thegiddystitcher

@thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is a normal phrase in British English too. Today you learned!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm working on it, ok?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure anyone reading this in the UK is already aware of MSE but just in case: moneysavingexpert.com/…/savings-accounts-best-int…

  A quick glance suggests most of those really high ones are time-limited bonus offers, but other places are doing quite high interest in general e.g. Marcus is paying 4.75%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing lemmy-ui-next, an alternative Lemmy frontend built with NextJS!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Allow me to translate. It means our admin is a boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who enjoys seeing how the sausage is made, OP also has some devlogs up on YouTube, I’ve been following for a little while. youtube.com/@PaahtimoGames

  Congrats on the release!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could we have Alexandrite and Photon front-ends on lemm.ee?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I heard, Sunaurus had decided against hosting them due to maintenance and security concerns. Basically it would make his life more complicated, which is fair enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses a dating app⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Including whatever it was he said just before she stopped replying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have a new lemm.ee status page, including federation status, at status.lemm.ee!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks great, thanks for this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL the name James Kirk was inspired from James Cook.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Living in an area that has “James Cook is from round here” as basically its only defining characteristic just got a lot cooler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you even use twitter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use one account for looking at, sharing and chatting about cool craft projects, and another account to meet other small-time gamedevs and cheer each other on. Also ended up meeting someone from the #Eurovision tag irl last year when we ended up randomly seated right next to each other in the arena, which was a bit mad.

  I’ve never seen the point of social media either unless you’ve actually got something interesting to say or at the very least something in particular you want to see other people talk about. But what’s interesting kind of depends on the person.

  What is it you want to talk about? What is it you have to share? Jump into the hashtag feed for those things and make some friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy to help! I know it sounds kind of weird, posting from another platform. But if you look at it less as “how can I make MY community with MY name on it the BEST so everyone will worship ME” and more “how can I actually bring people together over a shared topic” it makes a lot of sense :)

  I do wish the integration was a bit better though. It’s got its quirks, to put it mildly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Counting down the days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sole mod (not the original creator, but took over when they went awol) for the knitting community at !knitting@lemmy.world, and I do my best to contribute a lot to the cross stitch & embroidery one at !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works too. This is coming from a history of running various niche online groups. So a few things I would advise:

  • First, just accept that some topics are too niche. They were too niche for Reddit as well, at one point. People got overexcited and wanted to mark their territory by setting up a ton of communities when they were new to Lemmy, but reality doesn’t work that way and a lot of those spaces just aren’t needed. We’d be better served combining posts from these into slightly more general combined communities, and perhaps leaving a sticky post in the tiny niche ones letting everyone know where to head to for that topic.

  But if your topic is big enough to in theory get decent traction:

  • Be grateful for what users you do have. You said you sometimes get “few” replies, so make sure you’re getting to know those people and replying to them and continuing the conversation where appropriate. You don’t need a lot of users, you just need a few engaged ones to make for a nice community.

  • Recruit your friends. You’re a Chiefs fan, you probably know other Chiefs fans. Get them interested.

  • Drop your community link wherever its relevant. People don’t like having to put effort into finding new communities but if they just happen to come across mention of it, they’ll click. Obviously I’m not saying spam, but there are plenty of sports fans here and it’s bound to come up in conversation.

  • Crosspost. Any posts you make to a Chiefs community are probably also relevant to the wider NFL communities or maybe fantasy football players. And again this just gives more people the chance to stumble across the fact that you exist.

  Ok these next couple are more involved, but they do work well!

  • Consider Mastodon. I have a craft-focused account there too, and if I have a question about knitting or cross stitch or whatever then the more answers I can get the better, right? So I use the fact that we can post from Mastodon, to a Lemmy community, combining the replies from both audiences in one thread. Example of what I mean here.

  • Create value. Could be by posting pillar content that’s actually useful (in your case could be some kind of statistical analysis, we all know the football nerds love it, but whatever will be long-term useful / interesting to your audience). Or it could be a regular community event or something ("predict the Chiefs wins/losses for the upcoming season and win something, etc etc).

  • Ask your existing users what they’d like to see from the community. Some things you try will hit and some will miss, but getting feedback is going to up your chances!

  That’s everything off the top of my head and it’s already a wall of text so I’ll stop there. It is absolutely difficult to be a mod, it can be a lot of work to get to the point of just having an active community that doesn’t need your input to keep rolling. But if your community see you trying, I think that goes a long way. Hope some of this was helpful!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else getting server issues?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fyi you’ve posted this at least 4 times by accident. But honestly no I haven’t noticed anything amiss, which isn’t very helpful for your situation sorry!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically when you add a content warning on Masto it’ll just display that content warning in people’s feeds but hide the actual content, unless they choose to click and expand. Blurs any attached images too. So you sort of know what you’re in for if something is marked “CW: pet loss” for example, and can choose whether that’s something you want to look at.

  I think there’s a setting somewhere to automatically expand CW posts if you’re not fussed about things like that, but it’s helpful for people who do have a common trigger.

  Pretty slick feature tbh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possible to use external image for community banner?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only even slightly possible way I can think of would maybe be to have a mod from an instance that has uploads enabled do it. Not sure if that would actually work, and upload to their server then federate out, or if it would try and upload straight to the community’s home instance and fail. But if you have a friend or an alt account it might be worth a go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨migrated to lemm.ee from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also search for communities at lemmyverse.net/communities which is a good way to find specific interests that don’t show up in All.

  Welcome to Lemmy and I hope you have a great time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate it that I muss all interesting low volume communities posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually do this with a few crafting communities that rarely get new posts, makes it easy to see when something pops up in one of them.

  It’s not ideal obviously and I do hope we get these sorts of features eventually, but in the meantime it’s a decent workaround for a very specific situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't understand the whole Twitter/Mastodon social media format⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t speak for Twitter as I wasn’t really on it, but Mastodon I pretty much use for the same topics as I use Lemmy, except if it’s a longer more discussion-wanting post it goes on one and if it’s a short casual posts it goes on the other. Don’t bother much with the home feed I just stick with my topics of interest.

  Often, I’ll post to Lemmy from Mastodon when something is relevant to both, which means I’m chatting to both groups at once in the replies.

  Right now there’s a communal crafting event going on over there with its own hashtag, and tons of people I’ve never interacted with before are taking part, so that’s fun and a nice wholesome time.

  It’s just a slightly different format for talking about the same stuff, from my pov.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been a great instance since day one, and it’s good to see you once again being so proactive. Thank you for the update!

  There are downsides with all kinds of moderation, but ultimately most of us accept that the internet can’t function as a true free-for-all. Absolutely in support of whatever you feel is necessary to keep the server safe, but please watch out for yourself too and make sure you’re asking for help where needed.

  p.s. anyone reading this who doesn’t donate to the server yet, here’s a reminder that that’s a thing you can do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone remember Xfire?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The gametime stats in Xfire were my first clue that I maybe needed to get off the PC once in a while and, as the kids say these days, touch grass.

  Was still kinda proud of myself though. Albeit a sort of shameful pride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨m/greece appearing empty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, we’re federated. It looks like you were the first person from lemm.ee to search for and subscribe to /m/Greece, so basically what happens is you’ll see new posts that get made but it doesn’t automatically go back and fetch ones from before you searched it the first time.

  If there are particular posts you want to chat in that haven’t been brought over, you can search for the post URL to force them to be indexed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Context button not working for anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already on Github although it doesn’t look like it’s as straightforward to narrow down as you might hope.