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I commiserate with you on this. I miss my crochet and knitting communities from reddit, but I did make the severance anyway. I also don't use my Facebook account at all, so I don't have an online fiber arts community anywhere.
I belong to a small social knitting group, but I'm the most advanced knitter there, so I don't feel like I have any outlets for finding and appreciating master knitters other than YouTube. But I only turn to YouTube for tutorials/entertainment, not for a sense of community.
https://kbin.social/m/knitting Enjoy
@HandsHurtLoL (lmfao at the fitting username)
I'm sure neither of you will mind if I plug crochet@lemmy.ca here as well. It seems they're finally beginning to work out their federating problems again and I've only not posted yet because I haven't quite finished my projects yet. Like you, I'm sorely missing it, but that's just gonna make me contribute all I can
I love that you get the reference in my username LOL
I am subbed to all the crochet magazines/communities that are federated with kbin, but now that I've replied to someone else it dawns on me that the real issue is that those communities participate via the microblog and not via threads. This is probably a major reason why I'm not seeing those communities as active.
I wonder if there isn't a way to get microblog content to appear on my front page along with new threads.
I am subbed to this already. This community almost exclusively participates via microblog, not threads, so none of their content comes to my front page. I can't change that that community operates that way. I don't care (yet) for the microblog portion of the Fediverse.
I'm subbed to every knitting community federated with kbin.
If it's showing up on the microblog, it's probably Mastodon posts showing up there with the #knitting - and the moderator has set the magazine to automatically pull them in. Not much you can do - other than pump-priming thinsg by posting some interesting content/questions. I guess.
Yeah this is my understanding of it: the knitting magazines I've found so far are just all Mastadon-related.
I don't care for the format of Twitter, so I don't see myself taking to Mastadon too well.
There are at least three communities for crochet between Lemmy and Kbin. I didn't check knitting but would be surprised if it doesn't exist soon =)
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/122599/While-larger-more-general-communities-are-thriving-on-the-Fediverse#entry-comment-479872
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/122599/While-larger-more-general-communities-are-thriving-on-the-Fediverse#entry-comment-479569
I hope those comment links work. They suggest creating your own niche magazine, nurturing it through the early stages, then handing over mod duties to others who might be more comfortable in the role.
I saw that someone did that here with my favorite sub. I made a post just to show that there is interest in the topic and to hopefully invite more engagement.
Because I'm primarily a mobile user with a non-tech 9-to-5 job, I feel totally ill equipped to follow through with this, but I do hope more people feel empowered to go this route!