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Active communities promotion thread (reddthat.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Hello,

As everybody knows, content discovery on Lemmy can sometimes be a bit tricky.

To help smaller communities to get more activity, I launch this thread for people to promote the communities they are active one.

One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

This could be a weekly thread, but let's see how it goes

Finally, !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities

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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

!wavemusic@lemmy.world - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I'll post something later today.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

!fedigrow@lemm.ee - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @Blaze@reddthat.com has been posting a weekly thread on "how is your [niche] community doing?" which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, !shortstories@literature.cafe - links to short stories online in all genres

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

Interesting list, thanks!

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think the rest of my communities haven't seen activity lately, so I'll have to post in them first!

[-] Gamers_Mate@kbin.run 15 points 4 months ago

I did not expect !beds to be about Bedfordshire. I assumed it was furniture related.

[-] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

I was going to put Bedfordshire in brackets next to that, but I forgot. I knew it could cause confusion!

[-] Gamers_Mate@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago

Its okay nothing to lose sleep over.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For those situations where all you can say is wtf?!:

!wtf@lemmy.wtf

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Didn't know about this one, thanks!

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[-] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 12 points 4 months ago

More animal communities:

!bats@lemmy.world

!superbowl@lemmy.world (yes this is an animal community)

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Some casual history promotion

!RoughRomanMemes@kbin.social

!HistoryMemes@kbin.social

!HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social

!HistoryDrawings@kbin.social

!HistoryRuins@kbin.social

!historyporn@lemmy.world

[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 15 points 4 months ago

kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don't think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago

HistoryMemes@kbin.social

Very good point. I just had a look at https://lemm.ee/c/HistoryMemes@kbin.social, and despite having 34 local subscribers (visible in the sidebar), the newest post are from 2 months ago.

@PugJesus@lemmy.world, you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

[-] MrKaplan@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

@PugJesus@lemmy.world, you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

this is unfortunately correct for the time being.

while we still have aggressive rate limits in place to limit federation impact from kbin bugs, which started with the measures that @sunaurus@lemm.ee mentioned, this wouldn't impact activities coming from lemmy.world towards kbin.social.

while kbin.social used to break down every now and then based on what i saw people comment, service was typically restored within a short period of time. more recently however, any time i've looked at kbin.social in the past couple weeks, it's only been showing an error page. i suspect it may have been unavailable the entire time, not just at the times i looked at it. looking at our federation stats, the last successfully sent activity from lemmy.world to kbin.social was dated 2024-06-18 00:12:25 UTC, although the actual send date may have been later. successful is also not necessarily guaranteed, as some error codes might be misinterpreted as success due to how servers can be set up and how response status codes are interpreted on the sending side.

if activities sent from lemmy.world don't reach kbin.social then the posts and comments won't be relayed to other instances. this is generally an issue in activitypub when instances are down, as such "orphaned" (at the time) communities effectively become local-only communities, isolated islands on all instances that already know about them.

at this point, the last time we've received an activity submission (federation traffic) from kbin.social as on 18th of June, so it seems like it was working for some time on that day and has been broken since.

at the start of this month, @ernest@kbin.social (kbin.social owner, main kbin dev) said that he was going to hand over management of kbin.social to someone else, as he's currently unable to take care of it. presumably this hasn't happened yet.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

Thank you for jumping in and providing this context!

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I'm seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

[-] sunaurus@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are basically local-only communities on lemmy.world at this point, unfortunately. There is no federation to any other instance for any lemmy.world user posts on those communities.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

@PugJesus@lemmy.world it's time to "cross the Rubicon" to full federation!

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[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hello,

Thank you for sharing.

I clicked on the two first ones, and the last posts seem to be from 28 days ago (the OP suggested to only post communities with at least a post in the last 7 days), and the kbin.social link sends to an error page.

Are you planning to move those communities to another instance?

Edit: federation issue on my side

Edit2: It might indeed be an issue, see other comments

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.

https://ibb .co/GsV1znm

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

Indeed, thanks! I guess it is just a federation issue on my side. When that's the case, I would usually try to see the community on its host instance, but couldn't here.

Thank you for keeping all of those alive !

