I want to be part of the solution of the problems I see on Lemmy, that is why I opened my alt account at my current server to open new communities while fixing their issues.

I had been informed by the server admin that I should not post more than 5 posts in any local community which is guaranteed to kill my communities on my current server.

I am explaining the backstory here for people to understand my logic for my question.

So, I really appreciate any help here. If anyone can give me good servers to open my communities in.

My current communities:

  • News: to lower the load on Lemmy. World server and to improve the Fediverse health.
  • Europe: due to less than optimal moderation actions as documented in "power trippin " community.
  • Misinformation/ Disinformation: Because there is no community to post research and news about this topic.

Thank you all for your help. I really would appreciate any lead here.

  • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    You don’t need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here. There’s not that many people on Lemmy, things are a bit slower paced.

    I mod !bicycles@lemmy.ca and we’d be lucky to have one post per day, yet I think it’s still a relatively healthy community, with a decent amount of engagement on most posts.

    • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      You don’t need 5 posts a day for a community to survive here

      “Surving” != “Thriving”.

      A couple of years ago, I noticed that the front page of HackerNews was consistently getting links from Mastodon posts. That was interesting because it showed that at least one significant part of the tech conversation had moved away from Twitter and into the Fediverse.

      No such thing has happened for Lemmy. There is no particular community which is thriving. There is no example of subreddit community that had successfully boycotted Reddit and transplanted here. We have the usual handful of posters, each one trying to maintain their communities “alive”, but that is far from its true potential.

        • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
          11·
          19 hours ago

          Oh, wow. Thank you for a very good example for self-selection bias!

          Seriously, though: why is it that you feel this intense urge to dismiss any and everything I am saying? Don’t you think that is a little bit sad that all you can do is this mindless pontification?

          • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            5·
            18 hours ago

            I reply when I see absolutes such as “all communities on Lemmy are dead”, "all mods are bad ", “all communities are about politics”

            It paints the platform in a bad light and it’s not accurate.

            Don’t you think that is a little bit sad that all you can do is this mindless pontification?

            Another example of absolute.

            I help this platform grow by regularly posting and engaging with regular users.

            Stop using absolute statements and I’ll stop replying.

            • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
              11·
              18 hours ago

              I reply when I see absolutes such as “all communities on Lemmy are dead”, "all mods are bad ", “all communities are about politics”

              1. I didn’t make any of these statements
              2. There is a big difference between “sweeping generalizations” and “categorically correct statements”. The former are the statements you give as examples, but the latter can apply to the absolute majority of cases, even if someone has a data point (“the exception that proves the rule”) in the contrary.

              It paints the platform in a bad light

              Why would you think that?

              The original argument was “Communities don’t need a lot of posting to survive here”, and my response is basically saying “we should strive for more than surviving”.

              It seems like that instead of focusing on the part where I am calling for more action, you decided to focus on what you perceive as criticism and you try to attack that as soon as possible.

              Stop using absolute statements and I’ll stop replying

              It feels like your problem is not with the “absolute statements”, but that you are doing your best to reject reality.

              It doesn’t matter if the number is 100% or 99% or 92.376%, what matters is that it has been two years since the Reddit boycott and we still do not have a good example of a thriving community here. We had many attempts (the /r/selfhosted people, the /r/blind), but they are by and large still on Reddit. Can you at least agree to that?

              • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                1·
                11 hours ago

                There is no particular community which is thriving.

                https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

                47 communities with more than 5k monthly active users.

                It seems like that instead of focusing on the part where I am calling for more action, you decided to focus on what you perceive as criticism and you try to attack that as soon as possible.

                I didn’t see a “call for more action” in that comment.

                !fedigrow@lemmy.zip and !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com are communities about acting to make the platform grow.

                they are by and large still on Reddit. Can you at least agree to that?

                Of course they are, the same way the vast majority of microblog users are still on Twitter compared to Mastodon. That doesn’t prevent communities to thrive, as stated above.

                • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
                  1·
                  9 hours ago

                  I didn’t see a “call for more action” in that comment.

                  We have someone that wants to post more content and who is being told “don’t do that. things here are slow. It’s more than enough to have only 5 posts a day, more than that and you are spamming” and I am saying “No, it’s not enough. We should be encouraging to have people posting more, not less.”

                  Of course they are, the same way the vast majority of microblog users are still on Twitter compared to Mastodon.

                  I gave a very specific example to illustrate where Mastodon had become more relevant than Twitter. Again: it’s not about absolute numbers.

                  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                    11·
                    7 hours ago

                    No, it’s not enough. We should be encouraging to have people posting more, not less.”

                    Host them on your instance, then.

                    I gave a very specific example to illustrate where Mastodon had become more relevant than Twitter. Again: it’s not about absolute numbers.

                    I just checked the first two pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/

                    No Twitter thread, no Mastodon thread. The closest links are blog posts from Medium or Substack, or personal blogs.