After humming and hawing about it ever since the Reddit API migration, I decided that if I wanted to see it on Lemmy I really should make it so.
One of the things that I missed the most from Reddit was the strength training subs, as they were great motivation to stay consistent, and the occasional program parties were a lot of fun. A bunch of folks trying to get through super squats and drinking a gallon of whole milk per day made for some pretty interesting workout reports.
I have not traditionally been a community builder in the past, but I believe there is big a gap in the Fediverse where strength training should be.
Its just getting off the ground so too early to say how its going. But I have picked up a lot of valuable info from this sub and the others on the sidebar, thanks for that
!Bside@fedia.io an alternative gaming community is still growing slowly. There are now 141 subscribers. I keep posting regularly indie game news or links to games directly that seem to be interesting. Agent_Karyo helps a lot with posting on the community. Last Sunday I posted the third issue of the web zine, which is basically a mega-post with a collection of news, articles, top 10s, and more done in the style resembling an old gaming computer magazine.
Honestly, the success of !television@lemm.ee is pretty much based on whats going on in the world regarding tv news and updates. Not much in the last 3 days admittedly. I do make the occasional question thread, but I’m wary of sounding like a broken record - and there’s not enough of a base audience yet to do other things communities do.
Still on track to hit that 1,000 subs in about a week or so tho.
Here’s a great example of how a regularly-occurring post can help grow a community. On !vampires@lemmy.zip @Zagorath@aussie.zone is posting the novel Dracula “as it happens” on a calendar. It’s an epistolary novel, so they’ve posted the chapters for May 3, 4, and 5 so far and will post the remaining chapters over the next couple months as that day occurs. (The first 2 chapters are pretty short so you can catch up easily if you want to read along!)
- the chapters in order posted so far
- the community: !vampires@lemmy.zip
A little more context for anyone not aware. Epistolary just means it’s like the book equivalent of the Blair Witch Project. It claims to be written not by some outside author like most books, but to be the literal transcriptions of the characters’ diary entries, letters, news articles, and phonograph recordings. All of these are of course dated in-universe, with the first of Jonathan Harker’s diary entries taking place on 3rd May. So we’re reading through it as it happens.
Days 1 and 2 are very short, and there isn’t any entry on 6 May, so you’ve got plenty of time to catch up if you want to join in on 7th May.
Minor correction: the days don’t actually match up to “chapters” of the book. Chapter 1 is made up of 3, 4, and half of 5 May. Chapter 2 is the 2nd half of 5 May, 7 May, and the 1st half of 8 May. I’m not 100% sure as I’ve never read the book this way before, but I believe later on, doing it this way will actually mean we read it slightly out of the normal reading order, too, especially as relates to the news articles and shifting POVs.
!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is going great. We’ve now gone past the 2500 members mark which is astonishing considering when I started it I didn’t know if we’d get anyone! I’ve brought a 2nd mod on and she’s already being amazing! Predictably got some aggressive men unhappy cos we’re women only.
Lots of movement since the last one of these posts. crazypeople.online hit a mini milestone of 50 users recently, continuing our slow and steady membership growth. The communities look like this-
!weedtime@crazypeople.online
- +40 subscribers, now over 320
!eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online
- +20 subscribers, nearing 270
!loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online
- +5 subscribers, nearing 160
!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online
- +10 subscribers, now over 150
!autoracing@crazypeople.online
- +20 subscribers, now over 100
Activity has been up pretty much everywhere but !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online as several others are posting and commenting in the communities. !weedtime@crazypeople.online is a regular feature on the !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl bot and our other communities make semi regular appearances there too. Slowly but surely we are building something cool together and I appreciate you all for it. Thank you for checking us out and joining in!
I made a new community today !stupid_questions@lemmings.world. It is a simple community, appreciating absurd questions (not in my community, but the recently asked question 100 men vs gorrila also fits in it). Due to nature of community, it can actually be more interlinked with other communities, for example the gorilla question would be also fit in a biomechanics community ( i do not think we have one yet) but maybe biomechanics community does not have any (or many) subscribers, then stupid_questions folk can also join them. This somewhat happened (to soon to say much about this, all hypothesising) with first post, about brand new sentences, which is now cross posted to linguistics community. I think this can plug in a “humor” “hole” for many communities. General asking communities definitely do appreciatie humor, but may not be “nerdy” enough (i do not like using this word, especially on lemmy, where i could practically categorise everyone using lemmy to be a nerd, if you have a better one please do tell) to willingly subscribe to a “absurdism” community. My guess would be that people who appreciate absurd stuff, might have a stronger correlation with those who are interested in academicc disciplines. Maybe it is a wrong hunch, but my time on internet for however long i have been on it suggests that.
Nice initiative, good luck!
thanks, appreciated
