I tried to post regularly in a few existing community. View were up, engagement null. I didn’t knew what to do either.

I don’t know what a corporate account is. May be I’m one. Not sure.

Edit: oh! You meant them. But still. Was is a corporate account?

Welcome!

Count me in!

I meant that would be a nice instance. I checked: .sport is a existing first level domain and the URL is available.

2 or 3 regular contributors

But how many lurkers? 2 or 3 regular contributors with interesting takes is enough for me to pop from time to time in space I don’t comment.

Also, a new user founding a small community of 3 active members postings for a year or two will probably join while it probably past mass posting without comment or a place without content history.

Percolating? What does that means here? Is this not about making coffee?

PieFed has feed that can agregate a diversity of small or niche sport community in one scrollable thread but I don’t see the point of make volontarly many niche communities at once.

lemmy.sport

It did but I believe the federation broke at some point and never got fixed.

Mastodon has a lot of people talking about craft. Meanwhile Lemmy’s rare communities on the topics get a post every ten days.

I don’t see it is really yet, mostly in terms of content. It lacks in many topics and is drowning under a few others. I would rather like to try building conversation on more diverse topics with the people already here and let curiosity and the network effect very slowly bring the other people in. Plus, it would make the fediverse more enjoyable for people already here.

Even in terms of interoperability the fediverse make a promise it can’t really uphold today. Sure I have my geek fun time publishing my reading note from BookWyrm to Lemmy and commenting on PieFed photos from Sharkey but it is not something a casual user would do. The fediwares need to mature and implement the interoperability ActivityPub allows. That won’t be for tomorrow.

That’s disappointing to see people who could attract people to the fediverse leave it and with bad memories.

Because it is fun.

If you want, I could use my dozen alt account to boost it up ;-)

There was a reason I said “slowly” before.

And produce good content. Our small userbase is slowly building its own culture. We have the potentiel to let exist all the content that cannot survive the pressure of the algorithme.

In my experience (non technical, my delelting post experience) when you create a post it propagates immediatly to any instance that is properly federate to your instance. This usually means same software and people from there following content from your instance. Then, with a lot of conditions to be fullfield, it propaged to partially federated instances. For example instance of another software that makes full federation more difficult, or instance that does a search on your specific post…

When you delete your post, it deletes automatically to any properly federated instance but that could be with a delay (a few minutes, or an hour) but the delete order has issues reaching all the other instances (the ones that were federeate when you create the post but not anymore, the ones from another fediware, …)

You also have no guaranty that someone doesn’t have your post in a backup they may use to restore a fallen instance, or leak through another way. As with every content on the internet, better consider anything once posted as know publically forever.

Are they fighting while covered in snow?

Long story short if you’re not on the same instance as the community, Mastodon replies to you won’t make it to the rest of the threadiverse.

Oh… That explains a lot of. Thank you for sharing the cause and the solution (^_^)