Here’s a great example of how a regularly-occurring post can help grow a community. On !vampires@lemmy.zip @Zagorath@aussie.zone is posting the novel Dracula “as it happens” on a calendar. It’s an epistolary novel, so they’ve posted the chapters for May 3, 4, and 5 so far and will post the remaining chapters over the next couple months as that day occurs. (The first 2 chapters are pretty short so you can catch up easily if you want to read along!)

• the chapters in order posted so far
• the community: !vampires@lemmy.zip

I guess to revive a community:

• find something to post on a regular basis. e.g. on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world I post a weekly announcement about the upcoming Monsterdon movie viewing (with links and background info); LaurenceWolse posts 2-3 movie overviews a week, and there we have the basis for a moderately active sub.
• find another couple of people to help you out by posting regularly
• keep posting on this community’s weekly thread and getting advice/inspiration from other posters here

I wouldn’t stress about it. Communities don’t have to be active all the time. When I remember the Dunder Mifflin (fandom for tv show The Office) sub back on r$ddit, it was always active, but it was the same limited number of arguments and jokes and catch-phrases over and over. It was kinda amusing, but also kinda braindead. Why not just wait until there’s a new tour or album or other news?

I had a similar experience with !sumo@lemmy.world. The Japanese tournaments only happen every 2 months, so it’s dormant now… instead of trying to “force” discussion, I’m just waiting for a couple more weeks where it’ll be back to daily posting for the 15-day tournament. If I came across some awesome news or media I might post it but otherwise I’m not going to stress it.

Also see: the beginning of the Rambo movie First Blood.

why not outside the oligarchs mansions?

Oligarchs will just go to another one of their mansions. But local politicians track those crowd sizes bc their jobs depend on it.

On the bright side, there’s an alternate-universe version of you who’ll say: “Would love to have heard about this more than a day in advance!”

Nah, we just rebooted !gothindustrial@lemmy.world and have several daily posters now, I’d rather build on that than move and start all over again. Besides, there’s a lot of “alt” stuff that doesn’t really speak to me, so if everyone moved I’d just stay behind and wait for it to come to life again. (In fact, being alone on a dead community is kinda goth, lel.)

Hey, if you’re looking for communities to merge, !punk@lemmy.world and !punk_rock@lemmy.ca are both mildly alive, and their mods have been absent for a year or two.

You mean !gpral@hilariouschaos.com ? Yeah that’s there, I think when it was announced a lot of people disparaged it bc the community is on a pro-MAGA server, looks like the announcements were even removed (details).

One problem with an “alternative” general community is that, say, punk plays a big part of some people’s identity and life philosophy but they may not identify as “alternative”.

Obviously they were laughing about the horrible crime they had just committed! /s

Yeah, they would arrest more Latinos without due process and have us build the rail as slave labor (contracted out to their corporate buddies, ofc.)

Hey redditors, if you send me five bucks I’ll set up your Lemmy account for you. /jk …unless?

My cousin went for a walk in their aunt’s residential neighborhood, and someone called the cops on them.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

Someone on this Mastodon instance started to follow the tycoon lemmy community

Fascinating info. I’d noticed that posts from the lemmy community !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip were showing up on Mastodon. For example: https://mastodon.social/@Hammerjack@lemmy.zip/114286540525130294

But how do I follow a lemmy community from mastodon? I tried a couple things but nothing worked. Thanks for any additoinal info.

From what I understand you need to host Lemmy Schedule,

I’ve been told you can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ and just log in to your regular lemmy account, but I haven’t used it myself.

For reference, the shi.itjust.works discussion on defederating exploding-heads is a pretty good read: https://sh.itjust.works/post/564252

After a lot of instances defederated exploding-heads it looks like they shut down and went to nostr, but after a while a contingent returned and set up hilariouschaos. at first they weren’t widely federating with others but then they started federating openly (though several instances defederated them):

• https://hilariouschaos.com/post/39
• https://hilariouschaos.com/post/49
• https://hilariouschaos.com/post/1146427
• https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/hilariouschaos.com as cited above

Looks like lemmy.world and lemm.ee have not defederated hilariouschaos, though lemmy.world had previously defederated exploding-heads (not sure about lemm.ee).

I dunno, mixed feelings, still processing all of this.

When I was trying it out I put in some Japanese words in hiragana and it handled them OK.

ha ha, that’s awesome, I remember trying out suno last year and it wasn’t able to correctly end a song. That “unearthly shrieking” is pretty funny.

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world just hit 600 subscribers over the weekend. A couple different people posting, which is nice. A modest number of comments and discussions, but it’s a niche topic so not really surprising. I was made a mod for a while but renounced it, mostly bc I didn’t want to take on the commitment. But it did make me consider that if only the mods are posting, newcomers might be reluctant to post. So it’s good to have regular posters who are not mods.

Funny thing, after I clicked to give up mod powers, they returned after I signed in again next time. I think the other mods hadn’t yet realized I gave them up? Anyway, I wrote some goth song lyrics about the feeling of signing in and then seeing that I had been made a mod again:

This dreaded label
is haunting my name
This dreaded label
like a sigil arcane

This tag! (it burns it burns it burns)
Like a dagger to the eye!
This tag! (it burns it burns it burns)
It corrodes me inside!
(unearthly shrieking)

(minimalist guitar solo)

lel that’s a joke btw

Agreed, for any non-trivial bug I just start dumping text into a word file to track what I’m doing. Like: error messages, values of variables at key places, libraries used, URLs of documentation and background reading and stackoverflow pages looked at, test fixes and their effects, etc. Then if someone asks me wtf I’ve been doing all day I can easily show them. Also, if I have the same problem a couple months later I can remind myself.