Fedigrow

[email protected] has been getting some people posting things of their own lately and it's been really nice to see!

A couple people have submitted pics they've taken of owls they've encountered, and there's been some art and articles. Good variety of things.

I like it because I don't mind posting all the things as the content is pretty easy to get, but it's all coming from my taste and perspective on what is interesting, so it's good to see what I'm missing or overlooking, plus I like seeing people's real life experiences with nature.

I'd been feeling uninspired, and this has given me a big boost as it feels I've finally inspired some others to contribute. I'm happy to teach and answer questions, but seeing others take an active role in the growth of the community is truly something else. I want it to be a space for everyone to be happy and enjoy each other being there together looking at beautiful nature things.

Also I've been having decent luck incorporating more non-English speaking content. Got nice photos and stories from Kuwait, China, Slovenia, France, Germany and others rolling in now. It increases variety and perspective, and I like learning about the language and culture aspects from other users and from just reading and learning the terms to find the content. A German user also provided some links to German animal rescues for the sidebar links.

Comments feel a bit slower, but with all the other good, I'm not going to sweat that right now. Activity is still there overall.

Promoted my [email protected] community on [email protected] for the first time. Gained ~10 subs.

Not great, no idea how to grow a continuity clearly. https://lemmy.world/c/cars

Routine

• [email protected] still good
• [email protected] is still competing with [email protected], but I guess that will be the same for a while
• [email protected] gets some upvotes

I haven't been able to post as much this past week compared to normal, but things have been going ok:

• [email protected] is actually kind of booming right now with the start of a new season of shows. I have seen lots of first-time commenters chiming in on episode threads. It actually hit ~300 users/day at one point over the weekend.
• [email protected] has been calm but active. There are a handful of other fairly reliable posters that have been able to keep things going while I have been away.

The not as active ones:

• [email protected] - I inherited this community when the previous moderator had to step away for an extended period of time. The nokotan community in general is very meme-heavy, and I just don't really know how to engage with that very well. There is only so much non-meme content about the series. So, I am going to try to binge-read the manga and start posting chapter discussion threads when new chapters are released. I just need to find the time to do that.
• [email protected] - This is another kind of special case. The current, most active Gundam community is [email protected]. However, that instance announced that they are shutting down later this month. The current users over there were interested in setting up a new community but there wasn't anybody that wanted to moderate. So, I offered my help in that respect. It just started this past week, so there isn't much there yet, but I am going to try to keep posting any Gundam-related content I find over there.

The pikas will return. My mental health just hit the floor, and I've been struggling. Hope things are better for y'all.

All of them are working as intended, can't ask for much more than that. I don't think it's healthy to get caught up in subscribers and all that too much. Things are generally trending positively, good enough for me.

There's been a disappointing uptick in negative interactions on the fediverse lately (IMO) and that's more disturbing to me than community numbers. Some (again, IMO) questionable decisions are being made in some of the larger places on the fediverse but a lot of it is users taking it as a challenge or a right of passage to get banned from communities or instances so they can meme and rant about it. It's silly behavior and we can do better than this.

Still posting daily on [email protected] still getting barely any traction on anything and still have barely any engagement.

Still not too bothered either though. It's a very niche subject on a niche platform and I'm happy posting into a void, I know a few people stop by and that is enough for now :)

Trying to get [email protected] more active, small success so far

!news_[email protected] has been getting some decent engagement all posts get a couple of votes and some have bewn getting decent commenter engagement.

[email protected] really starting to overthrow [email protected]. Pinging the last few posters on the midwest.social to the post helps.

[email protected] has 72 subscribers and my posts are getting a decent amount of votes and a few comments. Not bad for a 5 day old community!

[email protected] is pretty chill, just me posting pics of my dog I don't expect that to go anywhere. It's just for fun.

Been trying to get some life into [email protected], but it's been slow growing the subscriber count. I'm really happy to see [email protected] has picked up its own momentum and is getting content beyond just my posts.

I've recently started three communities, right now they are basically just me posting journal entries, or things I organically find along the internet.

[email protected] Is all science based journaling

[email protected] Is casual LCHF discussion

[email protected] Is casual Carnivore discussion.

The last community got lots of negative attention, the name was unfortunate, but that is the name in the literature and it is triggering for some of the other lemmy users. ASF is used on occasion, but that is mostly in agriculture literature.

I've found it is useful to have a journal that you can link to, and discuss with people, so its a net positive use case, though it is very niche.

For the casual communities I look for content that can prime the social pump so people feel comfortable interacting (mostly youtube cooking videos for now)