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
The vast majority of newly promoted communities on !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca already exist, but people want to create their own for whatever reason. It can get tiring as a witness.
Piefed has comments consolidation for cross posts which really helps. Unfortunately the Lemmy devs are against the idea.
I am sure we could send some tanks to convince them. I heard they love tanks.
Blaze (he/him) Comment consolidation really isn’t a solution, and is an amazingly short-sighted fix. It works to prevent the establishment of local community or server cultures, and presumes the end-point of the fediverse is a more complicated, less well funded version of centralized media. That the “fediverse” is out there, and that any particular website is just an empty vessel to access it.
This actively works against everything we need to actually create a space that appeals to people who aren’t here already. It cuts us off aat the knees before we’ve even stood up.
Like, imagine merging politics on Midwest.social and politics on lemmy.ca…
From a user perspective, I really enjoy being able to see all the comments on a post on
As a community builder, I also find it nice that wherever a link is posted, users will be able to see the comments. It feels less like communities are competing against each other.
The top issue potential new joiners raise is content and comment fragmentation.
Politics obviously should stay separated, but that’s the minority case compared to the vast majority of clone communities.