Hi there! I recently created !sonicthehedgehog@lemmy.world, !metroid@lemmy.world, and !slycooper@lemmy.world for their respective series. All three of these are series I really enjoy, and it seemed like there wasn’t much in the way of active communities for them.
- Sly I could find nothing for.
- Sonic has an SDF, .ml, and pawb.social community, but these are dead, and their moderators have not posted anything anywhere in nearly a year or more.
- Metroid has one nearly dead community on lemm.ee which I would have posted to instead, except both of its moderators seem to be long-gone as well.
These all have the same (I think pretty lax) sets of rules, and I intend to share the rules across any retro gaming subreddits I may create going forward. I’m not looking for moderators right now only because these are starting out so small, but I’d be stoked to have you come check any of them out and contribute!
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Rather than creating more new communities centralized on lemmy world, why not try and revive the existing !sonic@pawb.social and !metroid@lemm.ee?
these are dead, and their moderators have not posted anything anywhere in nearly a year or more
I don’t think that’s necessarily a reason not to use them. Even if the mods are gone, some subscribers will still be there. It’s easier to revive existing communities than to start over from scratch. I’ve also found that instance admins are usually fairly open to replacing inactive moderators with active ones. You could try contacting admins like @atomicpeach@pawb.social and @beneeney@lemm.ee and see if you can work something out.
I think creating new versions of existing dormant communities on different instances only serves to further fragment the userbase. Just my two cents :)
It makes sense that centralization around a specific instance can be touchy because a lot of us are refugees from another platform whose centralized administration ruined it. I’ll explain for each one of these I mentioned why I didn’t go for it.
I will not be trying to personally revive pawb.social, as I’m not a furry and have no interest in moderating a community whose unifying identity I do not and cannot relate to. That is, I’d want to help foster a community that I’d want to be a part of, which is one about Sonic rather than about how Sonic fits into the context of being a furry. I put that one in there just to address all of the ones I could possibly find. If someone does revive this community, though, I’d be happy to link it in the sidebar for the Lemmy.World one for those looking for that more specific kind of Sonic community.
As for lemm.ee, I decided against getting in contact with the admins and trying to work something out (I’m not unfamiliar with this, as I had to contact one of the administrators of Lemmy.World to work out the Sonic community since it had been previously deleted) predominantly because I felt the 500 kB image upload limit could be detrimental to those wanting to post fan art. That is, I thought it’d give users a better experience all while being easier to create on my home instance, making it a no-brainer to me.
Lastly, although you didn’t bring these ones up, I thought about asking to revive the SDF Sonic community, but I decided against this one just because of the name. I just really, really don’t like using underscores in community names where it’s not actually necessary. The .ml /c/sonic community just has nothing worth salvaging. And the .ml /c/metroid community has three posts that are all a few years old.
I don’t mind putting in the effort to contact moderators or administrators when I believe it will be in the best interest of the community. It’s just that for all of these, I felt like starting fresh on Lemmy.World was a better alternative (barring Sly, of course, who just strangely has nothing anywhere).
Thanks for clarifying! Your reasons seem sound. Best wishes with your new communities!
For sure; much appreciated! And of course if I’m considering any communities going forward, deference will go to searching exhaustively for existing communities. If there’s no functional difference, I’d much prefer to revive a community and make Lemmy more resilient through decentralization.
For the time being, of course, these are the first communities I’m moderating, and so I’ll stick to these for right now.
Feel free to join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee , community building can be quite lonely
Edit: a thread about LW centralization: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11972110?scrollToComments=true
A thread about shouting into the void: https://sopuli.xyz/post/11976921
As for lemm.ee, I decided against getting in contact with the admins and trying to work something out (I’m not unfamiliar with this, as I had to contact one of the administrators of Lemmy.World to work out the Sonic community since it had been previously deleted) predominantly because I felt the 500 kB image upload limit could be detrimental to those wanting to post fan art. That is, I thought it’d give users a better experience all while being easier to create on my home instance, making it a no-brainer to me.
On this point, I suggest using catbox.moe or another image hosting service. Lemmy is still small, but if we keep growing and storing the pictures on the instances themselves, that might become an issue for admins
Interesting! I’d feel a lot more comfortable with it if it were FOSS, but it still looks like a good host. I’ll add a link to it in the sidebars with the non-FOSS disclaimer and suggest that users posting videos or very large images use it. Thank you. :)
Just a heads up, catbox.moe is starting to get blocked by some major ISPs. Verizon is one I’ve run into, catbox links won’t load if I’m using the mobile network.
