How are you doing with your communities?

It's very slow because there are basically no Koreans on Lemme, I'm not even a mod on this community but 90% of the posts are mine, the mod/admin basically never posts, very few comments but at least some upvotes :D
!korea@lemmy.funami.tech
- Have you promoted it to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ? :)
  
  Now I did.
- just joined :D
  someone I know studied Korean here in Europe and had a year in Seoul too. There will definitely be updates I'll like. Thanks for posting, As a silent reader I will appreciate <3

Quite happy with the grow of !ask@lemm.ee
Thank you @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al and other people who post there
- Thanks Blaze you've worked hard and it shows. It's a really nice place to hang out,

Getting a bit frustrated about the BuyEuropean / BuyfromEU situation. Now there's even another one, !BuyFromEU@europe.pub. I tried to bring the argument that too many communities on a niche topic splinter discussion with the admin, but they still want to keep their community open.
!europePub@europe.pub for people interested
- Don't be (it will not help you and it won't change a thing). Not forgetting that they're free to do whatever they want. No one is right or wrong, it's just... not ideal as it is ;)
  Also, seeing how this is becoming kinda trendy topic relayed outside Lemmy I would not be surprised to see even more appearing. Say 'use-european' 'Support-european' 'made-in-Europe' (this one has my preference :p) and their obvious mirrors 'made-in-the-EU', 'support-the-EU', and so on.
  I don't know about the other users but I can't be bothered with too many similar communities (2 is really a maximum as far as I'm concerned, after that it's just a mess that requires way too much time/energy from me to get anything out of it). So, I will ignore trends and focus on those communities whose moderation/participation I appreciate the most ;)
  
  My main frustration comes from the fact that instead of building a community together, we're competing with the 3 different versions of the same community
- Have you considered asking the similar communities to link to their counterparts in the sidebar? At least that way no matter what one you discover first you can find the rest pretty easily.
  
  The usually do, but that doesn't address the main issue: discussion splintering
- A topic I've thought about too. (just joined lemmy and was bit confused to why they dont merge somehow)
  EDIT: Maybe be more distinct and communicate in very aggressive ways what's unique that the other community doesnt have. Thoughts?
  
  EDIT: Maybe be more distinct and communicate in very aggressive ways what’s unique that the other community doesnt have. Thoughts?
  In this case, all three are almost identical
  
  Sometimes they do state it somewhere, either in the community info or in the stickied post. Other times when the alternative is on an instance that some users distrust then it's more implied.

Happy to see the TV communities consolidated on !Television@lemm.ee
@simple@lemm.ee, thank you for your post there!
- No prob
- And the subs have gone from like 100 to 250 in a day (or less than) 👍
  
  More than 550 monthly active users 👍

Things have felt pretty damn good around crazypeople.online but lets review-
!eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online Still tops the list. Last week we had just over 100 subscribers, this week we're sitting at >160 and the activity around the community shows it. Fucking bravo everyone. Legends, all of you.
!weedtime@crazypeople.online Has a mirror trajectory. Last week just under 100 subscribers, this week we are just under 160 awesome people to hang out with. Activity is up here as well. Great stuff!
!loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online moves up a spot this week from around 60 subscribers last week, up to nearly 90 this week. @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com is churning out low effort masterpieces like a kindergarten class with finger paints. What more could we ask for? Whenever you guys are done eating paste come show him your appreciation and hang your own low effort artwork on the wall!
!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online moves down a slot but still saw impressive growth for our small instance. Last week we had around 60 subscribers and this week we're over 70. The activity is up here too with weekly trading opportunities (IT'S TODAY!) posted by @Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world and @ladel@feddit.uk filling us in with news and updates. Come check out the cool stuff we've been pulling and maybe pickup a card or two you've been hunting!
!autoracing@crazypeople.online is still working on breaking into the 50 subscriber club. With the return of F1 we've had more of that type of content being posted, but anything and everything auto racing is more than welcome.

