Hey, I haven’t popped in for a while since everything had been going smoothly, but it’s been irking me to see all the Fediverse infighting going on these last 2 weeks or so. Thankfully it seems to be cooling off a bit, but I thought I would check in here with the people trying to grow things.
I saw something pop up from whatever bot is occasionally putting out Fediverse stats, so I started looking myself up, naturally. 🤪
I still think of myself as a relatively quiet, and maybe not shy, but reserved person around people I don’t know well, so I was pretty shocked to see I was in the top 20-something of posters. I had seen something like that maybe a year or so back and thought it was hard to believe then, and it still is. I also looked through the list of .World communities to see who else was still running a big (for Lemmy) community mostly by themselves, and as far as I could see, everyone with more MAU has multiple active posters at this point, which is great. It again hit me as a bit of a surprise that Superbowl has really become this popular, and also that I’ve kept this up for so long. It’s good I don’t think about how much time I put into this very often! 😄
I’m still really grateful that I’m still able to be doing this actively after nearly 3 years. I didn’t ever consider I’d be an active contributor, and I didn’t know I’d find so much personal passion in this subject or that you all would want to hear so much of it. I’m forever happy I found Lemmy when I did, and that I took the chance to put myself out there a bit and that you all took the time to be receptive to me. It’s changed my personal life greatly, improved my confidence, and has gotten me to go down a road I never had imagined myself on. I want to keep helping the Fediverse grow, and I’m glad all of you are still here doing the same as well. This is a great community, and I’m happy to still be a part of it. So while some people are out trying to break some things, I just felt I needed to come and let you guys know I really appreciate you all keeping this thing going.
Hah, that might be a bit of an exaggeration! 😄
I tried to not make it sound like a humblebrag. It was just a surprise to me and it still surprises me how much what I share seems to mean to people. I do feel like a better person for being here though. Everyone has been so supportive and it’s carried over to my real life and I’m glad I can return some of the happiness you all give to me by being such a kind audience.
I’ve peeked at your sumo link a few times, as I’m curious to watch some of it, and I had seen your link to the youtube channel to watch the matches, but I still don’t have much context. I know some of the basic rules, but perhaps if you know of some good Sumo for Noobs guides, they might be good for the sidebar. There seems to be a lot of ceremony and symbolism, but I tend to forget the finer details, and if there was a “now this right here is some fine sumo!” list of things to watch for, I think that would help.
Thanks for the feedback! We don’t have much of a side bar, instead I post that info 2-3 times during the tourney. At the bottom of that post is a link to an intro video:
And from that post, here is the best English commentary on each day of the tourney:
Thanks, I will check that out!
Due to personal life stuff I was not very active on !animation@piefed.social for the last few months of 2025. Thankfully, due to a handful of users who I’m very grateful to, there was some semi-regular activity still that kept the community active and slowly growing.
Since February I’ve been slowing getting more and more active. We’re at 1.8k subscribers after almost a year on piefed which is more than it had after about a year on lemm.ee. But I also don’t think it’s quite as active as it was it was back then which is partly my own fault.
It’s okay, take time for you too. It can be quite tiring the keep a community active by yourself.
Activity went down a little in !dailygames@lemmy.zip, but according to these stats we have an upward trend since the end of April.
The biggest drawback to this community is that, if I’m busy and don’t have time to play games, I don’t have any real reason to visit. I haven’t had time to play anything recently, but I’ll be back soon when I start playing again.
You could upvote others’ great results. I’m always happy when someone solves a Wordle in 2 tries.
Yeah, I guess I could do that. Wordle and Connections are usually my favorite two.
!sumo@lemmy.world has come back to life, since the May tournament started a couple days ago! So far 2 other people have made posts and there are like 4 of us having daily discussions, which is a nice number.
Nice!
Oh hey since Blaze knows all, do you know how to get in touch with cm0002? Because the bot on !trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe seems to be dead and I’ve messaged them without success. thx.
There’s !fediverse@quokk.au that now has similar posts, managed by @quokka@quokk.au
oh, thx for the info!
Continuing on from my recent post here, I’ve arrived at a personal list of five key communities that I will be pledging my (posting) support to.
What I’m loosely working on now is to do a little writeup, inviting others to participate. One little ‘carrot’ I’m thinking of is that others might be able to suggest /c’s that I personally add to my list, and maybe-possibly some folks might be interested in pledging support to various places on my list, too.
I’m not exactly sure how to best-phrase the post so as to get eyes on it, but we’ll see how it goes…