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[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For interesting/science stuff

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you enjoy reading, !Books@Lemmy.world is pretty active place to discuss what you’re reading and review it or get recommendations.

I try to post significant price drops routinely to !ebookdeals@literature.cafe as well. I mostly post ones that I have heard good things about / read myself and really enjoyed and are valid at all 3 big US ebook retailers, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon at the same time or Humble Bundles. There’s no rule against others posting deals they endorse for other regions or other books, I just wanted to avoid it being a firehouse of spammy links and I only shop US Stores.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago

!learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

It’s for learning rust (the programming language) and the lemmy code base itself as a sort of “reading club”. If you’re the type of person who might be interested there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it already. We’re currently working through The Book (conventional learning resource) through a couple of Twitch streams and regular posts/discussions.

More collaborative learning activity is plenty welcome!

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[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Some shameless self plugs 😛:

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[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For movies, TV and animation

[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

Shamelessly promoting my community again: !homebrewing@sopuli.xyz

It averages about 1 post per week but it certainly isn't dead.

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Stumbled upon it randomly the other day, it's pretty cool!

[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

I am glad that you like it. It would be nice to have little more traffic but post quality is more important so I can't complain.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

!2007scape@lemmy.world for OSRS
!birds@lemmy.world for birds
!illegallysmolbirbs@mander.xyz for small birds

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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Stick enthusiasts !stick@sh.itjust.works

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 6 points 4 months ago

"Imaginary" content

!imaginary@reddthat.com
!lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com for the directory of communities

[-] TehBamski@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

!musicmashups@lemmy.world - Post your favorite and best music mashups.

!standupcomedy@lemmy.world - This community is a place for stand-up comedy videos, shorts, gifs (with audio,) news, and discussion.

!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world - Basically for shirts that you think go hard. That can mean many things but it comes down to what you think stands out.

[-] Fitik@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

@Blaze@reddthat.com On my instance there is 3 active communities, I am not admin in any of them but i think they're pretty cool

!Firefox@fedia.io - Community dedicated to the firefox browser !FirefoxCSS@fedia.io - Community dedicated to the customization of Firefox !FloatingIsFun@fedia.io - Got very cool CSS and looks pretty and customized, dedicated to art and pics of floating things

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

Thank you for your comment. I really like the !floatingisfun one, it looks even better with the custom CSS!

[-] hitstun@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Cool! Thanks for the Floating Is Fun shout out! I wish that CSS would federate to other instances, even if it's just a header image like Lemmy communities get. You Lemmy users can still use interfaces like Photon and Voyager, and it looks great on those.

As for me, I like these ones: !wordle@lemmy.world - I comment my puzzle results in there everyday !news@beehaw.org - Good reliable world news that covers important events !usnews@beehaw.org - I'm American and this is better than most of our news outlets !comicstrips@lemmy.world - Good single-serving comics in my feed !vgmusic@lemmy.world - Sometimes I throw video game music at them @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz - Not a community, but I end up following MentalEdge to a lot of the communities they frequent

[-] chrisbit@leminal.space 5 points 4 months ago

Film photography: !analog@lemmy.world

Dragons! !imaginarydragons@leminal.space

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Europe specific

!europe@feddit.org for news
!yurop@lemm.ee for casual conversations

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

Well I guess !climate@slrpnk.net !energy@slrpnk.net and !technology@slrpnk.net are already quite well known.

!balconygardening@slrpnk.net and !inperson@slrpnk.net are kinda cool as well. In general have a look at our community list, we have some good ones that are at least reasonably active.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

For fans of outdoor cooking, especially with this versatile pellet grill …. !traeger@lemmy.world(https://lemmy.world/c/traeger)

I just got one of these grills and am learning about smoking - let’s help each other out, appreciate each others efforts, and cook some feasts

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fandoms/pop culture

[-] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

!right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de you think companies preventing you from repairing your stuff is BS?

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

There is !fixing@slrpnk.net, maybe you can promote your community there?

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago

If you understand Danish, any of the communities on Feddit.dk should be interesting... But otherwise they probably aren't :P

[-] Blaze@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Makes sense! How many people are usually active on your communities, per week for instance?

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The most active is probably the news community, !nyheder@feddit.dk with 80 active users per week according to the sidebar. I think a good portion of them are users on external instances.