Hey Comrades, Sorry for the clickbaity title but I was realizing something over the past couple days. I feel we are on the teeter totter of making or breaking for Lemmygrad. Due to the quarantine and silencing of anti-western perspectives, we have momentum going on in Lemmygrad! That’s great but, we should do better organizing to keep it running instead of just 1. Commenting with Leftist on Ukraine or 2. Politely circle jerking (I believe this is fine and builds solidarity but there’s much more we could do in and out of this bubble.)
When this war passes and we have nothing to solidly comment on, Lemmygrad will slowly evaporate, hell look at the activity pre-GenZedong quarantine. To combat this we need one community here to act as our artery for other communities, I don’t know like with the name, Club Hub or something. The “Join Community” area in the top right is cool, but it does not hold up at all. There’s communities that you’ll see and think “sweet!” but you click on 'em and they’re dead, and anyone subscribed is just twiddling thumbs waiting for someone to say something, and since no one does, that community with potential dies.
Now once we get this nucleus of communities set up, we could start populating more, well not necessarily niche, but not GZD level of areas. For example, I was thinking about something like a Gardening community: The most efficient and latest means of production for food; hydroponics, aquaponics, Microgreens, permaculture, cricket farming, mushroom farming, even traditional. Basically the things needed for a quality community farm, some overall knowledge for real world benefits and something maybe, let’s say, our less forefront type comrades could manage.
TLDR: Sorry if this is losing track but I guess what I’m saying is this: We wouldn’t be able to keep Lemmygrad alive or support needed but less “fun” communities, without a main community as infrastructure for organizing different areas to populate.
Oh wait just to make sure this gets the scene, just comment something instead of just upvoting, hmm what seems fun, okay how about “Oh Captain, My Captain!!” or something else
This might be a little overbearing, but I’m gonna go ahead and do it because your post convinced me of the importance of it.
Right now, when you sign up to lemmy, it defaults your view to
Subscribed. So far pretty much everyone only subscribes to GZD, and doesn’t see posts from other communities. I’m going to change this toLocalfor all existing users, so that new and fun communities can grow.But do you think the Club Hub would still have some practicality to it? even with the local viewing, it would still be a solid base for communities to organize, especially ones that need some prodding to get started, such as I don’t know, like an area for a specific political party. A way to get discussion started on that platform without the awkward beginning phase of no posts. Is this making sense? I hope so.
Also I’m flattered, it feels good to help the community! Cheers!
For sure! I def do think it’d be a good idea to make posts on there about new communities, and organize different groups of them. Thx for making this post.
Is there a way you admins could sticky one of my posts about organizing on Club Hub or repurpose /c/communism? Just to make things easier?
What I would do, and I think we should encourage, is that similar to lemmy.ml, every time there’s a new community, do an announcement on !communism@lemmygrad.ml . Or if you want to announce a collection of communities. We could also sticky a post about some specific communities if ppl have some in mind.
Yeah I was thinking of surveying what people wanted, I go into depth here where after a week or so, we have this list of communities to prepare posts for, then at the end of the week we would all post on those communities we have picked out, sort of a jump start if you will. Now I’m wondering if I should pursue populating Club Hub or repurposing /c/communism, maybe both, but it’s best to focus on one area. Is this along the lines of what you are thinking?
EDIT: I guess what I’m trying to say is, I’m trying to set up our Club Hub whatever that form takes place, as a way to recover the dead or dying communities.