Hello everyone,
Basically the title.
In my case, I’m trying to address the regularly brought up issue about Lemmy/Kbin only being about memes, tech and news.
Hence, I’m trying to post regularly on
As we all know, growing a community is hard, but I hope that over time they will become more populated.
!climate@slrpnk.net is a nice source of climate change related news and discussions.
I got started with !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, just 3 posts so far. I’d like to see askhistorians & askscience communities gaining more traction.
Mostly jlai.lu communities for French content, as well as ! olympics@sh.itjust.works
I also try to get into the habit of sharing my reads on the more appropriate community, and by default !humanities@beehaw.org
I like the Beehaw spirit, and I think we should aspire to get their level of moderation.
I am always a bit skeptical about posting content on one of their communities as they are defederated from LW and SJW, preventing most of the users (especially new joiners) to access it. What do you think?
LW + SJW accounts for about 24k of a total 60k MAU … so a little under half the lemmy-verse, on top of which there’s also kbin.
Something to think about though is the difference between user count and actual engagement.
A lot of the Twitter to mastodon migrants talked about this, finding that you could get more meaningful engagement on mastodon compared to pretty superficial vacuous stuff on twitter.
I stand corrected, but 40% of a platform is still a lot.
About the Twitter/Mastodon comparaison, I hope LW and SJW have not reached Twitter’s level of toxicity yet
I don’t really mind, I think it’s nice to give people a reason to join smaller instances anyway, ie. telling them they’ll get the quality content and good vibes of Beehaw if they avoid these two monster instances. But for targeting a large audience, yeah that doesn’t work!
I’m hoping !artbykids@lemmy.world picks up. It’s a community to post art created by kids. I know a lot of parents are proud of their kids’ artwork but don’t want to share it because they don’t know if everybody else would find it great/cute/adorable/etc. This is a positive community where any artwork by kids is welcome with positive vibes. I hope it gets more people proudly showing off their kids’ artwork, because I think kids artwork is more than just a piece of art, it’s a window into a kid’s mind.
Hey, thanks for sharing this! I’m gonna subscribe to it even though I don’t plan on posting anything there, cause it seems like a really neat sub to sorta see things in a different way, like you said (and as a nice positive sub).
Thank you! Even if you don’t plan on posting there, consider commenting positive things to the submissions as that is a major way to encourage people to participate freely.
It’s pretty much a lost cause, at least for now, but I keep posting anyway. And it’s not like it’s an imposition - I check in on Mangadex a few times a day anyway, to catch up on my follows and maybe browse the new updates, so I just post discussion threads for the stuff I like and would like to discuss.
Years ago, I used to post a lot on the Reddit manga sub. It was always much more active, but my tastes in manga are obscure enough that most of what I was following didn’t get posted otherwise. But then the sub grew to the point that there were more enthusiastic posters even posting that, so I stopped.
That’s made it sort of awkward on kbin though, since I’m still just posting the sort of obscure stuff I like. In order to grow the community, it would be better to post more popular series, but that just seems sort of dishonest to me. It seems to me that if I’m not even reading a series myself, I have no business posting it.
So it goes…
