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What some Lemmy communities that are dead or very low number of new posts that you would like to get more active? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by small44@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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My pick is /c/albumartporn

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's absolute mass quantities, as Beldar the Conehead might say.

It's easy enough to guess that plenty of people just grabbed a community name in case they might find it useful one day, but I'm guessing plenty of others legitimately started up a community, put some effort in to it, then ultimately got discouraged and abandoned it. A big part of that likely due to not being able to attract many subscribers and contributors.

Personally what I've found is that if you really want a community to grow, you need to seed it with content on a regular basis; preferably daily. Posting bots are probably a good way to help with that, altho if the sub looks like it's little more than bot posts, I don't think users will be inclined to post or comment much.

What I haven't quite figured out myself is how to incline users to post on their own, but hopefully with time that issue will kind of resolve itself due to sheer user count.

Btw, see here:
https://lemm.ee/c/fedigrow

[–] small44@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm one of those guys who abandonned the communities i created. In one of them i posted 1 or 2 posts every day for 4 months after i realized that i was the sole poster i decided to stop

[–] livus@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm usually the only poster in the one I created, but I'm happy knowing a few people read it.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, it looks like you're mod of ~three fairly dormant communities that have very small user bases. Unfortunately, at that size I wouldn't think there'd be much in the way of regular comments, much less guest posts.

In my case I was lucky, because a co-mod and regular poster happened to join in early-on, and we were able to build up the first couple hundred users fairly quickly.

But something else that I think helped a lot was that our community is very visual-oriented, so it was pretty easy to find users who were perfectly happy to join up just to look at pretty images without necessarily clicking links or putting too much thought in to anything deeper. So pandering to the lowest common denominator of user interest seems to work nicely for building up base numbers. That said, there's still a lot of growth we need to do, which likely involves outreach of some kind or another.

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I mod 4, but only the smallest one (worldwithoutus) is actually mine.

It has about 240 people now, so according to the 90:9:1 rule (out of every 100 people 1 posts and 9 interact) there should be 2 people posting but in reality it's not at that point yet! However, I like doing it.

The other 3 are bigger but not any more active.

very small user bases

If you're talking about the stats, you're probably only able to see how many accounts from your own instance are subscribers.

Kbin is kind of weird because the software is way less developed than Lemmy and it has regular outages, so a lot of people signed up and then left, a lot of communities got abandoned due to inactive mods and spam problems. So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh shoot, I meant the above for @small44@lemmy.world actually, i.e. OP. I don't believe you had replied to me at any point, hence that wasn't meant for you.

That said-- I'm not too sure the "90:9:1" rule applies so well to the FV. For one thing, it seems like a good number of subscribers tried out Lemmy (etc) at some point and then went back to Reddit (etc), meaning they're no longer really here. Another point is that since the FV moves a lot more slowly than Reddit, I question whether FV users are as active here compared to other places.

About the bias of me seeing only part of Small44's community numbers due to filtering by my own instance-- you're right of course, but after double-checking their overall global numbers, they're actually only a tiny bit larger. Ironically or not, most of their users came from my own instance (lemm.ee). So their numbers across three communities are really too small to ever be properly viable IME.

So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.

Geez, that's... not good. :S

https://lemm.ee/u/small44@lemmy.world

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ah, that makes more sense if it was meant for small44. The only reason I thought your numbers were out was because I thought you were talking to me about my communities.

Geez, that’s… not good

It's not ideal, and kbin did fork. In my opinion it was not the dev's fault, it wasn't even really a beta when he suddenly got swamped with reddit refugees. But I believe in his vision.

[–] livus@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There's a really cool one I used to love called The 13th Floor that used to be active and then one week the mod and his friends disappeared.

After the mod was gone for a month I took over moderation to protect it from spam or deletion, but I have other projects so can't really do it justice. I would love it if it got a new lease on life.

Link for Lemmy.

Link for kbin.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I will help get that one back up and going again. Can you describe the purpose of it a little better so I can do this? I'm pretty good at keeping communities alive.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

P.S you have to scroll back 6 months fo start seeing all the posts that aren't me.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey, neat! Thank you! It's an "imagination engine" - the original mod @Arotrios kbin.social wrote a detailed description here.

I never really fully got my head around it but it seems to be a combination of art, poetry, music, cinema, mythology, etc and a lot of the posts in it bounce off other posts in it.

I don't think Lemmy uses hashtags but it still gives you an idea:
#13thfloor #cinemainsomnia #oddradio #poetry #magic #imagination #storytelling #music #history #mythology #archaelogy #art #fiction #writing #environment #physics #magick #cinema #books #literature

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can 10/10 do that.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

That's exciting!

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Regional Lemmies. Not holding my breath.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

It's really location depend. For Europeans, the sidebar of !yurop@lemm.ee lists the national communities, the bigger countries are usually the most active

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

AAP sounds interesting, so here's a link for others who want to see it (yours wasn't clickable for me) - !albumartporn@lemmy.world

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

While we have tons of DND meme channels and some dedicated to tabletop RPGs in general, I would really love to see lemmy.world/c/dm_academy flourish. I got invaluable tips and feedback to the campaign I'm GM'ing.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Communities for underground music and the one for roller skating.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

c/goblincore would be nice to revive. I was doing some posting but I am not a goblin and not that good at picking content.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 6 months ago

!movies@lemm.ee

There is some activity, we even had an AMA with a director/actor, but the discussion threads dedicated to movies struggle to get comments (the one notable exception being Dune Part II)

[–] lookluc@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing and I’m glad you like the community! It’s sad for me too that people don’t post/comment much. I posted a lot in the beginning but now I’m letting people post more as I see it having quality over quantity. I would make more interactive posts if I had the time, but anyone is free to do it :) For example, there was someone posting they favourites hip-hop albums of the month

[–] small44@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's me who was posting the collage of my favorite hip hop album artworks but the list was only about the covers, i included albums that i don't like. Now, i prefer to post each album cover separately in hope that it improve the community visibility

[–] lookluc@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh it was you! Sorry I was on the train and didn’t had time to check your username. Thank you for your posts! :)

[–] small44@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

No problem. I myself don't remember a single username, i rarely even check them

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

HobbyDrama

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

All of them.

I browse All and see the same shit I saw earlier far too soon.

[–] Capitao_Duarte@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 6 months ago

There was a Berserk community, but searching for it now I couldn't find it. I really liked some topics on the Berserk subreddit. Here I feel like Guts get no love. Just like in the manga

[–] airportline@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm heavily interested in Bluesky, so I started !bluesky@lemmy.ml. However, Lemmy is overall pretty hostile towards Bluesky, and I'm not willing to go back to Reddit for active discussion about it.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://lemmynsfw.com/c/sounding

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 3 points 6 months ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !sounding@lemmynsfw.com