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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We've reached 413 members in [email protected]. We also have more participation going on in the Weekly Threads I recently initiated (Issue 6 is ready to go out, tomorrow). If it is still on the timid side, I still find it very promising and encouraging ;)

Today more then ever, I think people should give journaling a chance. When things are getting stressful, this can help a lot. Be it to take a few steps back and consider things more calmly, or even just to put down emotions and feelings and try to deal with them. I hope our little community can encourage a few persons to start doing so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

[email protected] has been seeing very steady growth, having nearly reached 400 subs!

[email protected] has also seen steady growth and quite active community participation. Overall the move to .cafe has worked out wonderfully, and it's proven itself to be a reliable instance :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quite impressed with [email protected]

Still a shame that [email protected] don't want to consider consolidating, as the two are literally the same community (buyfromEU allows discussion about "neighboring friendly countries")

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I must say I was impressed too.

I don't mind the two communities. Sure, it will be simpler to have a single one but I'm subscribed to both and that's ok.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The main issue I see is people coming from Reddit, finding the .org one and not seeing the .UK one, which is much more active

I was trying to mitigate this by mentioning it to new users, but the mods banned me for this: https://feddit.org/modlog/242334

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

That’s PTB move. They literally made a vote asking what the community wants and you got banned for advocating for one side of the vote lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if only there were a community where you could complain about this

edit i see you mentioned my rival community already please disregard

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well, that's quite a knee-jerk reaction on their part, frankly stupid too: aren't we supposed to be a federated network instead of acting like a mini-reddit that wants to own everything? :/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, that's how I perceive it as well. I might document this on [email protected] if I have some time

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

Imho, it's worth a least showcasing as a surprising decision and, imho, a questionable one too. Calmly discussing it in order to see what others think about it.

I don't like that you were banned for mentioning another community. And I don't like that only because I'm being polite here ;)

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but the mods banned me for this

Okay, that's not a good look for them. [email protected] has my full support now. Have you tried reaching out to the admins of feddit.org?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just posted on [email protected]

I raised the issue in the feddit.org channel, admins see to have seen it, but didn't seem to want to take action.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Very pleased with the growth of our communities since the move to crazypeople.online almost 2 weeks ago.

[email protected] is leading the way with just over 100 subscribers again. All kinds of new people have been posting music and leaving comments, it's great to see.

[email protected] isn't far behind with just under 100 subscribers. Lazy stoners, come on already! 💚

[email protected] has also been active since the move. With a little over 60 subscribers we're seeing active posting and trading which is awesome! I'm hopeful the community will continue to grow as more people become hopelessly addicted to this game.

[email protected] is seeing similar subscriber numbers. We were fortunate to have @[email protected] lead us off with some bangers to get things started. Awesome to see community members take the lead when a new place needs some love!

[email protected] hasn't seen much activity but it also didn't see much at it's old home either. For now it's mostly my space to post random racing videos I find on YouTube lol. More people are definitely invited though!

And on a more generic note the instance as a whole has been doing well. Some new members added and no stability issues, good times. Hopefully everyone is doing well with their projects.

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

Good stuff!

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

Is the Pokemon TCGM one also for physical card collectors? (Sorry if I've misunderstood something and/or this question doesn't make sense, I'm still kinda new to the hobby)

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

It's mainly intended to be about the Pocket edition of the TCG which is a mobile game. Some crossovers are fine with me as long as the bulk of the posting is related to the mobile game in some way. I don't play the physical game so I didn't plan for it to be part of that community. There's bound to be others interested in that too.

There are lots of Pokemon communities on Lemmy though. A look on lemmyverse shows several for the physical card game, maybe they're active?

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=pokemon

If none of them are what you're looking for you could always spin up your own as well.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[email protected] got a lot of interest, but the higher barrier to entry means I'm still the only one posting. Edit: We have a new poster!

I did just promote it at [email protected], which should help a bit.

[email protected] by contrast already has a few other people posting, and I'm happy with how it's growing so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The haiku community is nice, first time I hear about it. Have you promoted it on [email protected] ?

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

Just posted there 6 hours ago, hopefully that picks up steam

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

URGENT on [email protected] the frequent poster @[email protected] has to take some time out for personal reasons and is asking other people to take over... I don't have any content to post there so I can't help out. But anyone with an interest in that topic who has some excerpts/reviews/info they want to post, I invite them to do so.

In other news.... [email protected] is showing a bit of life... a couple different people have been posting each week, starting about a month ago. Not sure what that's about.

On [email protected] I started doing a weekly post about the Mastodon weekly view parties. Then when I go to the view parties (which are a lot of fun!) I post a link to the lemmy post. That way I advertise each to each:

Finally, I've had some success advertising niche communities by posting spoiler-tagged lists of communities to new people when they ask for direction. Here's what I'm talking about, I welcome you to do something similar:

click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.

Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked)

GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS

ART / PHOTOS

ANIMALS

COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS

ENTERTAINMENT

GENRES / STYLES

HISTORY

INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE

OTHER

FEDIVERSE

FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY

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

[email protected] is being actively suppressed but its still slowly growing despite the deepstates best efforts its up to 175 subscribers now