I recently created !tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com and it’s been quite a growth. 336 subscribers in 5 days. It’s a community to find games by describing it. There are quite a few games found already, which makes me happy.
!win9x@retrolemmy.com and !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com have slowed down. Both in posting and activity. I should find some interesting games to post there again. It’s where most of my passion in gaming is. And I love the games of yesteryear. Communities won’t grow without posts to back it up, and I’ve been slacking.
!Bside@fedia.io My alternative gaming community has reached 96 subscribers, so close to 100. I wanted to explain a little a bit the reasons for making the community and what the difference is between other Indie gaming communities.
Before making this community, I searched for communities for “indie games” and found only one active on lemmy.ml, so I thought an indie gaming community that is not on .ml would be nice. My mistake was though that I did not search for “indie gaming,” which made me misd the community on Lemmy.world, which I was pointed out to me later. But at that time I already had quite a few subscribers, and I had made many posts. So I did not want to close the community.
So I started trying to make it different from other Indie gaming communities. One thought I had even before finding out about indie gaming was to focus more on the smaller indie titles and Foss games. The Problem with that idea was I did not know where to draw the line; what should be considered a small indie game? In the end, I decided to drop the idea and allow all the indie games, but I personally would focus a bit more on titles that are somewhat smaller.
A difference that existed since the conception of the community was that I specifically allow NSFW content to be posted. Because I believe adult games are as much part of gaming as other games, and I think most apps and clients allow NSFW content blocking in case someone does not want to see it.
New recent changes I have made to differentiate it from other communities are that it is now allowed to post game mods and ROM hacks. Additionally, it allowed posting free or commercial links to game assets for others to use in their indie games that they are developing.
So in the end !Bside@fedia.io is an indie gaming++ community. So feel free to join if you think it is something for you.
Sounds great, good luck!
I created !pixelart@retrolemmy.com a few days ago. It started with 55 default sub’s from Lemmy-federate bots, but now already has 200 subs, and users participating with their own art!
Quite pleased with the community response, and grateful to retrolemmy.com for hosting it. They were the perfect instance for that community, and seem to run a tight ship :)
We mostly try to keep the server running, and let people be people. Not much admin work to do on a small instance. Thankfully. But we’re happy to have you!
Don’t sell yourselves short, your instance has a lot going for it due to your efforts!
- Active admins who regularly participate and are easily reached if issues come up
- Regularly update to newer versions of Lemmy
- Appealing instance theme
- excellent server up-time
- Sought out Lemmy-federate to make it easier for new communities
All that takes time and effort to maintain, and a surprising amount of smaller instances can lack that. So cheers for all that you do, appreciate it man :)
Haha. Thanks a lot! Even though most of it is due to self interest :p
Been a little while since I popped into one of these threads. Some notable events:
- !gundam@ani.social is entering an exciting period as a new gundam show just started. The first episode discussion thread was lively, so I am hoping that continues through the season.
- !anime@ani.social is also quite active at the moment due to the start of the new anime season. There have been quite a number of names that I don’t recognize from past seasons, so that is exciting.
- !manga@ani.social is similarly experiencing a bit of influx of new users posting and commenting. I haven’t been as active as I would like in this community due to time, so it is a welcome development to have more, different people posting.
Thank you for your work!
Thanks for your work on ani.social :) and probably the rest of the Fediverse, I think I have seen you on my many, many Elevator7009 alts including the dead Kbin ones.
Not building it, but !photography@fedia.io is very nice as it includes Mastodon/Sharkey posts using linked hashtags
Oh thank, i will probably use it for the !artdesign@jlai.lu community
Our instance and communities have continued their slow and steady growth.
Gained 30+ Subscribers
- !weedtime@crazypeople.online leads the way again this week, up to over 250 subscribers. We’re starting to see new people posting here too which is great and highly encouraged.
Gained 25+ Subscribers
- !pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online is up to 135 this week with the second largest growth. This community continues to see success with the help of several others around the Fediverse. We recently merged with another community for better discoverability but even before that things were popping off. With several regular posters, weekly trading events, and some goofing around it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite places on Lemmy.
Gained ~15 Subscribers
- !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online saw fewer new people but user activity is way up. The community is now over 225 subscribers and several new people are posting new music pretty much every day. There’s no telling what we might be listening to, come check us out!
Gained ~10 Subscribers
- !autoracing@crazypeople.online is just shy of 70 subscribers this week, seeing a slight uptick in activity/posting as the various categories get going for the spring/summer. The theme here is very loose, if there are categories you’re interested in that don’t have a home on Lemmy you’re welcome to post them here. High seas friendly.
Single Digit Growth
- !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online slowed down a little bit this week. Now sitting at just under 150 subscribers I’m hopeful we’ll see some new names posting their half baked meme ideas.
Good to see crazypeople.online still having steady growth.
Thanks! I’ve been quite chuffed with the local user growth over the last month or so. Several of the recent applicants have mentioned finding us through reddit threads or search engines which is great because it means we’re getting exposure as a very small instance to people who’ve never heard of Lemmy before. I’m not sure what more we could hope for.
!ask@lemm.ee still getting regular activity
In parallel, I resumed posting on !casualconversation@lemm.ee, it’s nice to just have a place to talk about chill stuff
Since PieFed activated crosspost for video, i recently shared lot of them. Mainly scientific one and news. The fediverse is amazing.
So my communities : !jeuxvideo@jlai.lu, !interessant@jlai.lu are being revived. I’m still waiting for the revival of indie game newsletter “manettes et chouquettes”.
I only miss french international news on the fediverse to help my community !monde@jlai.lu I’m happy with our progress. :)
!television@lemm.ee had a downturn of new member growth, but suddenly surged in last 2 days (from like +5 in two days to +20). Still plugging away. Most posts get comments and engagement.
!obscuremusic@lemm.ee plugging away similarly. Obviously is much slower.
!dull_mens_club@lemmy.world got a flurry of posts after nearly two weeks of inactivity. !dullsters@dullsters.net has been getting regular posts and we’re at over 500 subscribers.
I’m considering a safety focused community called “safety” or likewise to promote safety where people can post about near misses and lessons learned and have a monthly or weekly safety topic.
!buyeuropean@feddit.uk is still very active. !BuyFromEU@europe.pub still consists mostly of reposts without any comments.
Business as usual on the following manual hobbies communities
Trying to keep !goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works active
Tried to post a few cards on !map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz. Good content isn’t that easy to find, /r/MapPorn is very low quality nowadays
