Follow up to this post from a couple years ago in light of the extended downtime of mander.xyz. What space communities currently exist? • !space@lemmy.world (closed, redirects to !space@mander.xyz) • !space@lemmy.ml (active poster, sporadically active moderator) • !space@sopuli.xyz (dormant, active moderator) • !space@lemmy.science.social (single-admin instance) • !space_astronomy@piefed.social (new community, active moderator) What astronomy communities currently exist? • !astronomy@lemmy.world (active posters, inactive moderator) • !space_astronomy@piefed.social (new community, active moderator) ——— Re: Community naming ("Space" vs. "Spaceflight" vs. "Astronomy") I think that "space" is the most general term, with "astronomy" and "spaceflight" being subsets. Examples: • Interesting data from a telescope? Astronomy and space, but not spaceflight. • A new GPS satellite is launched? Spaceflight and space, but not astronomy. • The Perseverance rover drills into a neat rock on Mars? Space, but not really astronomy or spaceflight. • A new space telescope is launched? Definitely all three. ——— Thoughts on which would be best to move to? My votes would lean slightly towards !space@sopuli.xyz and !astronomy@lemmy.world, but I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts.

1. Quick Overview - What is the Fediverse? 2. Quick Overview - What is the Threadiverse? 3. Quick Overview - Communities 4. Community Building 4.1. Community Reach 4.2. Sustainable Posting 4.3. Getting Interactions/Comments 4.4. Helpful Knowledge ——— 1. Quick Overview - What is the Fediverse? Fediverse: a collection of social networking services that communicate with each other using a common protocol (ActivityPub). • Relative Example (email): users of one email service such as Gmail can still send emails to users of another service such as Outlook. Likewise users on one instance of the Fediverse may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in the Fediverse. Decentralized Structure: allows any individual or organization to host a Fediverse software using their own servers. • There is no form of centralized governance or moderation. Instances: a server that runs a Fediverse software. • Every instance is independent, and can set its own rules and expectations. • Each Instance is run by an administrator/admin or a set of admins. De-federation: Generally considered an option of last resort, where a select instance is removed from an instance’s allowed interaction list. Users can no longer see or interact with users or communities of the select instance. Visualization of Threadiverse Defederation. Text: Fediverse Wikipedia Entry Text (w/ additional links): Diving into the Fediverse Video (4min): The Fediverse - Explained by Common Craft Video (4min): Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media ——— 2. Quick Overview - What is the Threadiverse? Threadiverse: a collection of social news aggregation software that federate with one another. • Main Threadiverse software: Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin • Pylova: Piefed soft-fork with additional features • Catodon: "A Fediverse platform that combines the best of Mastodon, Misskey and Lemmy" Text (110 categories): Differences between Threadiverse software (Lemmy vs Mbin vs Piefed) ——— 3. Quick Overview - Communities Community: user-created forums for discussion where users submit relevant posts with links, text, or pictures. • Each software may call its communities something different (Lemmy: sub-lemmy, Piefed: sub-pie, Mbin: magazine). • Communities are local to each instance, however users may subscribe to communities, create posts and leave comments across instances. • Each community is controlled by a moderator or a set of moderators. Admin have higher authority on the instance than moderators (can add and remove moderators). ——— 4. Community Building Community building is often difficult, which is why !fedigrow@lemmy.zip built this wiki to help. 4.1. Community Reach Due to storage limitations, instances generally only retrieve posts and comments for communities that one of their users has subscribed to. This can severely limit the potential reach of your community. • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip sidebar has some links to help grow your community and increase post reach/federation (signed up instances will have a bot follow your community). • Cross-posts to a larger community, on another instance. I'd suggest spreading this out to not appear spammy (Piefed has grouped cross-posts, Lemmy and Mbin do not). 4.2. Sustainable Posting Creating posts can often be difficult, time consuming, and if a post you spent a large amount of effort on doesn’t get a significant response, it can be demoralizing. One step to minimize that potential demoralization is posting sustainably. • If you have a dozen post-worthy images along the same theme, they don’t need to all be uploaded to Imgur or PixelFed, then collected in to a single post. Instead, they can be dribbled in to twelve different posts over time. • Utilizing past Reddit posts and their most useful user comments along with the image itself. Description, Example. 4.3. Getting Interactions/Comments Depending on the person, the most rewarding part of posting can be the interaction with commenters. • Loads of people love to offer their opinions or jump in to correct or answer something, and those make for popular posts, too. Suggestion of types of posts: opinion requests, question-answer. • Post regularly (weekly or a few times a week) with cross-posts to a larger community to see if it gains the traction you are looking for. I’d suggest only 1 cross-post per post, so it doesn’t come across as spammy. 4.4. Helpful Knowledge Linking to a community can be done a few ways, examples: • !fedigrow@lemmy.zip, (!) allows users to view the selective community from their home instance. • https://lemmy.zip/c/fedigrow, (web address) will have users view the selective community from that community’s home instance. • https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip, (web address with @instance) will have users view from your home instance. Know your people: • Known demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025 ——— Let us know if we should add or change anything :) ——— Special thanks to users who helped contribute their thoughts to this wiki: stuartml@piefed.social, JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social, Blaze@lemmy.zip, Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com, GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.net, ImmortalColeSlaw@lemmy.today, vicinus@piefed.zip Link to the same text in the actual Wiki Edit: Some light wording changes. Edit 2: Light formatting.

