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!

  • canthidium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.