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  • I have stolen the idea of posting a weekly thread, as an encouragement for people to participate in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works

    What surprises me is that the number of subscribers is constantly growing (330 last time I checked, so more than a hundred people more than when I started posting), but not many are willing to discuss much. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what. You're more than welcome to share your opinion and suggestions ;)

    • but not many are willing to discuss much

      Probably the 90-9-1 rule at work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

      • Something Like that, indeed.

        Also, it could be because many of the longtime subscribers are not there anymore. I mean, the community was completely inactive for a year or so (and even its creator doesn't seem to be available anymore). So maybe we're much less than 330 and more like 100. I can't tell but I would think so.

      • Interesting! This rule is new to me. Pretty curious about the ratio for a platform such as lemmy.

    • The will to post is there but the amount of journaling I do is zero and will remain so. I would post some of my PKMS stuff there if I did any this week, but right now I have not added anything to that.

      I could put effort into contributing to my PKMS specifically to have stuff to post on the Fediverse but I also have things I need to do in my real life.

      • Also: if anyone is wondering I'm not sad or anything that I can't get more people to participate. I'm only mentioning the few participation as an information regarding my attempt to revitalize that community. I will just keep on trying for the time being (to tell you everything, I gave myself at least 6 months before deciding if it's worth insisting, more likely a whole year as I realize Lemmy is small and that community is so niche).

        And if it ends up not working? Well, my attempt will have failed, that's no big deal and it wont prevent me from keeping journaling on my own and probably to post stuff from time to time ;)

      • Don't worry, I know you're willing to participate and that's perfectly fine if you can't.

        Don't worry either about participating into the PKMS community instead as I would love to see more content shared over there too, even though I'm no Mod there. Journaling & actually using a PKMS are two things I consider essential to my creative and intellectual well-being (I would not dare say 'efficiency' ;). Tools that are way too often underused when not completely ignored. So, by all means, if you feel like sharing PKMS content I'll be very happy to read it :)

    1. GOOD: Someone recommended to me the other day an automated posting aid, which would be an enormous help in my being able to "drip" daily content to my sublemmy via a bot, leaving me space and time to work on longer-form posts.
    2. BAD: A week or two ago I realised that Imgur had been dropping my content over a surprisingly short delay period (~six months), breaking likely the majority of older posts. I think I'll slowly be able to restore at least the lead images, but with something like 400 posts to get to, it's going to be a PITA, and going to take time, daggit.
    3. GOOD: Lemm.ee's issues with not accepting image uploads (I and others still have no idea why, given that our host admin has pretty much retired from interacting with the users) have been thankfully easing off lately, allowing me to work on stuff like recovering from step 2 and restoring some whole posts here and there.
    4. BAD: Restoring multiple images posts is... ugh, going to be a real slog that will probably never get done properly. First, because somehow I seem to have misplaced a certain amount of the original image content, second, because it takes a lot more time than simply restorying a post's lead image, and third, because lemme.ee only accepts up to 500k images (and bless 'em simply for that!), which unfortunately isn't always up to displaying full pages properly.
    5. GOOD: There have been a few user posts recently, which is always nice to see, and gives me hope that maybe just maybe the sublemmy can be self-sustaining one day. 🙂
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