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  • For personal reason, I had to stop my weekly post in our Journaling community. So, even though we're still getting new subscribers (nearing 600) there is not much new content/comments being posted. I don't know for how long I will too busy to post myself I hope others will keep occasionally posting ;)

    • Is there maybe a more active more general community that could be used to avoid having the community relying only on you? Maybe !keepwriting@lemmy.world (not that it's that much active either looking at it now)

      • I'll let anyone decide what's best for them. My opinion is that journaling does not need to be the most active community (it's not a practice relying on short term/constantly changing trends, for some like me it's a lifelong habit) but it does need to have enough activity to feel welcoming enough... which something it looks like I did not manage to initiate, so far. I would also say I consider journaling a very specific way of writing I would not wish to see it mixed with a more 'public-focused' type of writing. Also, we've seen more than a doubling (x3 maybe?) of the subscribers in the 6 months or so I started posting content. To me, that's saying there is a real interest for a dedicated community. And imho, with a little more patience, it may start to feel more lively.

        But like I said, it's up to anyone to decide what they want to do it, and where. I'll keep an eye on the journaling community for the time being and hopefully I'll be able to quickly resume regular postings if no one else wants to do it, because like I keep saying: it's not my community, I don't own it. I'm just its janitor, trying to make it welcoming and get more people to visit and... use it ;)

        Maybe !keepwriting@lemmy.world (not that it’s that much active either looking at it now)

        That's a Lemmy issue, I'm afraid. We're not that many. And niche communities are the most impacted by that.

  • The May sumo tournament in Japan ended Saturday, and I was posting daily links to videos on !sumo@lemmy.world. According to trendingcommunities,

    • last March when I started doing this for the March tournament, we had 47 subscribers to start and 77 to end.
    • This tournament we had 83 subscribers to start and currently have 112 subscribers.

    It was a pretty good experience, it gave me a reason to watch the highlight videos without feeling like I was alone in the world doing so -- even tho there wasn't much discussion, there'd be a handful of upvotes for each post showing there were at least some readers/viewers.

    Last March I tried posting multiple links to youtube videos, one post per link. This got a bit confusing bc some of the videos were posted after a delay. So this tournament I just made one post like "videos for day 12 of the tournament" and put all the relevant links there, updating when the delayed ones came out. That worked a lot better. First, I was making "image" posts instead of "video" posts so I didn't have to worry about whether the thumbnail would be automatically generated, what it would be, whether it would propagate, etc. it did mean I had to find a good image from the highlights, but that was OK I liked watching the highlight videos as described above. Second, it gave me a "template" to make posts from (I just took the previous day's text and modified it) which was good bc I was usually doing it first thing in the morning and still kinda dazed.

    Anyway, next sumo tournament's in 2 months, and I hope I'm able to post about it again!

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