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I felt disheartened a bit ago because I posted discussion questions sometimes on !otomegames@ani.social and did not get any bites besides my own starter comment answering my own question (not in the post body so as not to elevate my own opinion above the others, and posted also to encourage people to post: 1 comment is easier to speak up with than 0, I think, because that 1 comment might give you something to engage with if the post itself did not). I posted discussion questions in several communities today, including !otomegames@ani.social, got bites, and I'm delighted reading all the responses.

(in !pokemon@lemm.ee, !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de, and one in !tycoon@lemmy.world that I crossposted to !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works)

Quite happy with the grow of !ask@lemm.ee

Thank you @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al and other people who post there

It's very slow because there are basically no Koreans on Lemme, I'm not even a mod on this community but 90% of the posts are mine, the mod/admin basically never posts, very few comments but at least some upvotes :D

!korea@lemmy.funami.tech

Getting a bit frustrated about the BuyEuropean / BuyfromEU situation. Now there's even another one, !BuyFromEU@europe.pub. I tried to bring the argument that too many communities on a niche topic splinter discussion with the admin, but they still want to keep their community open.

!europePub@europe.pub for people interested

Happy to see the TV communities consolidated on !Television@lemm.ee

@simple@lemm.ee, thank you for your post there!

Things have felt pretty damn good around crazypeople.online but lets review-

!eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online Still tops the list. Last week we had just over 100 subscribers, this week we're sitting at >160 and the activity around the community shows it. Fucking bravo everyone. Legends, all of you.

!weedtime@crazypeople.online Has a mirror trajectory. Last week just under 100 subscribers, this week we are just under 160 awesome people to hang out with. Activity is up here as well. Great stuff!

!loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online moves up a spot this week from around 60 subscribers last week, up to nearly 90 this week. @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com is churning out low effort masterpieces like a kindergarten class with finger paints. What more could we ask for? Whenever you guys are done eating paste come show him your appreciation and hang your own low effort artwork on the wall!

!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online moves down a slot but still saw impressive growth for our small instance. Last week we had around 60 subscribers and this week we're over 70. The activity is up here too with weekly trading opportunities (IT'S TODAY!) posted by @Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world and @ladel@feddit.uk filling us in with news and updates. Come check out the cool stuff we've been pulling and maybe pickup a card or two you've been hunting!

!autoracing@crazypeople.online is still working on breaking into the 50 subscriber club. With the return of F1 we've had more of that type of content being posted, but anything and everything auto racing is more than welcome.

!journaling@sh.itjust.works keeps on growing (437 users, today), but still very little participation.

I'm counting on the new subscribers to make a difference in the long run as I imagine most of the old user base is AFK like the original admin/creator (there were approx 200-230 users when I was given the keys to the community, and it had been hibernating for at the very least a whole year before I started posting). Hopefully with the number of new users steadily growing, and them becoming less 'new' a few should start participate more ;)

Thank you @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com for your posts on !imaginary@reddthat.com !

!lego@lemm.ee still doing fine

Sort of a reversal of last time, !haiku@lemm.ee has more or less stayed constant at 78 subscribers, while !fakealbumcovers@lemm.ee is only 3 away from 100, and has had a few posts from other people so far. Did try to reach out to the albumartporn community mod, but didn't get a reply yet.

Still happy with the overall progress, though.

On !sumo@lemmy.world things are still going pretty good!

• We're up to 78 subscribers from 47 when I started posting 10 days ago during the March tournament. For a niche comm, that's solid. Occasionally others are making comments and 1 person made a post.
• Unfortunately lemmy.world updated their server software and now the thumbnail images that I was making for youtube videos don't propagate there... And sumo is a very visual sport, so I think that's a major loss to casual browsers who might be enticed to check it out. I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world to make the posts from there (since I think the thumbnails work on the same server they're posted on?) but am still trying to make that happen.
• Weirdly, one of my lemmy posts was federated to Mastodon? Check this out: https://mastodon.social/@Sergio@slrpnk.net/114166860518065085 It's not something I intentionally did so I don't know why that one was federated and not the others. HYPOTHESIS: Maybe because @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip commented on it and maybe lemmy.zip has some setting that does it automatically? Also noted that my response to tigeruppercut's comment did not federate to mastodon. Not sure wtf is going on there.

In other news, on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world things are still relatively active. Most of the recent posts are by @Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world, and I'm not posting unless there are at least two other posts since my last post. There were a couple other people posting in the last 2 weks and commenting occasionally tho. Luckily Bandcamp thumbnail images are automatically made and working OK.