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, [email protected] and [email protected] are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities
Some casual history promotion
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.Edit: federation issue on my side
Are you planning to move those communities to another instance?
Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.
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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 !
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.
Very good point. I just had a look at https://lemm.ee/c/[email protected], and despite having 34 local subscribers (visible in the sidebar), the newest post are from 2 months ago.
@[email protected], you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/
@[email protected], 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 @[email protected] 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, @[email protected] (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.
Thank you for jumping in and providing this context!
These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I’m seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.
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.
@[email protected] it’s time to “cross the Rubicon” to full federation!
I’m gonna give Kbin a little while longer to get its shit together, but if need be, I’ll swap to Lemmy.world in the near future.
They have been out for 12 days, hope is quite low
Ernest said he was handing over the reigns to someone else soon. I’d like to give them a chance before I bail on Kbin. I really like Kbin.
You do you!
[email protected] - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre
[email protected] - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting
[email protected] - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.
[email protected] - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion
[email protected] - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @[email protected] 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
Interesting list, thanks!
If you understand Danish, any of the communities on Feddit.dk should be interesting… But otherwise they probably aren’t :P
Makes sense! How many people are usually active on your communities, per week for instance?
The most active is probably the news community, [email protected] with 80 active users per week according to the sidebar.
Maybe make it a monthly thing on the first or last day of the month?
Stick enthusiasts [email protected]
“Imaginary” content
- [email protected]
- [email protected] for the directory of communities
I think the rest of my communities haven’t seen activity lately, so I’ll have to post in them first!
I did not expect !beds to be about Bedfordshire. I assumed it was furniture related.
I was going to put Bedfordshire in brackets next to that, but I forgot. I knew it could cause confusion!
Its okay nothing to lose sleep over.
Spanish-speaking communities
Can I just post my whole instance 🤣
Some shameless self plugs 😛:
Europe specific
- [email protected] for news
- [email protected] for casual conversations
For casual discussions and real life topics
For movies, TV and animation
If you enjoy reading, [email protected] 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 [email protected] as well. I mostly post ones that I have heard good things about or 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.
Gonna add some:
Funny Animals being Stupid [email protected]
Animals with “Jobs” (Cute Pics) [email protected]
Home Aquariums
Anarcho Primitivism (is mostly dead, maybe we can revive?) (Political Ideology) [email protected]
Anti Consumerism [email protected]