Active communities promotion thread

Hello,

As everybody knows, content discovery on Lemmy can sometimes be a bit tricky.

To help smaller communities to get more activity, I launch this thread for people to promote the communities they are active one.

One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

This could be a weekly thread, but let's see how it goes

Finally, !newcommunities and !communitypromo are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

!learningrustandlemmy

It’s for learning rust (the programming language) and the lemmy code base itself as a sort of “reading club”. If you’re the type of person who might be interested there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it already. We’re currently working through The Book (conventional learning resource) through a couple of Twitch streams and regular posts/discussions.

More collaborative learning activity is plenty welcome!

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

You've been doing great with that community, I hope more people get in there.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Cheers! Huuuge amount of credit goes to sorrybookbroke and jayjader running their twitch streams every week!

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

Maybe make it a monthly thing on the first or last day of the month?

ericjmorey ,
@ericjmorey@discuss.online avatar

I'm a bit biased but I like !eric_posts_urls

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@lemmy.world avatar

Some casual history promotion

!RoughRomanMemes

!HistoryMemes

!HistoryArtifacts

!HistoryDrawings

!HistoryRuins

!historyporn

Blaze OP , (edited )
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Hello,

Thank you for sharing.

I clicked on the two first ones, and the last posts seem to be from 28 days ago (the OP suggested to only post communities with at least a post in the last 7 days), and the kbin.social link sends to an error page.

Are you planning to move those communities to another instance?

Edit: federation issue on my side

Edit2: It might indeed be an issue, see other comments

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@lemmy.world avatar

Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.

https://ibb .co/GsV1znm

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Indeed, thanks! I guess it is just a federation issue on my side. When that's the case, I would usually try to see the community on its host instance, but couldn't here.

Thank you for keeping all of those alive !

sunaurus ,
@sunaurus@lemm.ee avatar

I think it's not really on your side, most likely either just something wrong on kbin.social itself, OR a side-effect of the measures lemmy.world implemented against kbin.social recently.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Indeed, thanks!

e0qdk ,
@e0qdk@reddthat.com avatar

kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don't think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

HistoryMemes@kbin.social

Very good point. I just had a look at https://lemm.ee/c/HistoryMemes@kbin.social, and despite having 34 local subscribers (visible in the sidebar), the newest post are from 2 months ago.

@PugJesus, you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

MrKaplan ,
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world avatar

@PugJesus, you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

this is unfortunately correct for the time being.

while we still have aggressive rate limits in place to limit federation impact from kbin bugs, which started with the measures that @sunaurus mentioned, this wouldn't impact activities coming from lemmy.world towards kbin.social.

while kbin.social used to break down every now and then based on what i saw people comment, service was typically restored within a short period of time. more recently however, any time i've looked at kbin.social in the past couple weeks, it's only been showing an error page. i suspect it may have been unavailable the entire time, not just at the times i looked at it. looking at our federation stats, the last successfully sent activity from lemmy.world to kbin.social was dated 2024-06-18 00:12:25 UTC, although the actual send date may have been later. successful is also not necessarily guaranteed, as some error codes might be misinterpreted as success due to how servers can be set up and how response status codes are interpreted on the sending side.

if activities sent from lemmy.world don't reach kbin.social then the posts and comments won't be relayed to other instances. this is generally an issue in activitypub when instances are down, as such "orphaned" (at the time) communities effectively become local-only communities, isolated islands on all instances that already know about them.

at this point, the last time we've received an activity submission (federation traffic) from kbin.social as on 18th of June, so it seems like it was working for some time on that day and has been broken since.

at the start of this month, @ernest (kbin.social owner, main kbin dev) said that he was going to hand over management of kbin.social to someone else, as he's currently unable to take care of it. presumably this hasn't happened yet.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Thank you for jumping in and providing this context!

Rolando ,

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I'm seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

sunaurus ,
@sunaurus@lemm.ee avatar

They are basically local-only communities on lemmy.world at this point, unfortunately. There is no federation to any other instance for any lemmy.world user posts on those communities.

Rolando ,

@PugJesus it's time to "cross the Rubicon" to full federation!

