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[–] hitstun@fedia.io 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, my favorite part of running a community is when a new face joins and posts something they like. It doesn't matter if their posts don't look like mine. Other people's posts make me feel like I'm not just posting into the void.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello,

Shout out to you and your very cool community !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io!

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

Thank you! And also, thank you for sticking up for us on Reddit and helping the whole community grow. Keep up the good work!

[–] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shoutout to @Pugjesus for keeping shit alive!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Just trying my best to keep things alive until they're self-sustaining!

[–] Emperor 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It definitely feels like the community has gained some kind of traction.

Also is Catbox working for you? I've not been able to access it for weeks.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Catbox is working fine for me. Below, there should be a video of Scott Kelly in a gorilla suit on the ISS.

[–] Emperor 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ISP problem use DNS or VPN.

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tried it and just did some tinkering with the DNS settings, nothing.

I've been using a UK-based site to check if it's down and that does show it as down when others, from elsewhere, show it as up but jumping between Germany and the US makes no difference.

edit: tried via Belgium and Japan and got nothing but Poland has worked. I can't explain that.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It definitely works for me.

Ah, too bad, are you still able to see the picture?

[–] Emperor 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can see images hosted on the files subdomain but can't access the site's front page or watch videos on there. Weird.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Weird indeed, but at least you can see images

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah, it's a good feeling.

I was keeping !noyank@lemmy.ml going for months, now I just check in every so often, and there's starting to be conversations there, and it's almost at 300. It's not the most active community in the 'verse, but it is active. Cheers to Emperor and velox vulnus for contributing

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Nice community, I remember seeing it a while back. Good to make the exercise to remember how prevalent US culture can be in other countries.

[–] hitstun@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

As a Yank myself, I actually appreciate that community. Lemmy and Mbin have worldly, logical arguments that wouldn't get far on an American social media echo chamber. If the rest of the world doesn't make themselves heard loud and clear, civilization will collapse.

[–] Emperor 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No worries - I try and pick up on media that doesn't come from the US as it keeps things interesting (even if the most engagement comes from American blockbusters), so happy to cross-post there too.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Feels good man!

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Oh it's the best.

[–] Mex 5 points 1 month ago

I feel seen.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've basically lost all interest in keeping my communities alive at this point. I tried posting daily myself, I encouraged others to join in, I had bots pulling content from reddit to have any activity there, people grew discontent but didn't post themselves. Basically back to square one and don't feel like starting out again. Guess I'm good without them

[–] sag@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Post once in a week. No need to post daily. Like I do in !balatro@lemm.ee. Also, I was thinking to post in !sekiro@lemmy.zip but will never post on !bloodborne@lemmy.zip until it get remastered or ported to PC.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many posts at a time do you post?

One can hope that there will be some movement in the Bloodborne camp sometime in the future

[–] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

2 or 3 atleast

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's fine, your niches were probably too small for the current lemmy population.
Souls-like fans will probably have to go to more generalist video game communities

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I checked out a couple of your posts on reddit where you also mention that we had an active community of around 70k people across the entirety of Lemmy. I was under the impression that we're a lot more. In light of that, it makes sense they didn't pop off more. Shittydarksouls seems general enough to gather enough people

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

It's even less than that, it's 45k monthly active users

Didn't know about !shittydarksouls@lemmy.world , so it's probably where most of the people are

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried to keep a few communities that I made going, but I've burned out on my hobby and haven't found anything else worth posting. It can definitely be draining.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

It definitely does

[–] sag@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Litterally me whenever someone post on !balatro@lemm.ee

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yay for lemmy contributors. I love finding new things to post in the few communities I frequent, it's fun for me, believe it or not. But it's also great to see others get a kick from the same things.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you for your posts!

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about creating a post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world ? That usually gives the best visibility

I'll also add you to the "manual hobbies" thread, but a dedicated post would be better

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Thanks M8, will do

[–] Mex 5 points 1 month ago

Ooh, I have no skills in bonsai but I do enjoy looking at them, subscribed

[–] gst0ck@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microgrowery needs some help.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I posted a thread yesterday on !newcommunities@lemmy.world with manual hobbies communities, including cannabis. Maybe it's worth considering merging !microgrowery@lemmy.ml with one of those?