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
Lemmygrad currently has a main community as infrastructure, which is /c/communism. I agree it doesn’t do a good job in presenting the other communities available. Even as an admin, I do not understand the point of a communism community, since communism is already the premise of our website. So my suggestion would be to rename and repurpose this community to serve as a main hub for newcomers and active users to discover.
Thats probably better, and a lot of pressure off of me, lol
I do still have a game plan for the actual process, and if we could repurpose c/communism we wouldn’t have to worry about the first half of the first phase, yes I have phases planned out.
This is what I conjured up in past few hours:
Rallying Brigade (first month): This is where we regroup and populate old and new communities on Lemmygrad. Things we can do to help in this phase, is to actively participate in “Club Hub” (now we will use repurposed c/communism) and also try to bring in close comrades from IRL (to get the best bang for our time and energy) that are or have ML tendencies to Lemmygrad and have ‘em join Club Hub.
Active Recruiting (first 6ish months) Once we have use this infrastructure to populate communities on this “Club Hub” to keep Lemmygrad alive, we will start our advance onto the online sphere. I think our best bet is to flag down some influential ML content creators to funnel into Lemmygrad and “Club Hub”. This will be done on two fronts, on the broad end focusing on large communities, like The Big Three (Hakim, Yugopnik, and Second Thought) or on the specialized end, smaller lesser known creators but ones with a tighter community, (people like bloggers, youtubers, streamers, podcasts, twitter, etc). Also during this period. back here on this “Club Hub” we will switch to having communities represent themselves instead of forcing a “brigade” on them.
Passive Recruiting (first year) Then after these few months of the active recruiting phase, and Lemmygrad has numbers to start thriving rather just survive, then our “Club Hub” will transition into a passive recruitment board, something to check every once in while. Then eventually when Lemmygrad is self sufficient in populating and growing, our “Club Hub” will reside as relic of the Comeback of the Online Left.
Boy that got big, and I have lot more specifics if ya need. You’re admin, so you could just rename it yourself, right?
EDIT: I am keeping track of what communities people want, so we could either revive dead ones or create new ones. I am polishing off an idea of how we should “brigade” these fledgling communities. Do you want me to transfer my efforts on /c/communism, then?