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@lemmy.world avatar

I'm gonna give Kbin a little while longer to get its shit together, but if need be, I'll swap to Lemmy.world in the near future.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

They have been out for 12 days, hope is quite low

https://lemmy.world/post/16654789

PugJesus ,
@PugJesus@lemmy.world avatar

Ernest said he was handing over the reigns to someone else soon. I'd like to give them a chance before I bail on Kbin. I really like Kbin.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

You do you!

hitstun ,
@hitstun@fedia.io avatar

Come to Mbin! We have active developers!

Fitik ,

@Blaze
On my instance there is 3 active communities, I am not admin in any of them but i think they're pretty cool

!Firefox - Community dedicated to the firefox browser
!FirefoxCSS - Community dedicated to the customization of Firefox
!FloatingIsFun - Got very cool CSS and looks pretty and customized, dedicated to art and pics of floating things

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Thank you for your comment. I really like the !floatingisfun one, it looks even better with the custom CSS!

hitstun , (edited )
@hitstun@fedia.io avatar

Cool! Thanks for the Floating Is Fun shout out! I wish that CSS would federate to other instances, even if it's just a header image like Lemmy communities get. You Lemmy users can still use interfaces like Photon and Voyager, and it looks great on those.

As for me, I like these ones:
!wordle - I comment my puzzle results in there everyday
!news - Good reliable world news that covers important events
!usnews - I'm American and this is better than most of our news outlets
!comicstrips - Good single-serving comics in my feed
!vgmusic - Sometimes I throw video game music at them
@MentalEdge - Not a community, but I end up following MentalEdge to a lot of the communities they frequent

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

If you understand Danish, any of the communities on Feddit.dk should be interesting... But otherwise they probably aren't :P

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Makes sense! How many people are usually active on your communities, per week for instance?

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

The most active is probably the news community, !nyheder with 80 active users per week according to the sidebar. I think a good portion of them are users on external instances.

TehBamski ,
@TehBamski@lemmy.world avatar

!musicmashups - Post your favorite and best music mashups.

!standupcomedy - This community is a place for stand-up comedy videos, shorts, gifs (with audio,) news, and discussion.

!shirtsthatgohard - Basically for shirts that you think go hard. That can mean many things but it comes down to what you think stands out.

Tywele ,
@Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Some shameless self plugs 😛:

Ashtear ,
@Ashtear@lemm.ee avatar

Subscribed to Imaginary Witches, thanks!

Tywele ,
@Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Welcome! 🤗

notnotmike ,
Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Thanks for sharing!

The last one is cute, but last post seems to be from 23 days ago

AchtungDrempels ,

Why birds and not !birding ?

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Probably an opportunity for consolidation

AchtungDrempels ,

Yeah i don't really see the difference in topic, also on the same instance.

meldrik ,

For those situations where all you can say is wtf?!:

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Didn't know about this one, thanks!

mke ,

Were the community rules copied straight out of Reddit or something? 3 and 9 are a bit funny.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

9 has been updated (the original one is "no link to Reddit"), but 3 is indeed funny

meldrik ,

Pretty sure it was copied from the subreddit, back when the community was created 😅

Engineer ,

!right2repair you think companies preventing you from repairing your stuff is BS?

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

There is !fixing, maybe you can promote your community there?

Rolando ,

!cyberpunk - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

!wavemusic - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

!gothindustrial - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I'll post something later today.

!fullmoviesonyoutube - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

!fedigrow - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @Blaze has been posting a weekly thread on "how is your [niche] community doing?" which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, !shortstories - links to short stories online in all genres

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Interesting list, thanks!

AA5B ,

For fans of outdoor cooking, especially with this versatile pellet grill ….
!traeger(https://lemmy.world/c/traeger)

I just got one of these grills and am learning about smoking - let’s help each other out, appreciate each others efforts, and cook some feasts

plactagonic ,

Shamelessly promoting my community again: !homebrewing

It averages about 1 post per week but it certainly isn't dead.

Blaze OP ,
@Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

Stumbled upon it randomly the other day, it's pretty cool!

plactagonic ,

I am glad that you like it. It would be nice to have little more traffic but post quality is more important so I can't complain.

JohnDClay ,

Stick enthusiasts
!stick

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