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.
Gardener club so everyone can know how to grow comically large ammounts of GRAIN
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This, but unironically. I bought tons of books on agroecology to study how to grow food in a sustainable way
I don’t know how to link, but there’s a community called The Revolutionary Garden on here!
Start with a “!” and it will attempt to auto-fill.
Also we can buy comical amount of potassium nitrate
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.
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?
I hope to see more theory discussion and perhaps study groups in the future
I’d love for a community about nature/birding, or maybe one about learning Russian.
Yea I lowkey also wanted a gardening or Tea community, I love both and I feel that if there’s an Irish community, then a tea community would be a fitting addition
Okay guys, any ideas for communities to make or any communities in need of populating?
Now that I actually got the ball rolling on this, time is of the essence. I plan on marketing this everyday for about 2 weeks, then for another 2 weeks every other day, and then once a week for a few months, then solidify into once a month.
Once we start building up a population on Club Hub then we could plan to “brigade” our own communities to populate them. This way we could have a central area for organizing and marketing communities without relying on the “Trending Communities” area or clogging up GZD.
The reason we will need this, is unlike reddit, we don’t have the numbers or the time to build up on its own.
I hope this works!!!
This was my first post on Club Hub but might as well add it here!
Also how can I add mods to Club Hub? I know I am not the most reliable person and with the way how things are going, my access to wifi is limited, lol.
Beer brewing?
Would except I’m seventeen, lol
Oh Comrade, My Comrade!!
Ah, thats good… That’s real good
Okay I took matters into my hands, to be honest I have no idea what I’m doing but I knowit needs to get done.
