For people interested on a political community discussion community: !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

Keeping !showsandmovies@lemm.ee alive

Trying to help !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works to get more activity. There was !oldgamers@lemmy.world started a few days ago. I suggested the mod to join patientgamers, they were not convinced. Let’s see how it goes.

!expectationvsreality@lemm.ee got a nice boost with a post too, that seems a community that can be easy to grow.

Maybe you can start discussions yourself? A generic “how is everyone doing with our hobby”?

their hobbies or interests.

What are your hobbies or interests? There is probably a community that could use more discussion indeed. I usually recommend moderators of niche communities to set up a weekly thread so that people can discuss things. The best is to have a few users posting daily, but that’s harder to find the most niche the community is (hence why focusing on more generic communities probably makes sense with the current userbase)

Pronouns in display names are important

The mods should probably consider merging those communities.

!factorio@lemmy.world seems to be the most active ones, they other much less

It is implemented on Lemmy 0.19.4. Lemmy.world is one of the few instances still running 0.19.3

You might want to have a look at Piefed topics: https://piefed.social/

I was always surprised there was no US instance.

A way of scheduling posts within lemmy.

http://schedule.lemmings.world

Maybe a little icon that shows where things are being posted from. So if I see a user with a mastodon showing up in the feed with a formatting mistake ill know why.

That’s the Fediverse icon next to each comment and post?

It would be nice for instances to have a monthly server cost that tracks donations.

Lemmy.zip has that on their home community !home@lemmy.zip

Search the remote post URL in your search bar, it will open locally

This is available in Lemmy 0.19.5, which almost all instances use except Lemmy.world

Everytime I see your username I smile

Agreed, not sure if it’s unpopular.

You didn’t get me.

On a small instance, remote communities are only federated if a user subscribes to that community. It wasn’t the case for that community on OP’s instance. It’s a technical issue, no instances politics at hand here

No, it’s more than as their instance is quite small, nobody federated with that precise community

Didn’t even know Venom was out

Yes if they are specifically creating said content to nurture Lemmy.

The issue is finding people wanting to create such content.

When you look at who create the posts here, it’s probably around 50 people in the general communities. The 50 of us prevent the platform from looking like a ghost town, out of 44k active users. And that’s an easy job, it’s just repost content from Reddit. How many artists, data visualizers, etc do you think we have here?

Artists wise, the only one I know is David Revoy who does nice work to promote Mastodon and others: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1043/my-neighbor-mastodon-and-fediverse

But that’s about it. You have some people sharing their creations on !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works or !artshare@lemmy.world , but would those creations stand out if shared on Reddit, next to dozens of similar artwork?

I’m trying to be realistic here, OC would be nice, but we probably don’t have the numbers, and more importantly, we are competing against Reddit 2024.

I think the platform inspires snark and winner takes all mentality.

It’s really community dependant. As I said, tech communities can be quite toxic

Interesting, thanks for sharing