• hitstun@fedia.io
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    15 days ago

    Honestly, my favorite part of running a community is when a new face joins and posts something they like. It doesn’t matter if their posts don’t look like mine. Other people’s posts make me feel like I’m not just posting into the void.

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Yay for lemmy contributors. I love finding new things to post in the few communities I frequent, it’s fun for me, believe it or not. But it’s also great to see others get a kick from the same things.

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Yeah, it’s a good feeling.

    I was keeping !noyank@lemmy.ml going for months, now I just check in every so often, and there’s starting to be conversations there, and it’s almost at 300. It’s not the most active community in the 'verse, but it is active. Cheers to Emperor and velox vulnus for contributing

    • Blaze@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Nice community, I remember seeing it a while back. Good to make the exercise to remember how prevalent US culture can be in other countries.

    • hitstun@fedia.io
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      15 days ago

      As a Yank myself, I actually appreciate that community. Lemmy and Mbin have worldly, logical arguments that wouldn’t get far on an American social media echo chamber. If the rest of the world doesn’t make themselves heard loud and clear, civilization will collapse.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
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      4 days ago

      No worries - I try and pick up on media that doesn’t come from the US as it keeps things interesting (even if the most engagement comes from American blockbusters), so happy to cross-post there too.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
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    15 days ago

    It definitely feels like the community has gained some kind of traction.

    Also is Catbox working for you? I’ve not been able to access it for weeks.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I tried to keep a few communities that I made going, but I’ve burned out on my hobby and haven’t found anything else worth posting. It can definitely be draining.

  • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’ve basically lost all interest in keeping my communities alive at this point. I tried posting daily myself, I encouraged others to join in, I had bots pulling content from reddit to have any activity there, people grew discontent but didn’t post themselves. Basically back to square one and don’t feel like starting out again. Guess I’m good without them

    • Blaze@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      14 days ago

      That’s fine, your niches were probably too small for the current lemmy population.
      Souls-like fans will probably have to go to more generalist video game communities

      • Firestorm Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        14 days ago

        I checked out a couple of your posts on reddit where you also mention that we had an active community of around 70k people across the entirety of Lemmy. I was under the impression that we’re a lot more. In light of that, it makes sense they didn’t pop off more. Shittydarksouls seems general enough to gather enough people