I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there’s a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I’ve blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.
But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy’s, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country’s Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?
I’ve never wanted to be in it.
It’s a bit of a mixed bag, and the real thing is that there are other people who want to talk about it here. Trust me, I run a Taylor Swift community here, and it is an uphill battle - but it’s worth it because there are people who care and enjoy the community.
If you’re up for it, choose one or two communities and then nurture them. When reddit imploded 2 years ago we came over and we had a ton of people open hundreds of communities and then abandon them, people just opened them left and right and then expected a large audience the next day. Instead expect it to follow the 90-9-1 rule. Out of a hundred people, 90 of them will lurk and never participate. 9 will comment, and one will post. You will need to be the one to post for a while - but it will grow over time.
Take care of the communities, let them know you’re here to stay, and that it’s a place where you can chat about it. We’re a lot of nerds here, but nerds can also like football, there’s !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz that is usually pretty quiet but obviously people subscribed to it.
And if you’re a swiftie make sure to stop by !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
Thank you so much for running the Taylor Swift & popheads community here!! It was one of your other comments somewhere that really inspired me start posting and commenting around the fediverse. It does take work to cultivate a community, which I have taken for granted being just a lurker in reddit/in general.
Thanks! Yeah it does take quite a bit, patience is the key. Originally I was excited that 200 people followed, but then learning that it means only a handful of comments will pop each time. It goes constantly though, and that always feels great!
I maintain that we need to be funneling engagement into fewer communities. I mod !cad@lemmy.world but I probably shouldn’t. It should probably be co-located with a 3D printing community, but the name makes anybody doing subtractive or 2D feel excluded.
In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.
The APIpocalypse resulted in a land grab followed immediately by “Wagons East!” back to Reddit by many of the new mods, leaving us with every named neighborhood we might want, yet feeling Balkanized because you feel like you should respect the communities’ boundaries, but there isn’t anyone there in the “perfect” one and likely won’t be for some time.
and unfortunately no good way to say “This community is closed, we are all over at othercommunity!”
Yeah, and it’s certainly not anything wrong that the users and mods did in creating the communities that did gain traction. Just one of the unique challenges of setting up shop here.
Dedicated comms should be popping off of more general ones like so many Mogwai spores, but things happened differently and it is what it is.
Well, there is: https://lemmy.world/post/24312613
In a perfect world, maybe there’d be a “Makers” community that was, sure, 70% 3D printing, but the other 30% wouldn’t feel like they needed to leave and shout into a void, and people into 3D printing would get to see cool shit done with other tools.
Have you tried reaching out to the mods of !3dprinting@lemmy.world ?
Also, I just created a thread to promote manual hobbies communities on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca , feel free to add yours!
I’ve seen a lot of communities shift instances and change names. At least that seems to work here, so I wouldn’t feel too bad about disrespecting the unmoderated ones.
Obviously the active ones I would stick with
Yeah, it’s just an administrative and “marketing” question. You would never want to harm a community that’s doing well. One just sort of wishes that the reddit refugees (myself included) had been a bit more thoughtful in how the Fediverse world work most efficiently at the size it is.
I like the analogy that it’s a small and slightly isolated town, but one where people are pretty friendly. There’s plenty of people to talk to, but the only issue is, say, if you wanna talk sports you may need to find the couple of folks at the coffee shop who actually like sports and hang out with them whether they’re talking about your favorite team or not. There’s the Linux factory in town, though, and most of us have at least a passing interest in the goings-on there. 🤣
Is there a “pop culture” comm somewhere? Something more specific than like, “usa” and more general than e.g. hiphopheads?
I have a pop music one at !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech but don’t know of a more generic one
Hiphopheads community hosted on my home instance, and I had no idea it even existed. . Lemmy is never living down the poor community discoverability allegations.
Kudos on trying to keep the TS community alive here. I don’t really follow her outside of whatever hits the radio/wider pop culture news, but I remember when I moved to Lemmy your community would hit my front page and I was insanely jealous of everyone kee-keeing together in the comments. Maybe you’re right and I should start shitposting about my hobbies on Lemmy, but dang it’s hard going from a consumer to an active poster in any social media lol.