The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work). To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions): • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it) • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain) • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share) • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics) • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated) ——— Discussion of a community building guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. Here is the current version. Let us know if you have any suggestions/additions/changes? ——— Started Communities: • !smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world • !ecospheres@slrpnk.net (replacement for ecospheres @mander.xyz (instance went down)), currently down too :( • !space_astronomy@piefed.social (replacement for space_astronomy @mander.xyz (instance went down)) Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users: • Mahjong • missingno @fedia.io • Deer (images) • Auster @thebrainbin.org • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces) • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip • Potential cross-posting: !topview@lemmy.world • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale) • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social • Theater (English language community) • 1517m4a @lemmy.pt Suggested Feeds: • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital)) • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social ——— Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way): • !android@lemdro.id • !triathlon@lemmy.world ——— Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post. ——— Edit: added potential cross-posting option for potential "Rooftops" community. Thanks Auster :) Edit 2: missed the announcement of !space_astronomy@piefed.social in a previous post, added it to the post body. Changed community building section and added link to current Community Building Wiki. Some formatting. Edit 3: Added "Theater" to Suggested Communities

I've been tooling around with ideas for an "Obscure Games Club" community. Before making it I'd love to gauge interest, maybe get 1 or 2 people to commit to a certain level of involvement, and get feedback on the setup. But I don't actuallly know a good space to do that.

Most communities on the fedi are monuments to one passionate person talking to a brick wall, with the last post being sometime between 1 and 3 years ago. Perhaps less would peter out if the starting seed was more than one individual.

I can see problems with this idea. But I also see a lot of problems with the current way of doing things. It might be worth a shot.

The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work). To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions): • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it) • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain) • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share) • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics) • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated) ——— Discussion of a working guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. It's been confirmed that Piefed has the functionality for each community to have its own wiki (and I've found the feature, currently playing around with it a bit). The guide could contain: • Beginners guide to the fediverse (many exist), perhaps a quick overview (with links to more extensive breakdowns) before jumping into the threadiverse (Thanks ImmortalColeSlaw @lemmy.today) • On-boarding/quick breakdown of the threadiverse with relevant terms • Demographics. Know demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025, Any others? • Suggestion of types of posts (ex. opinion requests, question-answer) • Utilizing past Reddit posts and their most useful user comments along with the image itself. Description, Example. Thanks JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social • Any other suggestions? ——— Started Communities: • !smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world • !ecospheres@slrpnk.net (replacement for ecospheres @mander.xyz (instance went down)) Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users: • Mahjong • missingno @fedia.io • Deer (images) • Auster @thebrainbin.org • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces) • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale) • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social Suggested Feeds: • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital)) • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social ——— Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way): • !android@lemdro.id • !triathlon@lemmy.world ——— Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post. Edit: changed JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social appreciation, so they don't get pinged every weekly post.

The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work). To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions): • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it) • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain) • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share) • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics) • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated) ——— Discussion of a working guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. It's been confirmed that Piefed has the functionality for each community to have its own wiki (and I've found the feature, currently playing around with it a bit). The guide could contain: • Beginners guide to the fediverse (many exist), perhaps a quick overview (with links to more extensive breakdowns) before jumping into the threadiverse (Thanks ImmortalColeSlaw @lemmy.today) • On-boarding/quick breakdown of the threadiverse with relevant terms • Demographics. Know demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025, Any others? • Suggestion of types of posts (ex. opinion requests, question-answer) • Utilizing past Reddit posts and their most useful user comments along with the image itself. Description, Example. Thanks @JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social • Any other suggestions? ——— Started Communities: • !smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world • !ecospheres@slrpnk.net (replacement for ecospheres @mander.xyz (instance went down)) Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users: • Mahjong • missingno @fedia.io • Deer (images) • Auster @thebrainbin.org • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces) • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale) • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social Suggested Feeds: • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital)) • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social ——— Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way): • !android@lemdro.id • !triathlon@lemmy.world ——— Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post. Edit: added a space. Edit: Added JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social's suggestion of utilizing past Reddit posts and their most useful user comments.

