effort spammy crap. It's a decent format to explain certain technical aspects, but nowadays for every one good video, there's 20 bad ones, and I'd rather not have my feed flooded with crap.
If I want to watch stuff, I'll go to youtube or other platform. Lemmy is just a totally different use case for me, and I'd prefer to keep the two separated.
Just like I can't understand how people are using Lemmy for porn, but I guess from the sheer amount posted, there must be an audience. So I just hope I can fully opt out.
I'm torn on video support, but it's your typical I'm going to use it right, but I don't trust the masses to. 😅
I'd hate to see groups get filled up with posts that are nothing but a link to a video, but with me doing animal behavior and rehab, it can be hard to show some things with stills. Things like raptor hunting techniques and biomechanics need to be seen.
I'm all for having it not auto play or any of that annoying stuff though.
Right, I can see the appeal for some special purposes, but to be honest, external links to videos did just fine so far - and makes it easy for those of us who can't be bothered to simply block youtube.com and youtu.be as external domains, and done.
If videos make up the post itself, I can see my frontpage flooded with stuff I don't care to see.
And just for the record, I don't hate videos per se, I just think it's opening up the platform for very low effort posts. If you're writing an article about a highly technical topic and then link a video to visualize it, great. But if there's just a headline and a video, I might as well not be bothered at all.
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