Lemmy is never living down the poor community discoverability allegations.
Feel free to join !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for regular recommendation threads
It really is, but I’ve found that a surprisingly large amount of people like what I like. I also mod !satisfactory@lemmy.world and honestly when I post there it’s mostly just screenshots. People then ask questions and it’s a good time, if news drops or a video drops I’ll just paste a link in there, something to get the discussion going. There’s also some other great members who do similar. That’s really all it takes to get a small community off the ground
I need to redload reddit or some frontend so I can steal interesting links from there to post, one day ill be bored and feel like growing some communities
When you want to, join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
I saw you commented several times on this thread, so just want to take the time here and thank you for all that you do to promote Lemmy communities and fedi in general, Blaze! You’re one of the people who’s efforts is what keeps me using Lemmy as my primary form of online engagement.
Thank you for your nice comment!
I mean, post the content and people will come? I think a lot of people would have commented on these things if they saw the thread
This is true, but 1) It’s hard going from a passive consumer of a community to a facilitator of discussions (I have anxiety issues lol) but also 2) It’s hard to even know/find if there’s a community TO post in, you know?
Maybe I’m just a Lemmy noob after almost two years here, but I do find community discoverability harder here, and there’s always discussions of fractionating communities even further. I don’t want to risk creating a new community, take up server space that my instance host generously provides, and then find out it was redundant.
I support Palestine and trans people
This feels like some kind of religious catechism, uttered to allay the suspicions of those who might question your standing as a member of a virtuous tribe.
Personally, I support Palestine and Israel, trans people and feminists. The world is complicated, history even more so, and individual moral situations must be judged on their merits.
I like to think that one difference between mainstream social media and this place is that here people might choose to think a bit more.
How exactly do you support a genocidal state and the people it’s genociding at the same time?
You don’t think that’s a massive contradiction?
Genocide is a big powerful word that gets your blood pumping, that’s why you use it twice in the same sentence. But what exactly was October 7th, for you?
There are no massive contradictions here, only a lot of ignorant keyboard warriors who look at a complex world and see black and white.
BOTH SIDES EVERYTHING
So enlightened.
Your phrasing makes it appear as if trans people and feminists are on opposite sides of an issue, which they aren’t. Only a small subset of feminism-appropriating weirdoes call themselves anti-trans feminists.
And your inflammatory vocab choices suggest that you’re not interested in calm discussion over issues where people’s individual rights do, indeed, sometimes come into conflict.
inflammatory vocab choices?
Lol what? How was that comment not calm? What a fucking lame way to duck an argument.
Other than weirdo, can you specify? I don’t think saying feminists and trans people are on the same team is a very controversial statement, at least for non-TERFs.
non-TERFs
There you go again. You know very well that this is a derogatory term that is used to shut down debate. And you must also know there are a handful of situations (females in sports, children’s medicine) where legitimate rights come into conflict. You have your views and values about these situations, I’m sure, but it’s silly (I will refrain from any worse judgements) to pretend that debate on these subjects is morally illegitimate.
Personally I find this whole subject incredibly boring so that’s all I have to say here.
How does debate about women’s sports (in my opinion, an overblown and distracting issue to cover for more serious anti-trans sentiment and legislation, when it affects a handful of people) and children’s medicine (a non-issue, trans children cannot transition and puberty blockers are proven to be safe and effective, frequently used by cis children going through early puberty, and non-damaging long term if a child later decides to resume the natural course of surgery, whereas allowing puberty to continue IS permanently damaging) come into conflict with feminism? What do you even think feminism is? TERF isn’t a derogatory term, it’s a self-assigned label that has come into hot water more recently for being bigoted. I’m not pretending that debate on those subjects is silly. It’s very serious. These subjects are frequently used as excuses to pass further and further restrictions on people living entirely outside the scope of said subjects. What I’m asking you is where feminism comes into play?
