I get a lot of upvotes but barely any contribution from my 1.7k followers
I do not aspire to be a volunteer internet janitor.
I mod 9 communities. It’s quieted down a lot, but I’m not working hard to drive engagement and content back up right now.
The mod tools are practically non-existent, so why should I work to bring a community to a place where I won’t be able to manage it?
I need to see a feed of just what I moderate so I can scan all comments for issues. It’s not realistic to read every post one by one.
There needs to be options for minimum 'karma" score so a new user can’t just pop in and spam.
There are other needs that have been discussed in other threads already, but that’s my biggest gripe.
Indeed, mod tools are something that seriously need working. I dunno if they are working on it. Hopefully yes.
Regardless, please do create content and try to improve lemmy!
I am a mod at [email protected]. I wish there was more content, but it is not bad.Lemmy is still at the start.
Hopefully more and more users start seeing the benefit of having a platform that is not enriching the wallets of the shareholders and is instead something by the users for the users.
I started a few communities and it’s hilarious to me which ones are doing well and which ones aren’t. I start a community about the popular tv show Survivor, zero interaction and a surprising amount of negativity and downvotes for some reason.
Then I have a joke one about doing household dishes and people seem to love it. I get interaction, other users posting content, lots of upvotes, and a few confused people wondering why the community even exists.
I generate most of the content on my communities but I keep the amount at a level I can handle daily without stress. Here’s to hoping for more original content from other community users soon :)
Haha, i get a similiar feeling from [email protected] when seeing cableporn(Tidying cables ).
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Back in late June, I was thinking of making a community here. While drawing up more concrete plans for it, I realized it’d be way too much work for me, even ignoring the fact that I’m completely new to the task of moderation (and hence, would likely fumble around in handling issues). Furthermore, a lot of related communities I’ve followed never went anywhere, which discouraged me.
All that’s ignoring the fact that I was thinking of creating an extremely niche community (a community for Anki, focusing on its use for language learning), I decided it’s not yet time. I was too late to capitalize the early stages of migration, but I’m too early to capitalize on the number of people being able to support niche communities.
Okay I guess
Never heard of [email protected] , but it seen somewhat popular.
Yep. I had to raise my community for months now, but recently I’ve had more active posters other than me. I’m just glad that its gotten as big as it is now.
I have a few hundred subscribers but every post made by a handful of users is immediately downvoted. Not lemmys favorite sub reddit. But its been what I expected and seems like new people join all the time.
I am trying hard to get [email protected] going, although I’m not a mod myself. Subscriber numbers are growing, but it’s still rare that someone else posts. I just try to keep plugging away at a sustainable pace. Luckily I have a repository of pictures and stories to share, which dates back several years
I started similarly on Reddit as a sort of power user on a couple subs such as altcomix and bandedessinee. It can be a borderline thankless job, but still, it feels good to help grow a community as a productive member.
After the great Spez-out, I started a parallel community here on Lemmy called [email protected], and I’m happy with how it’s going so far. 270 total subscribers after less than two months, and most days I contribute two posts of material, partly from my archive and partly new stuff I find. Hopefully the community ‘takes off’ at some point, i.e. with actively posting users. I understand it takes time, though.
Anyway, I salute you for being such a good contributor. All our little communities need people like you. :-)
I see a lot niche of a niche communities(music->genre -> genre variation; programming language ->web/db -> specific language), i imagine that would be hard to find them unless you are looking for them.
Moderator of [email protected], not particularly active, but that’s fine with me.
I mod two, one with about 800 subscribers and about 8 active people. I interact with them daily.
I mod the Star Wars Community on db0, but there is literally no engagement. There’s a little more on the lemmy.world community, but not much, really.
I’m a mod in many places. A mod of several Tumblr groups (most of them for conflict resolution), of this Discord server, of a now-dead DeviantArt group that used to be very popular (you could say the popularity broke it), and of a Gab group I’m probably going to delete soon, among others. Most recently I was hired as a mod for [email protected] and I think this made me the happiest, I’ve enjoyed r/casualconversation and so this feels very special to me. I eternally thank them.
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