Not sure if that counts but I decided to spend some time posting and encouraging people to participate in the very inactive Lemmy Journaling community.
I have not posted much so far (started yesterday, with two posts) and, if you’re wondering, I am not the creator of the community, not even an admin.
It’s just that I have been journaling for many decades myself and I know people could gain a lot by journaling themselves. So, it makes me feel somewhat sad to see no activity going on in our community, with not that many subscribers either, while at the same time there are almost 2 millions subscribers to our reddit cousin r/journaling and, quite obviously, a lot more things going on there ;)
Frankly, I have no idea where this will go or if it will go anywhere at all. I just want to try to do something and so, for the time being, I will do my best to regularly post new content, hopefully encouraging other members to participate as well, and then encouraging new members to join and share whatever questions/doubts/ideas they may have too.
I am not a marketing pro, but feel free to come visit the Journaling community, and, by all means, to post stuff on your own if you’re also a journaler (digital or analog, it should not matter). The more of us, the more various content we start sharing, the more likely we are to welcome new members.
Also, if you know of any other like-minded community feel free to share a link.
Not sure if that counts but I decided to spend some time posting and encouraging people to participate in the very inactive Lemmy Journaling community.
Hey there!
I felt compelled to chime in and add that you may want to consider creating a new community that you’re able to moderate rather than trying to revive an existing one that never made it out of infancy.
@downtide@sh.itjust.works is the sole mod of the community you linked and (from my account/instance anyway) doesn’t appear to have been active for around a year. Maybe that isn’t a problem now but if the community takes off I’m sure you’ll wish you were able to deal with spam posts and trolls.
Have you considered creating a new community? Lemmy also has some weird stuff about how reports are sent that makes it more reliable to moderate communities from the same instance the community is hosted on, so there’s a benefit to keeping it hosted where your Lemmy account is based. You may want to check if you can create communities on your home instance.
No matter what you decide to do you may also find it beneficial to announce you’ve started/revived a community at !newcommunities@lemmy.world since a lot of people seem to watch it. Good luck!
Thx a lot for the insight! I had not thought about any of those points. My only idea was, a bit naively I am afraid, to not create a new community since there was one existing already. But everything you said is very true.
As a downside, creating a new community would imply even less members participating, a lot less, at least to begin with but it may still be preferable if it means being able to shunt any troll.
Here is what I will do: I will ask the question on the existing community, ask members what they think would be best. If I get no answer, well, I’ll fell less… wasteful by creating a new community from scratch. I will also ask the admins on my instance if that would be OK to host it as we’re mostly speaking French, but I think they should be OK to host an English speaking community, at least I can ask.
Whatever I decide to do, I will also ping !newcommunities@lemmy.world.
Thx a lot, again :)
If it makes you feel better about the original community being orphaned you can always leave a post there with a link to wherever the new home is if you make one. That way someone who used to subscribe will eventually find the new home, and new people who stumble in won’t be disappointed the community they were excited for is dead.
Maybe you could even cross post your OC from the new community back to the old one for a bit so people have a chance to find the new one.
There are lots of ways to go about things, the hard part is finding and keeping the motivation!
Those are good ideas, thx.
I don’t know how cross posting works (really not an expert in any way, here), I will have to do some reading :p
There are lots of ways to go about things, the hard part is finding and keeping the motivation!
Indeed, and I must say that it never was my intention to create/moderate a community. I just wanted to revive it by regularly posting stuff in it. But I would also not want to help it get some activities going on without anyone able to keep trolls at large.
I have just posted the question in the Journaling community, will see how it goes… if it goes anywhere ;)
I don’t know how cross posting works (really not an expert in any way, here), I will have to do some reading :p
AFAIK the webui doesn’t have a convenient way of doing thisbut apps have a way of doing it within a couple clicks. I use Boost, I’m sure others offer similar functionality. Edited to add: you actually can cross post on the webui. Click the double-square logo after making the post and you’ll get the UI for posting again, but with the details from the OP filled in already. All you have to do is select the community to crosspost to at the bottom.
Indeed, and I must say that it never was my intention to create/moderate a community. I just wanted to revive it by regularly posting stuff in it. But I would also not want to help it get some activities going on without anyone able to keep trolls at large.
I understand. On reddit I was a lurker, on Lemmy I’ve become far more active in ways I never imagined. If we want the communities we enjoy to pop up and flourish somebody has to get things going. We don’t have the luxury of a massive userbase or a corporate botnet like some other places, but we can make our space something special with a little effort and some communication.
EDIT: added more info and a pic about cross posting
AFAIK the webui doesn’t have a convenient way of doing this but apps have a way of doing it within a couple clicks. I use Boost, I’m sure others offer similar functionality.
I will check those. I am using both Linux and macOS, I never use my phone to write anything. Hopefully there will be such an app with Crossposting on one or the other.
I understand. On reddit I was a lurker, on Lemmy I’ve become far more active in ways I never imagined. If we want the communities we enjoy to pop up and flourish somebody has to get things going.
Something I am slowly realizing too. I commented quite a lot on reddit, like I have started doing on Lemmy, but starting a conversation? Well, I rarely think any of my questions/ideas are worth discussing and I normally don’t bother. But I’m learning ;)
I will check those. I am using both Linux and macOS, I never use my phone to write anything. Hopefully there will be such an app with Crossposting on one or the other.
There actually is a way, I updated my last reply as you were replying.
Something I am slowly realizing too. I commented quite a lot on reddit, like I have started doing on Lemmy, but starting a conversation? Well, I rarely think any of my questions/ideas are worth discussing and I normally don’t bother. But I’m learning ;)
I think people have to get used to the idea of it being ok to make a space for themselves in the fediverse. I think a lot of people probably feel like they are using someone else’s resources and don’t want to cause trouble, ask a silly thing, be a burden, or maybe don’t even understand that they’re allowed to make communities. They only engage with what’s already there but compared to reddit where so much was already going by the time a lot of people made it there, the fediverse can feel rather empty.
The sad truth is that many of these communities will take months of effort by a single or small group of individuals before more people will join in. It means you really need to be into the topic or the community will end up like the one you are trying to revive. Some people find that discouraging but it’s time that can be used to fine tune the community and its content. With a little luck and a lot of effort you’ll find more people interested in the same thing to keep things going when you’re lacking in motivation or content.
It can be frustrating and arduous but when you start seeing the votes, posts, and comments come in it’s all worth it.
Last year i visited Ghibli museum in Japan and as tickets they give you really nice cardboard tickets with a small pice of cinema film in it and if you look against some light source you can see what is on that film so i am designing and 3d printed stand for it that will have some leds to illuminate it when you slide it into it so it will have a microswitch that ticket itself triggers and it will be connected to usb for power so electronicly it will be very simple just usb connector, microswitch, and leds with some resistor and hopefully nice printed case. If it will look nice i will put it on thingverse or something.
Given my angel OC Goodie his wings! He seems pretty happy about it, too… 😌
I love how the angel evolves each time I see it.
Hehe, thank you! 😊
I finally finished some vambraces I’ve been making.
My RKGaming S98 has revealed its stock stabilizers are, frankly, defective. If you press too hard on the left or right side of a stabilized keycap, it will tilt down and get stuck. I’ve tried numerous different caps. I have been procrastinating on taking it apart and replacing the stabs, (which, even more disappointingly, are snap in, and not screw in, which I did not realize when I purchased the keeb). Other than that, I am loving it, although I also need to program some keys to do DEL, HOME, and END by default as well.
