@PugJesus@lemmy.world it’s time to “cross the Rubicon” to full federation!

the mythic Third Temperature which only muppets can feel.

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I’m seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

!wavemusic@lemmy.world - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

!fedigrow@lemm.ee - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @Blaze@reddthat.com has been posting a weekly thread on “how is your [niche] community doing?” which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, !shortstories@literature.cafe - links to short stories online in all genres

I thought the swiss people seemed sometimes kinda "rude"or maybe a better word for it “cold” and a little annoyed

I have some Swiss-American relatives, and I think this is cultural. They just have a different set of indicators, they’re not going to be grinning and hugging.

I have a friend who went to London and just ate at Whole Foods all the time. So, vegans can survive.

“smoke copium, non-resident”?

This would make an awesome episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”

visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).

This will be a key moment towards Lemmy’s growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it’s so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out !fedigrow@lemm.ee, @Blaze@reddthat.com has started posting a weekly thread on “How is your niche community doing?”

if you took the world and seperated its humans by intelligence, the “idiot” group is going to be much bigger than the “PhD” group. Like…by a lot.

No… you’d have a bell curve. But even that assumes you have a single good measure of intelligence.

I kind of agree with the rest of your post, but I would have worded it a bit differently, emphasizing that people who found it difficult to start using Lemmy might still be worth having around. Also, I don’t think “as large as Reddit” or “small niche unknown” are our only options.

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat a machine learning algorithm.” - traditional Native American saying.

Ellison was trolling. He did that a lot.

I love how he’s gesturing so wildly that his eye-jowls are flapping.

Wish they’d had a dance-off with the crazy frog brothers.

See, kids? You don’t need A.I. to be creepy af.

ikr that was my first thought: “I hope they survive.”

Yeah but you’re right.

Related: the mod of !movies@lemmy.world recently posted a request for an additional mod/poster. This is the sort of the thing that community “drivers” should do rather than just walking away, but I think sometimes they just walk away.

Thanks for the thoughtful response, there’s plenty there that I’ve been thinking over.

Hey, I think I saw you post on that “how to get a bit more of positivity” conversation recently. I make a post there listing a bunch of communities that were not news, memes, or tech. And I realized that most of them were powered by a single person. So they’d often have a reasonable number of upvotes, and occasional discussion, but a single person would do all/most of the posting.

That’s probably not a good thing. I mean, if a specific dozen people left lemmy, we’d be left with only news, memes, and tech communities. And you’re talking about some of the pressures that can make these “community drivers” leave. I can think of a couple possible solutions:

• help those community drivers to find backups or co-drivers
• let people know that it’s OK to just take over a dormant community and start posting

I’m not sure how to implement this, though.