Help reviving the Bistitchual community? For all textiles/needlecrafts/etc
Help reviving the Bistitchual community? For all textiles/needlecrafts/etc
It's my own community but I've definitely semi-abandoned it... There's a new post from today, but the last one before that was 5 months ago. Every post is from me lol. I could use some help from another textiles person to help grow it and keep it going.
The thing that always made that OLD site valuable to me was the niche knowledge. If only like 5 people in the whole world knew how to do some specific thing in your incredibly rare hobby/job/craft/etc, those 5 people were on the sub devoted to it and probably already had the answer posted. That's what I wanted to see more of here, and the topic where I can contribute to that just happens to be obscure textiles. We have a ton of niche textile RSS sources tracked in our Fediverser profile too.
Just hit me up if you want to be added as a mod! Thank you so much in advance!!
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Have you tried promoting the community on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world ?
I did once when it was new, maybe it would've been better to wait till it had more content?
It seems like you are lacking content because you are the only one posting.
I just had a quick look, there is !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works who has more regular activity, would it be maybe easier to contribute there, and lock !bistitchual@piefed.social for the moment?
Lemmy_stitch is only for cross-stitch and embroidery. As far as I know, there isn't another community for ALL forms of needlecraft. There are communities for, say, knitting and crochet, but not for like nalbinding and sprang weaving. Unfortunately, some needlecrafts are way too obscure to have their own dedicated community and survive. For example, just one of the popular knitting subreddits has 100 times the users of the only nalbinding subreddit. Translating that to Lemmy numbers, it could never make it here alone. If I had found another community for all needlecrafts, I definitely wouldn't have started c/bistitchual... Maybe it's just a bad name, too, should've been something more obvious.
Would nalbinding and sprang weaving be unwelcome on !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works ? The name itself seems quite generic. I had a quick look earlier, the mods seem to have gone missing, so you might even request it to the SJW admins.