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A few communities possibly worth tending (self.fedigrow)
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Slightly surprised to find the Adulting, Career Guidance, and Jobs communities haven't gained too much traction, or in one case stalled out. Although these communities aren't the most exciting or uplifting, so it also makes sense.

I'm talking about the following on Lemmy World specifically:

Given the second community never went anywhere, it's probably best to instead focus on Jobs if anyone was interested. Unfortunately in the case of both the Jobs and Adulting community, the moderators no longer seem to be active to coordinate with to help the communities along.

In looking about the only similar communities I could find to these were on other instances one might also consider too large or controversial, if not both (e.g. Lemmy ml and Lemmygrad). Given their lack of activity, if there was enough interest they might be rebuilt on other instances with more effort to get them going. However, seeing as that already seems to be something of an uphill struggle, revitalizing what's here might be preferable.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

To be completely honest, I simply do not want to contribute to anything that is on lemmy.world. Nothing against them, but I do not want to further increase the network dependence on any single instance.

If these communities were created on a smaller instance or (better yet) a topic-specific server, I'd gladly find a way to contribute and bootstrap them.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As noted, seeing as they're neither consistently active nor terribly large (Adulting is the largest of the two with any posts), building them on other instances now would probably be just as well. They're decent enough topics to try to build communities around imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Indeed. Do you have any instance in mind to host them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Same here

[–] Lost_My_Mind 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been saying since I got here that topic specific instances are the way to go with this concept. I'm hosted on Lemmy.World, but if I were to seperate posts by local, it wouldn't do much. I'd just see a bunch of random community posts.

But if I were on Lemmy.Sports, and seperated by local, I'd see a bunch of sports stuff. Then I could go to Lemmy.Videogames and see a bunch of video games stuff.

Then I could go to Lemmy.Photography, and see a bunch of communities about photography.

Then you could have these all-in-one instances like Lemmy.World, where you have communites that don't make sense to be on a dedicated instance. Niche topics, that the community itself is all that's needed.

And make it so you can go to other instances home pages, and sort by local, while still logged in. That would help too.