I’m not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.

Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I’ll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don’t know.

I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of ‘BD’ and the little tidbits I write up, there’s not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN’s, and who also want to spend time posting.

This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they’ve been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.

Thanks, Blaze.
Appreciate. ^^

Seems kind of weirdly unnecessary to start with “Lemmy” instead of just going with TMBG, but whatevs. Subscribed to John & John.

Ugh… another tragically late reply, hah.

So, how would such a thing appear to the users? Would it be like an auto-posting bot? Can you point me to a working example of such?

Ack, sorry for the late reply, Blaze! :S

Is there anything we can do to help?

Appreciate. <3
I think I’ve made the critical adjustment necessary, which is to not push myself anymore, trying to make one post per day. It was very ambitious, and it seems to have grown our subscribers a lot over the months, but it’s just too much for me with the low energy, aching hands & back, etc.

Other than that, I think my disillusionment with my community & Lemmy overall is fading a bit. Indeed, one has to keep adjusting one’s expectations across life, mais non?

Do you think you need another mod?

Yes, there are three distinct positions available.

My current mod to me is like an old friend, life preserver, and provider of cool Moebius stuff, but his time is limited for this extra stuff.

I absolutely BLEW MY TOP, then apologised profusely on my community.

Which is all good, I suppose, but… my sub still needs another mod.

I always think I’m at a dead end in piano, and my teacher tells me to knock it off because I’m way ahead of where normal progress is for an adult student.

So, hope I’m not offending you or anything– But… maestro, you ROCK at the owl pics and captions. So beautiful the captures, and ultra-witty, the expressions.

It really is like magic. ^^

Oh rabbits, this post is 17days old, now. :S

Oh yeah, it’s always good to feel the neeiiiighhh!

I’m still your boss, though, see. SEE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLnZ1NQm2uk

Nah, I love your work. Please keep on, keepin-on! <3

Dude (hehe, sorry), you seem so young and smart (which you are of course), whilst I’m a tired, middle-aged man.

In regards to overall growth of Lemmy, I look at us as the instances being the mom and pop shops vs the commercial conglomerates of Reddit and Facebook. I don’t want or need to be that big to feel successful. I’m close to getting 3k subs, and that’s more people than I ever imagined to have listening to me. We don’t need to be all things to all people. We can coexist with other platforms.

Excellent points, thank you for that. <3

perhaps a lot of Fediverse hobby communities have skilled people and beginners are perhaps too scared to post because they don’t see anyone else just starting

This is a GREAT point IMO, and I think it’s good to never to forget it. Even as smashingly common as it is.

Because ultimately, we’re going to make the Fediverse work because we pay attention to details like this, whereas Reddit is just sort of organised mechanisms at this point, mais non?

@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected]

P.S. And yes-- I doubt we’re ever going to come close to Reddit (or other pop-mediums) in terms of total userbase and/or pop-engagement, but to me, folks who make sites like this work are preserving a sort of ‘last chance for humanity to stave off corporate ownership.’ Our last chance to deliver a nice little FUCK YOU to late-stage capitalism, if you like.

Sorry for my language, mateys.

But… why is it even a QUESTION of extending some decency and goodwill, in such case? Illegal immigrants is NOT a real issue in the USA. In fact, it’s a critical shortage.

Sorry, I’m a bit pissed-off. @[email protected]

For anything bad we can find, there’s an opposite story to tell about those who are trying to make it better. Rather than telling the stories about the villains, let us tell stories about the heroes more.

Hmm, I like your kindly, rather philosophical nature, too!

Rather than telling the stories about the villains, let us tell stories about the heroes more.

Oh, settle down there… We’re all heroes & villains at the end of the day, didn’t you get that memo?

Right on, A6789.
In fact I recall reading you stating the body of such not too long ago, and I thought it very smart, pragmatic, and kind. Okay, let’s see:

I’ve gotten lucky to get a few regular commentors by this point. So far we get semi-regular & random folks, which is cool of course, but regulars would be nice, you know?

I mean, it would be nice to share more of where we’re each coming from, keep in mind our likes & dislikes, and do little ‘tip of the caps’ to them. I’d like that, if possible.

Gotta give that positive reinforcement.

I love that whole technique, and I salute your approach, but at the same time, Euro GN’s border (or encompass) serious, heavy themes & content, and I’m afraid it would falter on the edge of being pedantic if I was to go too far in that direction.

Altho for the record, in terms of my screwups, there’s me BLOWING MY TOP in the comments:
https://lemm.ee/post/37318592

Be open, meet people from other communities, talk to them, participate in their communities to give them some comments to attract others, and that’s all we can do.

Good points!
Altho A6789-- mate, you know you’re allowed to change your public-facing username whilst keeping your core name for login purposes, etc.

I’m just being silly here, but whadya think, whadya think:

• OwlHead Jones
• Hooter Howdy
• Owlicious (Delicious)
• ThatLittleRodentIsDoomed

…

Hola, Rolando!
So-- I think this why any healthy community needs casual posters. I mean, it’s all very well for the founders, mods & awesome posters like @[email protected] at c/SuperbOwl to post excellent content on a regular basis, but we also need people coming from the zen / beginner’s side of things to post topics like 1) “Help me remember this media?,” 2) “What is your opinion on X?,” 3) “I need help with this issue,” 4) “Hey look, here’s my latest gear / shelfie / etc!”

Yes, and I’m largely stating the obvious, but how do we get there? One idea would be for the ‘content creators’ to turn around and post from the other direction (as above). I’ve actually had decent luck with that in the past, when the community was much smaller, but for whatever reason I stopped doing that. The point of course is to set an example for others to follow, but also to put our members in the position to help out the show-runners, so to speak. Let them have a turn to be the ‘experts.’

Anyway, that’s one idea.

Laaate reply, but: 1) it seems to me there’s a big bloc of users who truly despise Reddit, and would go anywhere else but back, 2) there seems to be a pretty big bloc of users who are comfortable with the size and nature of Lemmy, and don’t want to go anywhere else AFAIK.

People glom onto the only entity bothering to do benchmarks/reviews/ratings/whatever, or at least the only popular one, even if the system is totally bogus.

I don’t get any of this, really. MetaCritic and IMDB are also huge, and use alternate weighting systems, I believe. You can also just google the movie and underneath the ‘big three reviewers,’ there’ll be a bunch more quality review sites, like NYT, The Guardian, Ebert’s site and so forth.

So for anyone who wants to get a spectrum of opinions, it’s really not that hard. Not unlike how one should get reliable news.

Oy, now I understand why I wasn’t seeing your latest content!

Hmm, I haven’t hyperventilated in a long time.

I tend to include extra images in the body of my posts, and have been driven up the wall for the past ~three weeks or so, as our instance started inserting code that just wasn’t working. Finally it seems okay now, but trying to research, upgrade art quality, and do little writeups on a near-daily basis is already kind of a tall task at times. Wow-o-wowsers, I didn’t need that baffling flakiness for awhile there. :S

In other news, the community’s coming up on its 1yr anniversary and overall has gone pretty well. Over a post per day of content, and ~740 users so far. So, growing subscribers seems to be on track, but there’s still the huge question of who’s going to do most of the posting, eventually? So far its pretty much still just myself and my co-mod generating said content. Hmm…

Christians have an utter landslide of reasons to believe the most outlandish of complete nonsense, but I’ve always been a fan of science, facts, and reality.

So I thank you. <3

Where as tofu is rather efficient at only 80 kcal per 100g.

Tofu is a heavily-processed “food,” so it’s the last thing I’d be holding up as any kind of standard, here.