!journaling@sh.itjust.works keeps on growing (437 users, today), but still very little participation.
I'm counting on the new subscribers to make a difference in the long run as I imagine most of the old user base is AFK like the original admin/creator (there were approx 200-230 users when I was given the keys to the community, and it had been hibernating for at the very least a whole year before I started posting). Hopefully with the number of new users steadily growing, and them becoming less 'new' a few should start participate more ;)

Thank you @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com for your posts on !imaginary@reddthat.com !

!lego@lemm.ee still doing fine

On !sumo@lemmy.world things are still going pretty good!
We're up to 78 subscribers from 47 when I started posting 10 days ago during the March tournament. For a niche comm, that's solid. Occasionally others are making comments and 1 person made a post.
Unfortunately lemmy.world updated their server software and now the thumbnail images that I was making for youtube videos don't propagate there... And sumo is a very visual sport, so I think that's a major loss to casual browsers who might be enticed to check it out. I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world to make the posts from there (since I think the thumbnails work on the same server they're posted on?) but am still trying to make that happen.
Weirdly, one of my lemmy posts was federated to Mastodon? Check this out: https://mastodon.social/@Sergio@slrpnk.net/114166860518065085 It's not something I intentionally did so I don't know why that one was federated and not the others. HYPOTHESIS: Maybe because @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip commented on it and maybe lemmy.zip has some setting that does it automatically? Also noted that my response to tigeruppercut's comment did not federate to mastodon. Not sure wtf is going on there.
In other news, on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world things are still relatively active. Most of the recent posts are by @Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world, and I'm not posting unless there are at least two other posts since my last post. There were a couple other people posting in the last 2 weks and commenting occasionally tho. Luckily Bandcamp thumbnail images are automatically made and working OK.
- maybe lemmy.zip has some setting that does it automatically
  Hey, I got the @ notification from your comment this time. I don't have a mastadon acct so I'm not sure, but I haven't seen any announcement about zip posts/comments auto-reposting over there. When I click your link it takes me to a redirect page on mastadon that goes back to lemmy. Anyway, thanks for posting so diligently over there this basho. I hope the sumo board doesn't find that dondonsumo youtuber anytime soon-- so many accounts have been taken down over the years despite them not putting out any official way to watch outside Japan (except the NHK highlights).
  BTW you see the dude in the white suit and fedora sitting ringside every day for the past week? Not easy getting those tix! (I found him in the bg of a pic over on reddit)
  
  I hope the sumo board doesn’t find that dondonsumo youtuber anytime soon
  I think dondon got taken down once; this is his second account. I'm inspired by the fact that he edits his videos in a few short hours after the day's bouts are done!
  (except the NHK highlights).
  The NHK highlights are not bad... the commentary's in English and pretty good. My main gripe with it is they delay it a day before releasing (and don't seem to release over the weekend?) My fave way of watching is https://www.twitch.tv/midnightsumo because I can chat with people then, but it's tough staying up that late.
  BTW you see the dude in the white suit and fedora sitting ringside every day for the past week? Not easy getting those tix! (I found him in the bg of a pic over on reddit)
  Yeah! There was also a guy all in yellow a couple days ago, someone on midnightsumo said he'd been there all day from the very first bouts! Part of the fun is people-watching.

Sort of a reversal of last time, !haiku@lemm.ee has more or less stayed constant at 78 subscribers, while !fakealbumcovers@lemm.ee is only 3 away from 100, and has had a few posts from other people so far. Did try to reach out to the albumartporn community mod, but didn't get a reply yet.
Still happy with the overall progress, though.
- I immediately subbed to the haiku comm :)
  
  Thanks!

I felt disheartened a bit ago because I posted discussion questions sometimes on !otomegames@ani.social and did not get any bites besides my own starter comment answering my own question (not in the post body so as not to elevate my own opinion above the others, and posted also to encourage people to post: 1 comment is easier to speak up with than 0, I think, because that 1 comment might give you something to engage with if the post itself did not). I posted discussion questions in several communities today, including !otomegames@ani.social, got bites, and I'm delighted reading all the responses.
(in !pokemon@lemm.ee, !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de, and one in !tycoon@lemmy.world that I crossposted to !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works)
- Sorry to hear 😔