I was so happy with the community at !superbowl@lemmy.world this week!
We got posts from 5 other people this week, which I think is a record, and they were really good, and some were non-US as well.
I've passed 5000 comments, the majority of which have been within the community, and I'm over 900 posts. I've been able to maintain 3 posts a day for a while now.
Been seeing a number of new commenters as well and got another DM thank you from someone for posting happy stuff for them every day.
I've been depressed and now sick recently, so the community has been a very positive element in my life, so I'm glad everyone is still enjoying what I do.
Reading other communities, I feel people have been getting a little touchier and crude in some of their language, so I feel it is important to keep positive spaces here.
The owls in my feed never fail to lighten up my day!
I hope you're doing better, and I'm happy to hear that the community is bringing something positive to you as well! There's at least no doubt there's a lot of us who appreciate the effort. :)
Yes, my actual medical depression is still properly treated, it's just a combo of job dissatisfaction and my girlfriend has started work after finishing college, and she works 3x 12 hr days Sat-Mon so my schedule is out of whack and I've trashed my already poor sleep hygiene trying to find a new routine. Doing my daily posts is the only thing occuring at "the proper time" anymore, so it at least syncs me up at the start of each day, and the happy comments throughout the day give me things to look forward to.
I caught the killer head cold she's been having for the last week as well, and it seems my body decided to speedrun it and I hardly left the bed over the weekend.
Everyone is always so supportive in the community, I'm always so glad I decided that if nobody else was going to make it active that it was up to me. I spend a lot of time on it, but I feel it is productive and the positive feedback I get makes the work feel more useful than any actual job I've had.
Pretty happy with !noyank@lemmy.ml it is on its way to 300 people and has several active subscribers. If a discussion-type thread is started (rather than a recommendation thread) it does get discussion going.
Not what I was expecting, but I like it! 😆
Didn't about this community, nice concept
Very happy with !football@lemmy.world and the matches thread now, thank you @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev
Just glad it's making a positive impact, can't ask for more as a programmer :)
I'd like to see a sports specific instance (just something like lemmy.sport) so we could have all the sport communities on one instance, rather than all over the place, and also avoid the weird politics and who's (not) federated with who issues.
That has been exactly my reasoning when I created the topic specific instances, and I have been trying to convince @blaze@feddit.org to get out of LW and into !talk@soccer.forum
Regarding a "general" sports instance, I have setup https://athletic.center/ some long ago, but never got to create communities for it. I was thinking of using it for less sports that are less "professional" and more suitable for hobby practitioners (e.g, sailing, skiing, diving, swimming, CrossFit, etc) the main reason, to be totally honest, is that sport.* are quite expensive.
!midriffmoe@ani.social just hit 1000 tummy enjoyers! Wooo!
Also !moomin@sopuli.xyz is a huge success. Regular commenters. Hit a hundred subs in just a few days. Now increasing more slowly but steadily.
Congrats !
Now increasing more slowly but steadily.
You've just got one more!
Nice growth for !showsandmovies@lemm.ee , we'll probably surpass !television@lemmy.world soon
Edit: actually, we already did
I'm not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.
Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I'll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don't know.
I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of 'BD' and the little tidbits I write up, there's not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN's, and who also want to spend time posting.
This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they've been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.
I guess European graphic novels might be popular in French (sometimes you see some on !forumlibre@jlai.lu ) but in English it's definitely more niche
Aside from personally posting more regularly there, any advice or ideas for getting !likethismaylike@lemm.ee going? Had a few people early on posting and even some people beside myself replying to them, but it rapidly trailed off from there and felt a little too much like I was only using it for myself.
Started to make other types of post to help show it's as much for sharing as asking, but while the posts had some passive positive attention, it didn't net much more activity.
Feel free to post it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, that usually gives communities a boost
