I love the “cassette-futurism” aesthetic / niche, but hadn’t really thought about it for some time, until I hit up our FV community just now, and submitted a little article about an item I found, yesterday.
Problem? I happened to notice that in that /c, the prior posts dated to 2mos ago, and that currently, the place is effectively dormant, if not outright dead. This to me is a right-old shame, given that 200+ posts had been made there already, meaning to me that a sincere & sustained effort had been made to launch it and keep it going for a quite a while, until… well. Whatever happened.
Just in general, though-- I would think that anyone who’s been a part of the Fediverse for a while has noticed the heavy trend of communities being created all the time, with most of them crashing and burning relatively shortly thereafter. Or others, persisting for a while, until the creators or contributors dried up at some point.
Still, at the end of the day, the FV is full of dead communities that succumbed for one reason or another, and that’s unfortunately just sort of… natural, right? That said, I do not like it when it happens to concepts and communities that I love and support!
So what’s my point, here?
Er… well… I was thinking that maybe as a group-effort, some of us might-potentially rotate our posts a bit between communities that we wanted to support, to help keep them going?
Obviously that would need to be cross-organised in terms of groups of people and groups of communities, but I’m wondering if maybe that might help in such situations? For example, let’s say that every week I create 1-3 posts for a rotating schedule of critical communities I appreciate, so to speak. And others in the sign-up list do the same, see? In which case we together help keep those communities going on until they potentially ‘catch fire’ in a larger, self-sustaining sense, so to speak. Or something like that?
Not sure if all that makes sense, but… there it is.
@scirocco@lemmy.world, @blaze@piefed.zip, @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
Yeah, sorry on not doing a better job of moderating that community. I recently realized that this user isn’t a mod on that community and I haven’t been getting reports. I did some cleanup though, and user reporting will help a lot, since I still feel less ownership of it, which means I’m less likely to proactively take something down.
I appreciate your efforts! In any case, it’s beyond clear to me that one or two new mods are needed at OOCC, with Flying Squid gone and the other listed mod no longer using that account (“Tachyon Tele” I think). EDIT: Oh actually, I think they just need their current account swapped for their old one in the mod list, if that’s something you can do.
Any opinion on what would be some good ways to advertise for new mod volunteers for dead-ish or modless communities? Some posts at the ‘new community’ places, maybe? A ‘meta’ post at their respective instances…?
Usually, creating a thread on the community can help to find volunteers.
After first checking with the admins of that community’s instance, right? The awkward part for me would be doing so as a person almost entirely unconnected to the place in question, i.e. no ‘authority’ to speak of.
Indeed, it can be a bit awkward, but the vast majority of the time admins will be okay to give you admin rights if the community is abandoned.
Actually, if they don’t, that seems to be kind of a red flag.