So the mods of a few of the cooking/food communities have come together to try to help eachother and our communities grow. You may have noticed we have started linking other communities on the side bar. And we are discussing other forms of cross-promotion. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment them below.
For now, we are encouraging our users to subscribe and cross post when they can to related communities. We want our communities and Lemmy as a whole to grow and we need users and content. More content = more users that may become interested to subscribe. We are also asking our users to take part and post. There’s a very high percentage of lurkers and that’s perfectly fine, but we need people to post and share. That’s the only way we will be able to keep this train rolling. So please post and cross-post when you can and help us grow our communities. Thank you!
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Besides what is linked in the side bar, you may also check out [email protected]. If anyone else knows more, we’d love to hear about them.
Thank you
Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
Looks like the sidebar has been updated with some of the other communities. All us mods of culinary communities have been discussing together how we can all grow and definitely the main thing is just posting in relevant communities. I think we’re all pretty lax on what gets posted as long as it’s just not relevant at all. We understand Lemmy is growing and hardcore gatekeeping is definitely not needed, especially currently. Hope to see your posts.
Interesting, i run and mod [email protected] that meant for a place for Malaysian to post their food pic when the instance is set up. Used to had more people posting but currently it’s mostly just me posting stuff i ate from time to time and also news related to food. I’ll link up all the community at the side bar from at my end when i got the time.
I had the same issue with my community (PS5) and a sister community (Playstation). My community was much more active but niche compared to the other community. Ultimately I was handed control of the sister community (PlayStation) by the former mods and both communities voted overwhelmingly to merge under the one with the larger umbrella.
I think this is something you should consider down the road. It may not be the best for now as foodporn and shittyfoodporn and recipes are all very different, but I believe lemmy is working on a flair/tagging system. When that goes live you could unify under c/food and then use tags so that users can set up the filters on their end. If someone only wants recipes, they can filter out shittyfood and foodporn. If someone only wants shittyfood, they filter the rest, etc.
Best of luck on all this. I am still working on managing the very large transition we just did. And we will be looking into mandatory flairs when the feature goes live to help those only looking for certain content.
Edit: I am subscribed to all of the food communities. I don’t do much cooking but I love the food! I’ll be sure to vote more frequently
Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
Very interesting idea and it’s something we have been talking about, especially since Lemmy is very fractured. It would probably be beneficial to combine some communities. Hopefully Lemmy grows and we can easily support the most niche communities.
I don’t do much cooking but I love the food! I’ll be sure to vote more frequently
Please do, and comment often. We love getting involved in the discussions.
Love this! I recently started up [email protected], as the previous one vanished out of thin air. Got over 100subs in just a day! Was very happy to see so many partake in the joy of foraging. Hopefully more will come to share their findings. There are loads to be harvested from the natural world, that would be great additions to ones foodporn 🙌
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That’s awesome, I just subbed to this community after stumbling on a post in the general feed. Looking forward to everyone’s posts, and I’ll share when I can!
Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
Awesome! This is exactly what we want to see. Thanks for joining!
No offense meant, but if we don’t have enough active contributors to make the /c/foodporn community active, what good is fragmenting a fledging community and losing the visibility gained from posting in one area with high traffic?
Surely the strategy here should be to build a critical mass of followers in one community, then split into category specific communities based on feedback from the users on what is or is not desired. Organic growth into multiple topics vs splintering a community that’s basically my food plus or minus a half dozen posts a week. Someone wining that they get no traffic doesn’t really incentive me to post in their communities.
I have the same feeling.
We have experienced everyone creating their obscure communities for the last few months, but it is obvious that due to the size of Lemmy, only communities which are generic enough can get enough traction to survive
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It’s a political thing.
This post has me seriously considering no longer contributing to any communities.
Edit: Mods can read the original messages, right?
I have no idea about the politics, I think you have to admit that the food communities have not transferred from Reddit. Even the pizza subs are kinda dead. Maybe it will just take time, or maybe they won’t find traction here. Idk, but I know I’m not going back to the other place. Hopefully it happens here, if it doesn’t, then I will randomly post into the void about random projects.
Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
I do agree with that strategy, but I don’t think there’s any going back at this point. When the migration happened, people all over Lemmy created the same communities and some took off, some didn’t. Most of our culinary communities weren’t created during this time, but later when we found a topic we wanted to have a community around. I think also, most of our communities are generic enough to where the only next step in merging would be to just stick everything under [email protected] (I see that community has been abandoned as well).
what good is fragmenting a fledging community and losing the visibility gained from posting in one area with high traffic?
I don’t understand your logic on this. You don’t have to pick one community and ignore the others. Be part of them all and contribute where it fits. No one is saying you have to stop posting in one because it fits the other more. Post in all of them where it’s relevant. And if some communities die off, then that’s fine. It’s all an experiment in my eyes.
Someone wining that they get no traffic doesn’t really incentive me to post in their communities.
You said no offense meant, and then decided to be negative in your last sentence, but to respond to this; No one is whining, we are just doing what we can to be inclusive. We are just trying to help eachother out and hopefully we all grow. I don’t know what your other post about it being political was about and I don’t know what you’re finding so negative about us sharing eachothers communities. None of us are complaining. We’re just trying to spread awareness of other communities and hope that everyone takes part and Lemmy can grow to be a fun place to be.
Where would be the best place to ask about kitchen knives?
Sorry I’m late to respond, been under the weather as well as visiting family recently. I’m one of the mods of [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
I’m not sure if there are any knife specific communities, but [email protected] also includes cooking tips so I’m sure we have members that are knowledgeable. Or there’s also [email protected] for general cooking related questions.
Please don’t crosspost. When I see the same posts on multiple places I just block the small communities
