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How are you doing with your communities? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm starting to get a feel of what works (=gets popular) and what doesn't in [email protected], but haven't curated what I'm posting yet. Still working on the megathread that will (hopefully) list all the art communities on Lemmy

[email protected] is single handedly being carried by OP 😂 btw @[email protected] if you're interested in being mod in there I'll appoint you

[email protected] will maybe return for the end of the year, or maybe remain on standby for Lemmyvision 2

Not my communities but every now and then I try posting in [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] to help them get more exposure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

[email protected] is single handedly being carried by OP 😂 btw @[email protected] if you’re interested in being mod in there I’ll appoint you

Thanks for offering, but I'm good thanks 😄 also I only follow LoL, so I guess until next tournament I won't post much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I wish there was a wiki here, or a better way to keep "long running" information. I can pin posts, but that's not always the best, and it feels like "This post is more important than everything else". Maybe I should spin one up sometime

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Linked posts in the sidebar kind of works. Embedded wiki would be great indeed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Keeping [email protected] alive

Trying to help [email protected] to get more activity. There was [email protected] started a few days ago. I suggested the mod to join patientgamers, they were not convinced. Let's see how it goes.

[email protected] got a nice boost with a post too, that seems a community that can be easy to grow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Trying to make [email protected] a thing, but so far allbymyself.gif. Was sort of looking to have it as a sysadminy discussion thing, but lemmy is too small for it, yet, so it's just a bunch of links to The Register, Drew DeVault and a couple others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The name might not directly say what this is about, which might limit the chances of someone stumbling upon it. Maybe [email protected] would make it more clear?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe, but then I'm not aiming for generic sysadmin. I was hoping to get true graybeards to share their experience(s). It'll get there, I think, but it will take a lot more than just a few tens of thousands of users to get enough people from the crowd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Good luck, seriously.

As a beard (long past the pfy stage, still have a ways to go till gray status) I understand the desire to avoid the type of basic shit that seems to show up in sysadmin communities now. Way too much "I'm the only IT guy so they gave me a fancy title, but I'm doing Tier 2 helpdesk work at best" flying around in the admin spaces lately. The non admin spaces are even worse, with regular "sky is falling" articles about Windows features that are disable-able with a single click in a top level settings menu.

That said, if the space gets popular, it's going to attract all types, including the newbies with inflated egos. Kind of a catch 22. You need it to be popular to attract any users, but you're trying to cater to a specific subset.

I'd start with filling out the community description/sidebar, myself. Beyond that, you've got a new subscriber here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Then maybe try to promote it on [email protected] and [email protected] ? That can help

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I might have to. Feels weird advertising it, though. Maybe it's just all in my head

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

It's really okay with how difficult community discoverability is