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How are you doing with your communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

!sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz got more activity last week, which is really cool!

!buyeuropean@feddit.uk had someone post a question and immidiately got plenty of answers. Awesome to see that.

What I struggle a bit with is the consistent 2 downvotes and sometimes more on seemingly completely innocent posts? Because when a community is small this affects visibility in my understanding? The first votes are often the two downvotes.

I had a theory that some app "hides" posts on downvote and guessed that people are scrolling "all" and downvoting as they go through the posts.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What I struggle a bit with is the consistent 2 downvotes and sometimes more on seemingly completely innocent posts? Because when a community is small this affects visibility in my understanding? The first votes are often the two downvotes.

You can use tesseract.dubvee.org/ to view downvotes. If someone downvotes all of your content without commenting, I would just ban them

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks Blaze, I remember that votes are not actually anonymous in threadiverse but was too lazy to figure out a way to check them. I'll check out tesseract and try to figure out whether these are random downvotes or is someone just being a dick.

I honestly don't care about downvotes but it does seem to affect visibility in some sorted feeds like "Hot" no?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

It does, indeed. Not sure about the calculation, but it has an impact

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can use tesseract.dubvee.org/ to view downvotes.

How does this work?! I tried it but didn't see names. Is this a mod only feature?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you look at a post of a community you mod, there's a small shield icon that allows you to see votes

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh boo, now I can't get vengeance. I got no mod powers.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I thought you had 😄

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nah, I just want power with no responsibility.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

!superbowl@lemmy.world was great yesterday. Lots of content from other posters. Everyone had a good time and nobody complaining about the very light US sport theme this year as opposed to last year. Love to see it.

Got another comment from someone that just checks in to Lemmy periodically and they said they were happy to see the community still doing so well and they're glad it's here to be a positive space during unpleasant times. I always like hearing what I do is having a positive impact.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That community is killing it! Always a bright spot ij my day!

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Always happy to hear it!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Well done!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

!lego@lemm.ee is quite a success, it's probably going to be my main focus for this week

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

!scp@lemmy.world, !lovecraft_mythos@lemmy.world, !cosmichorror@lemm.ee are doing well.

https://lemmy.world/c/horrorlit, !godzilla@lemmy.world and !analog_horror_footage@lemmy.world are a little niche but not awful.

!creepypasta@lemmy.world is so so.

Anyone interested to become a moderator is more than welcome.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to promote them all on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ! Maybe something like "Horror communities"?

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Love the cosmic horror one — thanks for that!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Happy to have @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com posting on !imaginary@reddthat.com too

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the encouragement!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

On that topic, I'm going to stop posting the pokemon art to !pokemon@lemm.ee, and consolidate it with !imaginary@reddthat.com

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

!movies@lemm.ee and !showsandmovies@lemm.ee still good.

!movies@lemmy.world is now basically just one person posting.

I've requested !moviesandtv@lemm.ee to the lemm.ee admin, let's see how it goes.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fragmentation kills the fediverse.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I am well aware, that's why I'm trying to consolidate all the movies discussions on one community.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you give a quick rundown of what all the various movie/tv communities are for? I'd like to post stuff there, but I feel so lost as there's movies, animation, the anime communities, movies and tv, individual show communities, etc. It feels overwhelming where the best place to post something is. Many times I've just watched something and say, hey I Just watched X, this is what I thought. Have you seen it too and what did you think?

Most of the posts on many of the communities look like industry news, and the names are all very similar I don't remember which ones I've looked at or not.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Of course! The main ones are

For the other ones

  • !movies@lemmy.world is kept alive by one person that really doesn't want to switch to the lemm.ee version
  • !moviesandtv@lemm.ee has a powertripping mod. I requested the community to the lemm.ee admin this week to lock it down (the mod hasn't been active for a few weeks now).

There are specific shows communities too, they are listed on the pinned post of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee

Edit: and then there is !animation@lemm.ee, for animation. But you can post those on !movies@lemm.ee as well, it's fine.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you kindly!

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

just made a new post in the schizophrenia community. !schizophrenia@lemmy.ca

https://lemmy.ca/post/38888819

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Feel free to promote the community itself on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca !

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I will make a post there!

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be nicely thematic, shouldn't there be one schizophrenia comm per instance?

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

I made the community on my home instance but feel free to make a new one on your instance too!