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  • crazypeople.online has seen slow but steady local growth as well as growth within the communities we host. We have a few regulars in most communities now and new people engaging with the content more regularly. Here's the rundown:

    Gained ~20 Subscribers
    Gained ~15 Subscribers
    Stagnant Growth

    A BIG THANKS to everyone across the fediverse who participates in our communities. I don't want to tag the same few people every week but you're all awesome for helping turn an empty space into communities with a pulse. 🙏

    We try to offer some low stress retreats from some of the more headline dominated communities. If you haven't checked us out you definitely should, you might find your new favorite hang out.

    • Hey frosty trichs wanted to let you know ive been keeping tabs on your instance love the weedtime community and see you over on trees all the time. I might consider joining sometime :)

      • Hey frosty trichs wanted to let you know ive been keeping tabs on your instance love the weedtime community and see you over on trees all the time.

        I've been following the changes to !vaporents@lemmy.world recently. Congrats on your recent mod appointment. It's nice to see the activity picking up over there. Once upon a time I was very active on that subreddit so it's nice to see it getting some love here. You're welcome to crosspost to weedtime if you'd like. We probably have a lot of subscriber overlap but it doesn't hurt to share.

        I might consider joining sometime :)

        Any time mate. It took a lot of work to get our instance to play nicely with l.w because of their size so it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all to see some of that traffic migrate here lol.

  • !neat@lemmy.world I made it to post random stuff I couldn’t elsewhere. On rare occasions others post. Satisfied with that tbh since its not like I have a karma score or whatev

  • I've been starting to get a few posts (besides me) showing up in !star_trek@lemmy.zip, so that's good! I feel like there are a few too many communities (there are 7 general Star Trek communities, plus the more specific ones) for the amount of users currently here, but that's how it goes! The community founder decided not to continue, so I decided to take over rather than let it disappear.

  • Wondering if an option to opt a community out of downvotes outside subscribers would be a good idea.

    I remember being on Mbin and seeing some poor baseball community I was browsing with things that looked to be factual and from credible sources having about 3 upvotes and downvotes to most posts, making it look like the content was fake or low-quality. I'm wondering how many of those votes were actual subscribed people (or people interested in lurking), and how many were just trolls downvoting anything they could—which happened to congregate in on a tiny community with not too many supporters to shout out the troll voices (like when a post has 50 upvotes and 1 downvote and zero negativity in the comments—you can probably guess the downvote is not for "off topic" or "low quality" or "spam" or "cruel," just a troll being a troll).

    I do think the outside world's input is still valuable, but I do want to be able to protect small communities from having this happen to them, where every post looks like a shit contribution if you just check the votes even if the posts are good, because random people who downvote a topic because they just don't like that topic instead of blocking it from their feed or scrolling past, or actual trolls, got to it and there are not enough subscribers to drown the noise out.

    Posting because I think some small communities I'm in have total outsiders downvoting posts to the point it outweighs subscriber upvotes: they are usually totally inoffensive, have no misinformation, and are on-topic for the community and on par with the usual effort it takes to make posts in that community, and yet almost even in upvotes/downvotes.

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