[Meta] Any chance of consolidating this community with !fantasy@lemmy.ml?

tl;dr of the tl;dr: nobody stopping anything less than the most obvious harassment, sexism, ackchyually guys, reply guys, drama queens, and tantrums tantrums tantrums.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47198957/19583333

“Drama” can be necessary when mods or admins power trip. Criticizing the reporting instead of addressing the actual issue seems counter productive.

Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 hours ago

I sometimes post more than that, something like

3-4 posts on !football@sopuli.xyz
2 posts on !lego@piefed.social
2-3 posts on !movies@piefed.social
2 posts on !android@lemdro.id
2 posts on !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
1 post on !casualconversation@piefed.social
1 post on !casualeurope@piefed.social

I usually do it in one go so that I am then done for the day.

I don’t think it is spammy, as those are on different communities, hence my question.

Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 hours ago

Interesting idea, not sure about the counter. Is it 10 posts per hour per community, or total?

Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 hours ago

Thank you for the update, enjoy your holidays!

Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 hours ago

I think what we need is foster a nice atmosphere. Genuine human conversation underneath posts with above average quality. That’d grow Lemmy and make it a better place. (And instead we dump more posts/noise, and we can see where we’re headed with that.)

Beehaw wanted to have this kind of very curated approach, their communities aren’t much more active that on non-curated instances.

If you want very in-depth conversation, maybe try to revive !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca ? It seems to fit your requirements.

You talk about original content, it is not contradictory to have both OC and reposts from elsewhere. A thing to keep in mind is that people posting OC will only do so if they get enough reactions on it. !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works used to be quite busy when it first started, but the main mod who used to post a lot hasn’t been active for a year, probably because there weren’t enough people here to justify posting here on top of Reddit.

People upvote memes, the ragebait of the day, simple truths.

It depends. I post about things I care about. My latest post was about a new movie coming, there were 68 comments: https://piefed.zip/post/153138 , and it was a legit conversation, even though it was a repost from a new movie poster. Reposting existing content isn’t contradictory with having genuine conversations.

I’m pretty sure we’re the minority here. Most people seem to like it the other way around. (Need…more…posts in everyone’s timeline.) I’m pretty sure it’s also a big part of the equation of why Lemmy always stagnates and we’re stuck at 45k users. We’ve been doing it the “re-post” way a long time now, and we can see the results of that. We shove around content because of some reasons, but we should come up with original and genuine content instead.

It’s a multi factor issue.
To have genuine conversations on a certain topic, there need to be at least a minimum userbase interested in that topic.
With 45k MAU, we can talk about generic topics. The more userbase we get, the more niche topics we can have.

When I talk about Lemmy on Reddit to try to get those additional users we need, the first issues they have with the platform is the political stances of the devs, and the fact that a lot of communities are still hosted on the hosted instance (you’ve read cm0002 comment, so you’re aware).

Lemmy has a bad reputation due to this, and while this will remain true, this will prevent us from getting more people. That’s also why Piefed raises a lot of hopes.

Last potential example of growth: a niche community moving.

Db0 had a large influx of users (625) following a post on Reddit about their instance: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37167077

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is mostly reposts with news about piracy, not a lot of OC content, but it being out of Reddit is enough for people to use it.