The NFL season is about to start and it would be nice to have as many people as possible participating on the communities from https://nfl.community. Being a topic-specific instance with closed registrations, I’m aware that it is harder to be discovered, so I’m writing here with the intent of both promoting a bit and to find enthusiasts joining in.
If you’d like to help the instance and the team communities grow, there are two ways to help:
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Join https://fediverser.network, find the Lemmy community you want to help and apply to become a Community Ambassador. Community Ambassadors can add different sources of content and also send invites to “good” reddit users to migrate.
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Become a moderator of your team community. The communities are still all low in traffic, so I guess the hardest part for the moderators will be in finding and posting the type of content that you’d like to see in the community, in order to set out its tone.
As always, if you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask!
Good luck with this!
I have no appreciable interest in 'murican “hand-egg”, but am always happy to see fediverse growth! Good luck!
Not to worry, there are plenty of other segments that I could use some help:
fediverser.network seems to be another tool to promote big instances, or at least those that “claim” it first. Most popular subreddits are locked to single community recommendation and doesn’t allow recommending any others.
Are the recommendations bad? In most cases, the ongoing criteria are:
- topic-specific instances over “generic” ones.
- Activity.
- No constant issues of downtime / poor moderation.
You are right though about the “locking” mechanism. I’m also not too happy about it. Maybe I remove the “locked” attribute and just hide the forms in case the recommended instances and communities are healthy.
In the meantime, please post on https://communick.news/c/fediverser_network in case you have any community recommendation that you think should be revised.
Are the recommendations bad?
The issue is that it recommends a single community when there are many on popular or generic topics. Having a single option as an alternative just showcases the issue of dominant instances breaking the Fediverse.
topic-specific instances over “generic” ones.
Community on the same topic can have widely different rules. From content they allow to simple things like preferred post structure. Why not have all of them that match the criteria?
Activity.
What amount of activity is considered enough?
No constant issues of downtime / poor moderation.
“poor moderation” can mean many things and will differ based on the person who has the power to decide it. Basic things like spam, illegal content and alike everyone can agree on, but more specific etiquette based rules are in the eye of the beholder, no?
In the meantime, please post on https://communick.news/c/fediverser_network in case you have any community recommendation that you think should be revised.
I’m not for removing any recommendation, I’m for adding more of them.
Don’t forget, the main goal of Fediverser is not to create a comprehensive map, but to help people who are migrating from Reddit and are not familiar with how the Fediverse works to get started. For them, it’s better to have one entry point for most of their topics, then to give them a bunch of different communities with the same name but slightly different mechanics.
What amount of activity is considered enough?
Ideally, something proportional to the corresponding subreddit and with more than one single person dominating the posting.
Basic things like spam, illegal content and alike everyone can agree on.
That seems enough for now. But there were also cases of communities that were on smaller instances with poor uptime or seem abandoned. I removed them.
I’m not for removing any recommendation, I’m for adding more of them.
While I agree that (in theory) more choice for the user is better, I’m not sure that this is necessarily the best in practice.
Already, two main roadblocks to fediverse growth are “it is confusing” and “there is insufficient activity in any given community”. Presenting new users with too many options exacerbates both of these issues.
What amount of activity is considered enough?
To attract Reddit users, the bar is higher than one might think. I’d say at least 10% of the activity of the corresponding subreddit at the bare minimum, preferably closer to 30%.
Community on the same topic can have widely different rules.
Would you be able to provide some examples? I’ve heard this before, but no examples come to mind. If anything, I’ve found the reverse to be much more common: A bunch of communities on the same topic splintered across different instances, none of which have enough activity on their own to maintain an active community.
