[Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

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.
- Take a break! They are not going anywhere, and it's good to be away for some time
- Your football communities should pick up in the next month. I'm a sooner - think I'm going to take this year off.
- 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.

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.
  
  Well, yes. Tove Jansson was finnish. Though swedish-speaking.

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).
- There is !linuxhardware@programming.dev who got started recently, maybe you can help there?
  
  Cheers! Will crosspost Linux hardware topics, they do come up somewhat regularly.

Taking it pretty passively. I get enough weird short* videos recommended to me that I share something to !nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works about once a week which is a good rate for casual growth.
But then I think of the less original ones that feel less like my own little project which I often forget. !vintageads@sh.itjust.works is doing pretty well mostly unattended. I've kind of neglected !soundfontcovers@sh.itjust.works
Recently made !theonion@sh.itjust.works too just in case the Midwest admin ever let's things get to their head.

I absolutely BLEW MY TOP, then apologised profusely on my community.
Which is all good, I suppose, but... my sub still needs another mod.
- Hello,
  I just went through your post, sorry to hear. I totally relate with getting upset at times when your community is not as successful as you would have thought.
  Is there anything we can do to help? Do you think you need another mod?
  
  Ack, sorry for the late reply, Blaze! :S
  Is there anything we can do to help?
  Appreciate. <3
  I think I've made the critical adjustment necessary, which is to not push myself anymore, trying to make one post per day. It was very ambitious, and it seems to have grown our subscribers a lot over the months, but it's just too much for me with the low energy, aching hands & back, etc.
  Other than that, I think my disillusionment with my community & Lemmy overall is fading a bit. Indeed, one has to keep adjusting one's expectations across life, mais non?
  Do you think you need another mod?
  Yes, there are three distinct positions available.
  My current mod to me is like an old friend, life preserver, and provider of cool Moebius stuff, but his time is limited for this extra stuff.