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Blaze (he/him) @sopuli.xyz

6mo ago

How are you doing with your communities?

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I consistently posted to !streetwear@lemmy.world with the goal of getting to 1,000 subscribers in the hopes that a large subscriber base would encourage people to show off their outfits.
But I'm not holding my breath since there just aren't enough people into fashion on Lemmy. Now that I've reached my goal (yay) I'm moving on to other things 🫡
- 1.01K subscribers, pretty damn cool, but yeah a bit disappointing to see just two people running the show.
- Congrats on hitting your goal!
- I do like fashion.
  I always thought "streetwear" implied a certain kind of style that is not my cup of tea, and I am very uncomfortable posting a picture myself online, even if I censor my face out.
  
  Yeah, streetwear is fashion rooted in youth subcultures. Another somewhat active fashion community is !malefashionadvice@lemmy.world

I can get upvotes, but getting other people to post/comment/crosspost is nearly impossible lol
- It is the nature of things. Most users just post something the occasional time they find something to post.
  Going about finding something to post is the unusual behaviour. I've had users come and go in my communities, and even repeat posters still do so sporadically.
  I did notice a lot of your communities don't have icons or banners. That definitely makes a difference when people look for where to share something. No icon makes the community seem dead or like it never got started.
  An icon instantly sets a community apart in the results, both in search and the create post page. The sub and active counts are the second thing people look at, after that, I suspect.
  
  Thanks, you're right I need to make icons and banners, I'm a terrible artist though lol
  
  I look for things to post on some of the communities I follow. Unfortunately I cannot commit to doing this regularly for all communities I follow.
  Also, your icon need not be made by you, so even if your art skills are as mediocre as mine it is fine! Grab some Creative Commons thing, slap it on your community, and attribute it. That is what !newcommunities@lemmy.world did.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee has been roaring, thanks to the tsunami of posts by @Don_Dickle@lemmy.world. @perishthethought@lemm.ee, @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net, and a couple others have been backing them up.
!truecomics@midwest.social has been barelling along. Interestingly, the mod and frequent poster @clark@midwest.social is going back to school this week and thus will not be posting as much. Will be interesting to see if others take over.
!streetwear@lemmy.world - Kind of sad to see @Jilanico@lemmy.world stop posting, but I get it.
- Ayyy! :D
  I didn't realize I'd been contributing that much there, glad to have helped it thrive! Thanks for the mention ^
- Great for !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee !
  I haven't followed up on the streetwear new, I'll check

I thought that !humanscale@communick.news started to show some signs of life a couple of weeks ago, with good comments on some posts of mine and even got a first post from someone other than me. Alas, summer break broke the momentum.
- Sorry to hear 😕

!bicycle_touring@lemmy.world is doing pretty damn good, considering the fact that the english speaking general cycling communities with way more subscribers see so little traffic. I guess after the season it will die down quite a bit, but season's still on. Yes, season's still on, so strap some luggage on your bike and get going.
- Just had a look, pretty crazy participation levels in the german speaking cycling community !fahrrad@feddit.org . I reckon it's the most active cycling community on lemmy, even though it also only has like ten times less subscribers than the english ones.
  
  Feddit .org keeps delivering

Quite happy with !casualconversation@lemm.ee lately

Started a new specialized community focused on monitors on lemme.ee to avoid centralisation with LW.
https://lemm.ee/c/monitors
It's going fine for a new community.
- Nice, good luck!
  Also, FYI there is !android@lemdro.id rather than !android@lemmy.world

Wish Lemmy Scheduler worked with Mbin, because I found a lot of good posts for !digitalgarden@lemmy.world that would best be spaced out to avoid spamming and to keep the community active for a decent period of time.
- Worst case scenario, you can set up (yet another) alt and use it with Lemmy Scheduler

You already know lol
- Apologies for the OT: I sent you a DM some weeks ago asking if you'd be interested in running the Fediverser services with your instance, to make it as a possible destination for redditors migrating via https://fediverser.network.

I'm happy with them.

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