The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work).

To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions):

  • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it)
  • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain)
  • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share)
  • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics)
  • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated)

A community building guide has been created. Check it out and let us know if you have any suggestions/additions/changes.


Started Communities:

Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users:

  • Mahjong
    • missingno @fedia.io
  • Deer (images)
    • Auster @thebrainbin.org
  • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces)
    • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip
    • Potential cross-posting: !topview@lemmy.world
  • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale)
    • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here.
    • billionsandbillions @piefed.social
  • Theater (English language community)
    • 1517m4a @lemmy.pt
  • Video Game Randomizers
    • Potential instances: retrofed, retrolemmy
    • die4ever @retrolemmy.com

Suggested Feeds:

  • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital))
    • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc.
    • billionsandbillions @piefed.social

Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way):


Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post.


Edit: Punctuation change.

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Avoiding burnout is a high priority, and I’ve come close at times, so that’s a factor, too.

Yeah, I think that's priority one, or should be, for community builders. Glad you're taking care of yourself and not overdoing it :)

Sometime back I talked about a group ‘pledge-posting’ project that had its challenges in terms of coordinating people on such a venture, but today I realised that a web tool would probably be much preferable.

Better yet if such a mini-service could be integrated in to PieFed or Lemmy, so that one could get ‘the list’ and relevant notifications simply via their regular login. One stop shopping and all that.

I'm not sure if it's open-source (didn't quickly find source code searching), but "The Button" has interactions with users' Fediverse accounts and can send notifications/messages after they sign up. So, it might be worth reaching out to Demigodrick@piefed.zip to see if you could view his code or if he's interested in collaborating on your idea.

Via integration into the threadiverse, I've found Pylova the most responsive to feature requests and Piefed seem to following Pylova's lead in several features (so perhaps backdoor into adoption by a larger portion of the threadiverse). So, might be worth reaching out to Mia (quokka@quokk.au) to see if she has any interest in working on that feature.

My guess is the easiest and fastest route would be if you could get Demigodrick to put up a service (stripped down features of "The Button") for you/users.

Edit: for anyone interested in better understanding his idea, I found the last time we discussed the idea: https://piefed.zip/comment/7102549

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    I'm... just not sure what to do with all that. I've checked out the things you've suggested, and they all seem to be non-starters for one reason or another.

    Also, you didn't seem to really understand my posting concept in the first place, which I posted about several times, before.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm confused now too. I think I understand your idea and goal. You and other users would pledge/signup to post to different communities at given intervals or based on last activity in the community. For the web-service, you'd want a place to sign up for communities, talk with each other, and get notifications/reminders (notifications within the web-service and via your threadiverse accounts).

    "The Button" site/game can do all those actions. It's not designed for it and it's not its purpose, but the individual actions all exist and are utilized by and within the game. Utilizing its code, a new web-service could be built providing for all your requirements, without having to start from scratch.

    You had mentioned integration within the threadiverse. The Pylova approach I mentioned would be that integration approach. It would have no relation with "The Button" game approach. You would need to convince Mia/the Pylova team to take on the task and build it out for you.

    Feel free to let me know where the mis-connect is and I can take another shot at trying to help you.

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    Sorry, but this is effectively kinda like..
    "Two ships passing in the night?"

    I'm not saying 'you're wrong' upon any of that, but it's also kinda like you don't remember what I said in the past. And I've added like 10k words in the hopes that your project succeeds.

    For the time being, I'd recommend we disconnect.

    And so shall we do? 🙂

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 21 hours ago

    I'm more confused now, but it's fine if we disconnect.

    To be clear, I don't and didn't intend my responses to be passive aggressive, if that's how they come off.

    Anyways, I wish you luck in your endeavor :)

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