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Not my community, but FYI over on !thrashmetal@lemmy.world, @serpineslair@lemmy.world and @myr@lemmy.world gave notice that they're drawing down their activity: https://lemmy.world/post/38569125
On !vampires@lemmy.zip, @zagorath@aussie.zone finished their Dracula Readthrough that's been going on since May! it was an impressive feat, and a great example of on-topic event-based community building.
!sumo@lemmy.world: the November 15-day tourney is starting up! I'm following the same pattern as last couple tourneys: I did a post a week before it started, and a post today during the start. I'ma do another post towards the middle and another towards the end. The posts basically just have info on how to follow the action, and encourage others to make their own posts. Usually 1-2 people make posts during the tourney, we'll see.
!juggalos@lemmy.world is going along ok, there are 3 main contributors, others sometimes chime in. I've used piefed's scheduling feature to schedule a weekly post from now til the end of the year.
!gothindustrial@lemmy.world is chugging along. (er... clanging along? brooding along?) I've been thinking of ways of cross-posting to and from other communities, e.g. from !wicca@sopuli.xyz and !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip, and to !comicstrips@lemmy.world for example.
Yeah I would have loved to carry on with daily uploads, but there just isn't enough activity there to justify it. The same is happening with my other community, too: !heavymetal@lemmy.world
cc @Myr@lemmy.world @Blaze@piefed.zip
For a while it bothered me that my music-link posts on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world only got like 2-6 upvotes, maybe 10+ if it was a well-known song, and very little discussion. Then I went to look at similar communities on r$ddit, and even there, with several million users, most song posts would get a dozen or so upvotes and little if any discussion.
It makes sense if you think about it. Even if I click on a song I haven't heard before and even if I like the song, what am I gonna say? "yay I like this song"? No, that's just an upvote. More likely I have to click away to hear the song, and I never even get around to going back and upvoting. The only time I comment is if it's a song I already know and it brings back memories or controversies (and then I don't listen to the song!) And that's from someone like me, who really wants to help and promote the community.
The posts on r$ddit that got lots of dicussion were newbies who were asking questions that most experience people already knew: song reccs, or asking about controversies, or "how did you..." or "when did you first.." or "what's your favorite" etc. Then there were relevant announcements/news, video essays, and pics and memes, which often got lots of upvotes. Anyway, when I started posting on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world again, I started making non-music-link posts (cartoons, memes, images, discussions) and as expected, those got more interaction. So somehow it doesn't bother me that some of the song links I post only get 2-6 upvotes. I know that at least some people are hearing the music, or seeing the name / album cover and being aware of the artists. And plus, making all those non-music-link posts is fun!
Your situation is different, I know, bc your communities are specifically defined by being more specific than !metal@lemmy.world. There are much fewer questions or images or memes that wouldn't also apply to the general metal community. Not sure what the answer is. But I just took a look at r/heavymetal or r$ddit and even there, with 20K subscribers (2.4K "currently active"), most song-link posts get less than 5 upvotes.
That reflects my experience as well. A lot of people are ready to comment, you just need to give them a space.
I feel a lil guilty stopping my daily uploads, but I got some stuff happenin irl and my usual pc is on the fritz, it could be an endless cascade of excuses lol. Still feel guilty tho
Nah, no reason to feel guilty. Plus I've done the same anyways.
Cool update, thanks!