To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
Still busy with growing [email protected], hopefully we are getting closer to getting other regular posters
[email protected] is getting some nice content, cool to see other people creating Fediverse memes
Otherwise, still happy with the growth of the others:
Wondering about whether I should find somewhere else to host my images before I post them, especially since I post to/mod [email protected], on the biggest instance. I do crop them down to just the relevant bit and compress them before posting.
Also wondering whether to move off lemmy.world or if it'll die of low activity: most of our posts are from the same few people (thankfully I am not the only poster!), and [email protected] fulfills the same niche. I want to preserve the fact that there are two active bunny communities. I love the Bun Alert System, if you check our sidebars we both reference each other, but I also like the idea that if one of our instances dies, if the other community goes inactive, there is still a second bunny place to go to. So I do not want [email protected] to just die and have its users absorbed by the Bun Alert System.
I do like the idea of the old mod I replaced because they went MIA being able to come back, find this, and post/mod again, which is a small point towards not leaving lemmy.world, but ever since I got my feet wet at kbin.social and learned what was going on I've decided that I'd rather support smaller instances. I am only on lemmy.world because turns out you cannot see reports if you mod from an account from a different instance (at least, that is how it was when I first took over. You can literally see me trying to mod with accounts from smaller instances, finding it didn't work, and stopping via the modlogs of some Elevator7009 being added, and leaving haha).
Catbox.moe is nice to host images
They have a plugin which can be used to upload images with a click
if one of our instances dies, if the other community goes inactive, there is still a second bunny place to go to.
If one of your instance dies, you can probably post to [email protected] and point the people to the new community. Or use a LW, lemm.ee, SJW etc account to create posts on the old community to point to the new communitiy (those posts would work, but only be visible to local users, hence why I mentioned several alts)
You can also post now about a back up community (and add it to the sidebar) so that people are subscribed to it in case you need to switch to it.
Just to say there are ways to deal with instances dying.
Hm. I probably should make a backup community. Have to figure out which instance I'd put it on. Thanks for the catbox.moe rec, I'll look into it.
Still like the idea of community redundancy though, more choice, and if I ever go crazy and become power-mad (let us hope not), or if I just make some important community decision people don't like, people can up and leave and still have a bunny place without too much friction. At the moment both [email protected] and [email protected] are pleasant places and I hope it stays that way.
Nice community! I have never heard about world being not ok with hosting the images, it's very convenient i think. I also made some donations so i don't feel bad at all about hosting my images here. I like lemmy.world, but i guess i'm in the minority here, it often seems more like a "get off .world and .ml" community than about growth of the lemmyverse.
To me it's topic and community first, instance i don't care much, it's federated anyway.
Thank you!
It is convenient, but I do want to help take the load off. It is the biggest Lemmy instance and I want to grow smaller instances. I mostly feel bad about being on .world because it's the biggest instance and I want to make the Fediverse diverse instead of all centralized on one giant.
Worth noting I don't personally notice anything bad with .world or .ml, but I know part of me being able to say that is because I keep off Local/All on any general-purpose instance and stick to my subs.