• Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    Wondering if an option to opt a community out of downvotes outside subscribers would be a good idea.

    I remember being on Mbin and seeing some poor baseball community I was browsing with things that looked to be factual and from credible sources having about 3 upvotes and downvotes to most posts, making it look like the content was fake or low-quality. I’m wondering how many of those votes were actual subscribed people (or people interested in lurking), and how many were just trolls downvoting anything they could—which happened to congregate in on a tiny community with not too many supporters to shout out the troll voices (like when a post has 50 upvotes and 1 downvote and zero negativity in the comments—you can probably guess the downvote is not for “off topic” or “low quality” or “spam” or “cruel,” just a troll being a troll).

    I do think the outside world’s input is still valuable, but I do want to be able to protect small communities from having this happen to them, where every post looks like a shit contribution if you just check the votes even if the posts are good, because random people who downvote a topic because they just don’t like that topic instead of blocking it from their feed or scrolling past, or actual trolls, got to it and there are not enough subscribers to drown the noise out.

    Posting because I think some small communities I’m in have total outsiders downvoting posts to the point it outweighs subscriber upvotes: they are usually totally inoffensive, have no misinformation, and are on-topic for the community and on par with the usual effort it takes to make posts in that community, and yet almost even in upvotes/downvotes.

  • falseprophet@fedia.io
    2·
    4 days ago

    !Bside@fedia.io an community for alternative gaming is slowly growing at the moment there are 79 subscribers. so far from the 35 post only one is not mine. I get some occasional comments which is nice.

    I a pinned thread with a collection of news in a form of a zine somewhat similar to what user PerfectDark does from the steamdeck and games communities. It includes a poll asking if game mods and romhacks should be part of the community and so far I have only 3 votes.

    • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I think part of the issue is that it would be nice to contribute but I’m not always super aware of smaller games that could fit the community.

  • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    crazypeople.online has seen slow but steady local growth as well as growth within the communities we host. We have a few regulars in most communities now and new people engaging with the content more regularly. Here’s the rundown:

    Gained ~20 Subscribers
    Gained ~15 Subscribers
    Stagnant Growth

    A BIG THANKS to everyone across the fediverse who participates in our communities. I don’t want to tag the same few people every week but you’re all awesome for helping turn an empty space into communities with a pulse. 🙏

    We try to offer some low stress retreats from some of the more headline dominated communities. If you haven’t checked us out you definitely should, you might find your new favorite hang out.

    • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Hey frosty trichs wanted to let you know ive been keeping tabs on your instance love the weedtime community and see you over on trees all the time. I might consider joining sometime :)

      • FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Hey frosty trichs wanted to let you know ive been keeping tabs on your instance love the weedtime community and see you over on trees all the time.

        I’ve been following the changes to !vaporents@lemmy.world recently. Congrats on your recent mod appointment. It’s nice to see the activity picking up over there. Once upon a time I was very active on that subreddit so it’s nice to see it getting some love here. You’re welcome to crosspost to weedtime if you’d like. We probably have a lot of subscriber overlap but it doesn’t hurt to share.

        I might consider joining sometime :)

        Any time mate. It took a lot of work to get our instance to play nicely with l.w because of their size so it wouldn’t hurt my feelings at all to see some of that traffic migrate here lol.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    The various spaceflight communities I’ve been growing (!spacex@sh.itjust.works, !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, !spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works, !rocketlab@lemmy.nz) are chugging along nicely, aided by some posts by @llamacoffee@lemmy.world and @jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

    I’ve been able to be a bit more hands-off with !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net and !teslamotors@lemmy.zip, thanks to @Sunshine@lemmy.ca, @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al, @schizoidman@lemm.ee, and @BrikoX@lemmy.zip. I’ve started crossposting some posts to !byd@lemmy.world, !geely@lemmy.world, !rivian@lemmy.zip, and !xiaomi@lemdro.id to build them up a bit.

    Attempted consolidation of corvid communities to !corvids@sopuli.xyz went… poorly, but hey, you win some, you lose some.

    !cubers@lemmy.world had a few posts in the past week, which was nice.

    I’m still feeding !nosafetysmokingfirst@sh.itjust.works with Reddit content, but a couple weeks ago someone other than me posted one!

    Memes on !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social seem to be getting quite a bit of traction, though the inactivity of the single admin on that instance is a bit worrying in the long-term… might be soon time to consider relocating.

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    !neat@lemmy.world I made it to post random stuff I couldn’t elsewhere. On rare occasions others post. Satisfied with that tbh since its not like I have a karma score or whatev

  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    !metaldetecting@lemmy.world is off to a great start with over 60 sub’s, I hope someone else whos into detecting on Lemmy will eventually post occasionally too. For now its just me digging holes in my back yard a few times a week.

    I recently took over !localllama@sh.itjust.works the mods were inactive for years and the pinned post were outdated which started to bug me after months.

    I didn’t like the description was just “were a replacement for the reddit r/localllama community” with same thumbnail and everything. Fuck reddit, our communities aren’t cheap copycats nor should we treat them that way. So I rewrote the description and helped make some new community artwork. People seem to like the new changes which I’m happy about I spent hours editing and colorizing that stupid purple llama picture.

    I also recently became mod of !vaporents@lemmy.world and gave it a similar glowup with new art rewritten description and unpinned years old inactive post.

    I’m not super big into number tracking except for metaldetecting since thats truly my baby. I hope the communities I look after continue to grow at the speed they were meant to.

  • darakan@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    !animation@lemm.ee is doing pretty well. We’re close to a thousand subscribers. One thing I’ve noticed is that even on the occasional days where there are no new posts, we’re consistently getting new subscribers. I’m guessing it’s a testament to the staying power of certain posts and also the fact that the community is pretty high up in various animation/anime/cartoon related directories.

    It’s something that’s made me more comfortable with going a day or even multiple days without a new post whereas in the past I would desperately search for anything remotely relevant to post and sometimes find myself a little burnt out because of that. Now, not only are there a decent number of other regular posters but I don’t really freak out too much if I can’t find anything compelling and relevant to post.