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  • !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is going great. We've now gone past the 2500 members mark which is astonishing considering when I started it I didn't know if we'd get anyone! I've brought a 2nd mod on and she's already being amazing! Predictably got some aggressive men unhappy cos we're women only.

  • Here's a great example of how a regularly-occurring post can help grow a community. On !vampires@lemmy.zip @Zagorath@aussie.zone is posting the novel Dracula "as it happens" on a calendar. It's an epistolary novel, so they've posted the chapters for May 3, 4, and 5 so far and will post the remaining chapters over the next couple months as that day occurs. (The first 2 chapters are pretty short so you can catch up easily if you want to read along!)

    • A little more context for anyone not aware. Epistolary just means it's like the book equivalent of the Blair Witch Project. It claims to be written not by some outside author like most books, but to be the literal transcriptions of the characters' diary entries, letters, news articles, and phonograph recordings. All of these are of course dated in-universe, with the first of Jonathan Harker's diary entries taking place on 3rd May. So we're reading through it as it happens.

      Days 1 and 2 are very short, and there isn't any entry on 6 May, so you've got plenty of time to catch up if you want to join in on 7th May.

      Minor correction: the days don't actually match up to "chapters" of the book. Chapter 1 is made up of 3, 4, and half of 5 May. Chapter 2 is the 2nd half of 5 May, 7 May, and the 1st half of 8 May. I'm not 100% sure as I've never read the book this way before, but I believe later on, doing it this way will actually mean we read it slightly out of the normal reading order, too, especially as relates to the news articles and shifting POVs.

  • I made a new community today !stupid_questions@lemmings.world. It is a simple community, appreciating absurd questions (not in my community, but the recently asked question 100 men vs gorrila also fits in it). Due to nature of community, it can actually be more interlinked with other communities, for example the gorilla question would be also fit in a biomechanics community ( i do not think we have one yet) but maybe biomechanics community does not have any (or many) subscribers, then stupid_questions folk can also join them. This somewhat happened (to soon to say much about this, all hypothesising) with first post, about brand new sentences, which is now cross posted to linguistics community. I think this can plug in a "humor" "hole" for many communities. General asking communities definitely do appreciatie humor, but may not be "nerdy" enough (i do not like using this word, especially on lemmy, where i could practically categorise everyone using lemmy to be a nerd, if you have a better one please do tell) to willingly subscribe to a "absurdism" community. My guess would be that people who appreciate absurd stuff, might have a stronger correlation with those who are interested in academicc disciplines. Maybe it is a wrong hunch, but my time on internet for however long i have been on it suggests that.

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