I’m tired, boss.
They are petty dead. I’m finding less and less time to post content to keep them active. But I’m trying.
If you have any programming skills, grab the pythorhead library for python (or something similar for a language you prefer), and slap together some code to automate at least some of the parts of regular posting.
And like the other guy said, breaks don’t hurt. I stopped posting to !gameart@sopuli.xyz for a long while and it stopped growing, but once I felt like doing it again, it just resumed chugging along like before.
what community do you mod? Post a link and ill start posting there or advertise in on twitter or something.
A few niche ones.
- !miamihurricanes@fanaticus.social
- !jets@fanaticus.social
- !cfb@fanaticus.social
- !swflorida@lemmy.world
I also mod a couple with Blaze, which do have a good bit of discussion.
Oh hey, on fanaticus.social! I discovered that a little while ago and I am glad people are putting sports communities on the sports instance. I understand the importance of decentralization and that it is good to have several communities about the same thing on different servers, but I first found an MLB community somewhere totally elsewhere than the sports instance, so it pleases me to see someone using the sports instance for sports. I like the idea of interest category instances, like how programming has programming.dev and lots of communities that have to do with programming (such as different ones for different programming languages, for funny stuff, etc.).
I don’t know much about the things your chosen communities are about, unfortunately, so sorry I cannot really help or post. Except…
A post on r/NFL that stuck with me was the one where they go through all the mascots and find out which teams have fewer fans than the thing they are named after, with count of fans guessed based off something like Facebook likes. Maybe I’ll do something like that but for college football. I also remember a video on YouTube ranking some kind of team (forget what sport) by how much their mascot would weigh. Although that might be a bit high-effort for someone like me who doesn’t have much interest in football. Now I’m thinking of that MLB post with the names of the MLB teams if they went by the name of the most common animal in their… region? home state? and spoiler alert it was all ants.
Invite still stands: become an ambassador at https://fediverser.network/communities/jets@nfl.community and you can get all different sources of material + invite other users from reddit to join you. :)
I know nothing about US football, but maybe it would easier to have a generic community for the whole sport rather than communities for each team?
Don’t get down; the specific team ones will probably be difficult for a while but my whole existence on the CFB Reddit was really game threads. Off-season was hard as a I normally wouldn’t comment much unless it was my specific team being talked about, and I’d be surprised if we even had every P4 team represented at this point. I’m hoping it turns into an opportunity to get into other team game threads and learn more about them, but I have season tickets to WVU so home games will be hard to keep up with in-thread.
Quite happy with the influx of new people, so busy with the usual communities (basically everything I posted on the !newcommunities@lemmy.world weekly thread)
Completed an update I’ve been working on for my posting tool for the anime art communities.
It can now suggest things for me to post, specifically prioritising communities in need of activity, preferring artists I like. So my “workflow” is now basically just going yay-or-nay on some posts each day, which then go into the queue. It also takes care of tracking reposts, as well cross-posting to other communities where relevant to promote cross-discovery.
And if I take a break, the posting keeps going until the queue is exhausted (sitting at 400 upcoming posts).
Still posting manually for !gameart@sopuli.xyz, slowly building to a second K of subs.
!dungeonmeshi@ani.social has kept growing past the end of the animes first season airing, and I still have tons to post between now and the second season airing.
I’ve some ideas bouncing around my head for new communities. I’ve been thinking of doing something like the Calvin and Hobbes community, but for the Moomins.
And it looks like !midriffmoe@ani.social will be my second community to hit 1K subs, soon. 🎉
It can now suggest things for me to post, specifically prioritising communities in need of activity, preferring artists I like. So my “workflow” is now basically just going yay-or-nay on some posts each day, which then go into the queue. It also takes care of tracking reposts, as well cross-posting to other communities where relevant to promote cross-discovery.
Very interesting!
I’ve been thinking of doing something like the Calvin and Hobbes community, but for the Moomins.
Neat idea! You’re on a good instance for it. I believe the Moomins have strong ties to Finland, as does sopuli.xyz.
I’m probably stretched too thin but I don’t have any real expectations. When I’m active, they tend to be active. but nothing has taken on its own beyond a small group of Washington Capitals Hockey fans.
I’ve been trying to grow the lemmy.world/c/hardware over past 2 months. The lemmy.ml version of this instance has for more subs, but has relatively low activity considering their size.
I decided to start a new community because I am not ok with the management behind lemmy.ml (I have very good reasons for this).
So far, sub growth has been going ok, but it’s mostly me posting, although comment engagements are decent.
That being said, this is not a niche topic.
I really wish that we stop creating/promoting communities on LW. It’s just too much happening at one single place. I feel discouraged to participate in any nascent communities there.
There is also !hardware@hardware.watch , which has been inactive but I am expecting to start seeing more activity once more people start migrating through Fediverser. If you want to try it over there I’d gladly make you a mod, and could help you with new posts.
I feel you regarding making LW too big (when I first joined Lemmy, I didn’t really get the relationship between different instances), but I’ve put in a lot of effort in !hardware@lemmy.world to switch.
Happy to crosspost to any more specialized communities in other instances (there tends to be a lot of news about tech hardware about different topics every day).
I’ve put in a lot of effort in !hardware@lemmy.world to switch.
This is a textbook example of the sunk-cost fallacy.
Don’t worry about “wasted effort”. That’s in the past. It would be better to look forward and see the potential growth that can be had if we work together.
There is !linuxhardware@programming.dev who got started recently, maybe you can help there?