Seriously. You can’t just state feminism as the opposite side of the debate against trans people. That’s insane. Feminists support equality of all genders. Feminists believe trans women are women, and their rights should be protected. Go to any feminist rally, and see how many trans flags are there. You’re conflating the belief in gender equality with the belief in “protecting women from trans women.” I’m not stifling discussion. I’m questioning the appropriation of progressive ideals to turn progressives against each other, which, whether intentional or not, you’re contributing to. It’s like saying you see both sides of the issue between immigrants and crime victims.
As a feminist, who participates in local organizations, and reads theory, don’t appropriate the ideas of gender equality to oppose those that most need its support.
I’ve followed “gender critical feminists” for a while, and in the early 2010s they did claim “TERF”. It’s only when it became better known to the outgroup and that they, accurately, overly focused on trans women to explain how evil they were, that they tried to rebrand and used “TERF is a slur”.
Yeah, but every time I hear about celebrity shit it’s fucking stupid and it pisses me off so I consider missing it a good thing.
No. I make my own pop culture.
Gonna be honest, pop culture is the thing about Reddit I miss the least. I couldn’t care less what drama some rich people are getting into, unless that drama is their yachts being sunk by killer whales.
The place was truly dead when the front page became indistinguishable from supermarket tabloids.
Ooooh, we do need a Eurovision community if we don’t have one already.
Feel free to post about the idea on !yurop@lemm.ee !
YES LETS GO! Subscribed. That place better be popping off in May.
We did have a Luka to the Lakers over on !nba@lemmy.world
Just saying.
I’m exclusively on the fediverse, I don’t feel disconnected from pop culture at all. There is a lot of politics and meta discussion, I’ll give you that
Subscribed, thanks! I searched NBA on the global community search and got nothing, I wonder if it just wasn’t federated on my instance yet.
I wish I was there losing my mind with the rest of you last week
It’s hard to figure out why some communities show up and others don’t on the search. It’s definitely a good idea to subscribe to !newcommunities@lemmy.world and other communities like it to make sure you don’t miss them when they come up. I think someone was working on a better search for Lemmy but it seems to be abandoned
Thank you, I couldn’t remember the latest community address when typing out my reply
Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.
Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funk Pops don’t do anything - you just have them.
So really I think it’s just me.
Hahaha yeah Funko Pop collectors are so weird right hahahaha
-casually hides my Play Arts Kai Sephiroth and Cloud behind a curtain-
I would probably subscribe, as I love collecting and discussing all kinds of random events.
Youtube has been my main source for this stuff since I left reddit for good. I really went deep into Kanye/Drake since it was still considered a rap battle.
I watched hours of the Sean Combs development.
Mr Beast drama has been a big part of my entertainment as well.
And while my Youtube feed is usually sports free, I couldnt escape the Donçic transfer.
I dont watch TV or streaming services, so this is my entertainment before going to bed. Giving me world-politics that late just keeps me awake.
Mr Beast drama has been a big part of my entertainment as well.
This shit was/is RIDICULOUS. I dropped off of it because life got busy but man…Youtubers were a mistake…
Yeah, it was tough to stay to the facts and not get sucked into an endless self feeding loop of beast Drama.
!nba@lemmy.world has a bunch of active users, including me.
I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.
Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it’s filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.
I think that’s more mastodon’s flawed search than anything. Cause it’ll only look for the specific term, so if someone don’t use Kendrick’s full name, it’s not gonna show up. Or if you look by tag, you won’t see much anything cause no one tags half their stuff
That definitely hinders discoverability. My feed is basically a depressing mix of climate change and politics.
Yes, the search is bad on the microblogging side of fedi
There’s indeed only one post on !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz with 25 votes and 0 comments
Only when it comes to hearing about new games. For all the people I see in random non-game threads that mention games or get game references, there’s next to no activity in the game-related communities.
I feel that. I find it funny that the retro gaming communities here are more active than the regular ones lol, unless a big gaming company does something shitty (as they are always doing).
I once thought about making a post about how funny it is that Godzilla, the embodiment of the horrors of nuclear war, and Hatsune Miku are now in a game doing the griddy together. But then I realised I didn’t want to get absolutely roasted for playing Fortnite with my friends every now and then.
