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The post on !simracing@lemmy.ml got a few comments: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18211534
The mod hasn't said anything, I'm not sure they are even active on Lemmy anymore.
What do you think we should do?
This is a problem I see all over Lemmy. I'll find communities and think "Oh cool!" but then notice the last post is from a year ago. Then I'll notice they have like 24 subscribers. Then I'll notice they only have one mod who hasn't posted ANYTHING ANYWHERE in 1 year.
So I give up on that community, despite being interested in the content. With that said, I'm NOT interested in sim racing. Unless this is somehow a community about the Maxis game The Sims, from 24 years ago, and someone made a way for them to go racing. THAT would be awesome.
Then I'll notice they only have one mod who hasn't posted ANYTHING ANYWHERE in 1 year.
So I give up on that community, despite being interested in the content.
Not sure why that is a reason to give up. Most admins are happy to swap out AWOL mods for active ones. It wouldn't hurt to shoot them a message and ask.
We have mechanisms for transferring sub ownership, so once the community is made, any individual can bring it back to life with some effort. It's really just a population thing though, we're not quite big enough to support really niche interests yet.
It's also a small issue of people thinking that other people will grow their communities for them, in a sort of "if you build it, they will come" mentality. This is false 99% of the time, and only works if you're arriving at just the right time to spin up a community that there is a huge amount of demand for. Almost all communities are built off of months of regular, dedicated posting by a single individual though, which is usually the creator.
Anyways though, this'll resolve in time if the service continues to grow over the years.
This is false 99% of the time, and only works if you’re arriving at just the right time to spin up a community that there is a huge amount of demand for. Almost all communities are built off of months of regular, dedicated posting by a single individual though, which is usually the creator.
Very true
That's the issue we are trying to solve here.
I remember you were interesting in model trains, correct? !modelmakers@lemmy.ml could be interesting to you
I honestly don't know. The whole instance politics discussion is too complicated to comprehend.
Based on the 200 comments on that thread (https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/23836769) there seems to be quite a few people who block or do not participate on lemmy.ml communities
Moving the community elsewhere seems like an opportunity.
Hopefully that's more clear.