What are some communities you’ve subscribed to, even though there are only a handful of posts, hoping that it will one day be active?

    • C3ltic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I recently ran into the problem where I signed up on a different federation or whatever and had to jump through a few hoops to get subscribed to the community I wanted.

      I get that that’s part of the allure of Lemmy but it’s also a stumbling block. I can’t just go to any community and sign up at the click of a button. Hopefully there’s a workaround for this soon or I imagine a lot of lazy users like myself will just look elsewehere.

      • themeltingclock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        The apps I’ve tried thus far on iOS make this process much easier than the web clients. I think with a little refinement, most users could have a “reddit-esque” experience without fully knowing how the federation works under the hood.

      • DoctorTYVM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I hate it when the community I want to join is spread across like five different instances with varying levels of activity and user count. Wish we could just Pick one and make it The One community.

        • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I understand the desire for that, but tbh I’d be just as happy with something like Reddit’s multi-reddits to round up multiple similar communities in one feed. I appreciate the subtle differences that communities around the same topic can have simply by slight variations in their focuses.

    • bibbleskit@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Me too!

      But this was your chance to list some of the lesser known ones that you, in particular, are interested in.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’m in the middle of linking up all the various crafty communities with a central list, because if you’re a crafter you’re probably interested in more than one of them. So, all of those?

    Here’s the list as posted in the leathercrafting community (which you should also check out), we’ve got loads of stuff from crochet to dicemaking. Crafters, assemble!

    https://lemmy.world/post/394324

  • seacocker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I wish there was more active participation. I mod one small community with 36 subscribers and only my posts.

    • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Remember the old ~90% lurker / ~9% commenter / ~1% poster ratio. Most communities here haven’t yet reached a size where you see a variety of active contributors yet.

      I moderate two communities that have now reached >200 subscribers and we’re only just seeing people other than mods actively posting stuff.

    • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Old photos in real life? That’s a good idea for a community. I went to check it out hoping I’d have something to contribute but unfortunately I don’t. One day it will be a lot more active though, I believe it. Just the good ol’ ratio of lurkers to active users.

      I feel your pain at comedy heaven. One day lol

  • Tugg@lemmyverse.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I wish my local city’s community had more people, but I’m afraid they’ll never move over. Oh well, i created it anyway.

    I’ve also created a few others that will get buried.

  • subspaceinterferents@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    My hometown community (San Diego). I feel like a bushy-tailed fool, only one doing any posting on Lemmy. But I’m done with R., so off I go…

      • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        ! Is just a way to refer to communities, and @ to users. If you type ! or @ and some characters, you’ll get autofilled results.

        So, it is health.

  • Grant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I wish the Super Smash Bros Lemmy was more active. I wanted to message the owner to offer to mod because Sunspider helps with Lemmy.world and has their hands full probably but can’t figure out how to do that on Jerboa.

    SSB is one of the first video games I ever played and I’ve been active for over 20 years in this series. The Nintendo Switch does not make it easy to pull my files so it’s a little harder to save and post clips unlike BotW or other games

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m not familiar with Jerboa (I’m still kinda waiting on mobile apps to develop more), but you may try messaging them by logging in via browser instead.

      From there you should be able to navigate to the community, tap the sidebar button, scroll a little to see their name at the bottom, tap it & see their profile & an option to message them.

  • owatnext@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Me and my co-mod are trying to get !bluey@lemmy.world going. We get a few posters, but it’s mostly just us for now. But we hold out hope! I imagine it will catch on more eventually.