Hello,

As everybody knows, content discovery on Lemmy can sometimes be a bit tricky.

To help smaller communities to get more activity, I launch this thread for people to promote the communities they are active one.

One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

This could be a weekly thread, but let’s see how it goes

Finally, [email protected] and [email protected] are communities that you can subscribe to to see updates about communities

    • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Makes sense! How many people are usually active on your communities, per week for instance?

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        The most active is probably the news community, [email protected] with 80 active users per week according to the sidebar. I think a good portion of them are users on external instances.

  • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    [email protected] - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

    [email protected] - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

    [email protected] - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.

    [email protected] - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

    [email protected] - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @[email protected] 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, [email protected] - links to short stories online in all genres

    • mke@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Were the community rules copied straight out of Reddit or something? 3 and 9 are a bit funny.

      • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        9 has been updated (the original one is “no link to Reddit”), but 3 is indeed funny

      • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Pretty sure it was copied from the subreddit, back when the community was created 😅

    • e0qdk@reddthat.comEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      kbin.social has been totally down for a while. I don’t think your posts are actually federating when you post into a kbin.social magazine right now; the votes you are getting are probably from other lemmy.world users only.

        • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          @[email protected], you might have been posting only for LW users for a while :-/

          this is unfortunately correct for the time being.

          while we still have aggressive rate limits in place to limit federation impact from kbin bugs, which started with the measures that @[email protected] mentioned, this wouldn’t impact activities coming from lemmy.world towards kbin.social.

          while kbin.social used to break down every now and then based on what i saw people comment, service was typically restored within a short period of time. more recently however, any time i’ve looked at kbin.social in the past couple weeks, it’s only been showing an error page. i suspect it may have been unavailable the entire time, not just at the times i looked at it. looking at our federation stats, the last successfully sent activity from lemmy.world to kbin.social was dated 2024-06-18 00:12:25 UTC, although the actual send date may have been later. successful is also not necessarily guaranteed, as some error codes might be misinterpreted as success due to how servers can be set up and how response status codes are interpreted on the sending side.

          if activities sent from lemmy.world don’t reach kbin.social then the posts and comments won’t be relayed to other instances. this is generally an issue in activitypub when instances are down, as such “orphaned” (at the time) communities effectively become local-only communities, isolated islands on all instances that already know about them.

          at this point, the last time we’ve received an activity submission (federation traffic) from kbin.social as on 18th of June, so it seems like it was working for some time on that day and has been broken since.

          at the start of this month, @[email protected] (kbin.social owner, main kbin dev) said that he was going to hand over management of kbin.social to someone else, as he’s currently unable to take care of it. presumably this hasn’t happened yet.

    • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

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

    • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Hello,

      Thank you for sharing.

      I clicked on the two first ones, and the last posts seem to be from 28 days ago (the OP suggested to only post communities with at least a post in the last 7 days), and the kbin.social link sends to an error page.

      Are you planning to move those communities to another instance?

      Edit: federation issue on my side

      Edit2: It might indeed be an issue, see other comments

  • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    If you enjoy reading, [email protected] is pretty active place to discuss what you’re reading and review it or get recommendations.

    I try to post significant price drops routinely to [email protected] as well. I mostly post ones that I have heard good things about / read myself and really enjoyed and are valid at all 3 big US ebook retailers, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon at the same time or Humble Bundles. There’s no rule against others posting deals they endorse for other regions or other books, I just wanted to avoid it being a firehouse of spammy links and I only shop US Stores.

    • hitstun@fedia.io
      3·
      9 hours ago

      Cool! Thanks for the Floating Is Fun shout out! I wish that CSS would federate to other instances, even if it’s just a header image like Lemmy communities get. You Lemmy users can still use interfaces like Photon and Voyager, and it looks great on those.

      As for me, I like these ones: [email protected] - I comment my puzzle results in there everyday [email protected] - Good reliable world news that covers important events [email protected] - I’m American and this is better than most of our news outlets [email protected] - Good single-serving comics in my feed [email protected] - Sometimes I throw video game music at them @[email protected] - Not a community, but I end up following MentalEdge to a lot of the communities they frequent

    • Blaze@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Thank you for your comment. I really like the !floatingisfun one, it looks even better with the custom CSS!

  • maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    [email protected]

    It’s for learning rust (the programming language) and the lemmy code base itself as a sort of “reading club”. If you’re the type of person who might be interested there’s a good chance you’ve heard of it already. We’re currently working through The Book (conventional learning resource) through a couple of Twitch streams and regular posts/discussions.

    More collaborative learning activity is plenty welcome!

      • maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        48 minutes ago

        Cheers! Huuuge amount of credit goes to sorrybookbroke and jayjader running their twitch streams every week!

      • plactagonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        I am glad that you like it. It would be nice to have little more traffic but post quality is more important so I can’t complain.