How are you doing with your communities?

!WomensStuff@lazysoci.al has been going great! We've over 1000 members which is a great result I never thought we'd get.

Me and the lovely @Alice@hilariouschaos.com are rejuvenating !gpral@hilariouschaos.com a goth, punk etc community. That's only just started but hopefully it takes off.

Happy to say we have had a little activity going on in !journaling@sh.itjust.works, which means a lot of activity in comparison with the previous weeks/months ;)

No idea why this week there were more activity but I certainly will not complain. Maybe this week's theme in the weekly thread I post has helped out? Can't tell.

We also gained 12 new members since last week which is great, obviously.

Last week really flew by, jeez.

Instance Growth

crazypeople.online continues to grow at a steady pace. We seem to be attracting a mix of reddit refugees, newer lemmy users, and some alts/established users. We added some additional resources to the server yesterday to keep things running smoothly as more people join and expand our reach.

Community Growth

Activity is up, and we even had a local user spin up a community this week. Great stuff for our little place. Here's what the numbers say-

• !weedtime@crazypeople.online moves into the top spot this week. Now over 220 subscribers, this communitiy has grown by 20+ subscribers yet again. With 4/20 fast approaching I'm hopeful we'll see a surge in user activity here soon too.
• !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online slides to second place this week. Subscriber growth was in the single digits this week but overall activity is way up as new people have started sharing the music they're jamming. If you're looking for a place to share or discover a wide range of music, this is it.
• !loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online grew by about 10 subscribers this week. The content here is fairly sporadic as there are just a couple of us posting whenever the mood strikes. There are definitely more people on lemmy with ideas for lazy memes. Don't be shy!
• !pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online also grew by about 10 subscribers this week. The trade posts have been helping players grab the cards they need each week and we've been developing some friendly rivalries about silly in game mechanics. @Blaze@HalfTheFediverse.lol (kidding @Blaze@lemmy.zip) has been sharing some of the artwork from the TCG for us to get our hopes up about what we might see added in the future, and others have been sharing their pulls and picks too. If you play this game and you aren't part of our community you're missing out IMO.
• !autoracing@crazypeople.online is nearing 60 subscribers. If you're into racing you might find some of the posts interesting, but the series and events being posted are somewhat irregular. More content is always welcomed!

Thanks to everyone who's checking us out and engaging with our communities. Looking forward to what the future holds for our space!

Activity on !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz has gone down since I haven't had time to draw and I don't really want to post requests without contributing myself so it doesn't just look like a dead community. But there is atleast one post a week!

Will have to get back into it soon.

!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz's weekly thread still gathers nice amount of commenters, so that's a positive! I feel like people are too shy to ask questions there.

@PugJesus@lemmy.world is single handedly carrying !toiletpaperusa@lemmy.world and I am eternally grateful...

Now I just need someone to do that with all of the other random communities I've made

pretty much dead, I no longer has symptoms of Schizophrenia and I was the only one posting in that community :)

I have noticed how a lot of communities I participate in, not just ones I mod, have mostly me and one other person posting ^^; I am always grateful when I see people outside me and the other person, but I always wonder if it seems weird or desperate to say "hey welcome! Nice to see someone else here!" instead of just directly replying to the post.

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world just hit 600 subscribers over the weekend. A couple different people posting, which is nice. A modest number of comments and discussions, but it's a niche topic so not really surprising. I was made a mod for a while but renounced it, mostly bc I didn't want to take on the commitment. But it did make me consider that if only the mods are posting, newcomers might be reluctant to post. So it's good to have regular posters who are not mods.

Funny thing, after I clicked to give up mod powers, they returned after I signed in again next time. I think the other mods hadn't yet realized I gave them up? Anyway, I wrote some goth song lyrics about the feeling of signing in and then seeing that I had been made a mod again:

This dreaded label
is haunting my name
This dreaded label
like a sigil arcane

This tag! (it burns it burns it burns)
Like a dagger to the eye!
This tag! (it burns it burns it burns)
It corrodes me inside!
(unearthly shrieking)

(minimalist guitar solo)

lel that's a joke btw

I'm just waiting to be able to post pictures so I can create my snuff tobacco community. But I'm already posting some reviews elsewhere on the fediverse, on writeas. Unfortunately not federated with Lemmy