Does anybody know what's going on? It's been days since it was last online. Edit: found another post about it: https://infosec.pub/post/52325030

The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work). To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions): • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it) • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain) • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share) • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics) • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated) ——— Discussion of a working guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. It's been confirmed that Piefed has the functionality for each community to have its own wiki (and I've found the feature, currently playing around with it a bit). The guide could contain: • Beginners guide to the fediverse (many exist), perhaps a quick overview (with links to more extensive breakdowns) before jumping into the threadiverse (Thanks ImmortalColeSlaw @lemmy.today) • On-boarding/quick breakdown of the threadiverse with relevant terms • Demographics. Know demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025, Any others? • Suggestion of types of posts (ex. opinion requests, question-answer) • Any other suggestions? ——— Started Communities: • !smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users: • Mahjong • missingno @fedia.io • Deer (images) • Auster @thebrainbin.org • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces) • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale) • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social Suggested Feeds: • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital)) • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social ——— Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way): • !android@lemdro.id • !ecospheres@mander.xyz (instance currently down) Seems mander.xyz might be down permanently :( • !triathlon@lemmy.world ——— Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post. Apologies for not posting this yesterday. I've been trying to do these posts one day later each week, to make sure everyone would see them, even if they only show up once a week. Shifting the post date by a day does not help me keep in mind that I need to make the post on a specific day. Edit: ecospheres lives again: !ecospheres@piefed.zip, https://piefed.zip/c/ecospheres Edit 2: Saving the old posts via piefed.zip did not work. Community recreated at !ecospheres@slrpnk.net

Let's say I like to "adopt" an inactive Lemmy community representing a city that I have no association with, what are your thoughts if I decide to regularly post the latest news that I find, or interesting articles about it, in a regular basis?

I see bot accounts from username cm0002 on many different instances. At least on the communities I see/moderate, the content is legit, so this is not a complaint, just curiosity.

The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work). To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions): • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it) • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain) • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share) • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics) • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated) ——— Discussion of a working guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. It's been confirmed that Piefed has the functionality for each community to have its own wiki (and I've found the feature, currently playing around with it a bit). The guide could contain: • Beginners guide to the fediverse (many exist), perhaps a quick overview (with links to more extensive breakdowns) before jumping into the threadiverse (Thanks ImmortalColeSlaw @lemmy.today) • On-boarding/quick breakdown of the threadiverse with relevant terms • Demographics. Know demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025, Any others? • Suggestion of types of posts (ex. opinion requests, question-answer) • Any other suggestions? ——— Started Communities: • !smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users: • Mahjong • missingno @fedia.io • Deer (images) • Auster @thebrainbin.org • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces) • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale) • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social Suggested Feeds: • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital)) • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social ——— Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way): • !android@lemdro.id • !ecospheres@mander.xyz (instance currently down) • !triathlon@lemmy.world ——— Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post.

The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to "fill those gaps". Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work). To that end, I'm looking for anyone's input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don't need to answer any or all the questions): • Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it) • Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain) • Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share) • Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics) • Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated) ——— Discussion of a working guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. It's been confirmed that Piefed has the functionality for each community to have its own wiki. The guide could contain: • Beginners guide to the fediverse (many exist), perhaps a quick overview (with links to more extensive breakdowns) before jumping into the threadiverse (Thanks ImmortalColeSlaw @lemmy.today) • On-boarding/quick breakdown of the threadiverse with relevant terms • Demographics. Know demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025, Any others? • Suggestion of types of posts (ex. opinion requests, question-answer) • Any other suggestions? ——— Started Communities: • !smallbusinessowners@lemmy.world Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users: • Mahjong • missingno @fedia.io • Deer (images) • Auster @thebrainbin.org • Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces) • Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip • CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale) • This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social Suggested Feeds: • Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital)) • Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc. • billionsandbillions @piefed.social ——— Struggling Communities (throw a post/comment their way, if you can): • !android@lemdro.id • !ecospheres@mander.xyz (instance currently down) • !triathlon@lemmy.world ——— Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post. Edit: adjusted bullet point formatting for mobile. Edit 2: Added a suggested Community and Feed. Edit 3: Added "Beginners guide to the fediverse" as a potential portion of the wiki. Edit 4: Added triathlon community to post

Feel it would be useful for people here, and would appreciate pointers on somewhere more appropriate to put this if here is not good.