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How are you doing with your communities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

On !sumo@lemmy.world things are still going pretty good!

We're up to 78 subscribers from 47 when I started posting 10 days ago during the March tournament. For a niche comm, that's solid. Occasionally others are making comments and 1 person made a post.
Unfortunately lemmy.world updated their server software and now the thumbnail images that I was making for youtube videos don't propagate there... And sumo is a very visual sport, so I think that's a major loss to casual browsers who might be enticed to check it out. I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world to make the posts from there (since I think the thumbnails work on the same server they're posted on?) but am still trying to make that happen.
Weirdly, one of my lemmy posts was federated to Mastodon? Check this out: https://mastodon.social/@Sergio@slrpnk.net/114166860518065085 It's not something I intentionally did so I don't know why that one was federated and not the others. HYPOTHESIS: Maybe because @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip commented on it and maybe lemmy.zip has some setting that does it automatically? Also noted that my response to tigeruppercut's comment did not federate to mastodon. Not sure wtf is going on there.

In other news, on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world things are still relatively active. Most of the recent posts are by @Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world, and I'm not posting unless there are at least two other posts since my last post. There were a couple other people posting in the last 2 weks and commenting occasionally tho. Luckily Bandcamp thumbnail images are automatically made and working OK.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

maybe lemmy.zip has some setting that does it automatically

Hey, I got the @ notification from your comment this time. I don't have a mastadon acct so I'm not sure, but I haven't seen any announcement about zip posts/comments auto-reposting over there. When I click your link it takes me to a redirect page on mastadon that goes back to lemmy. Anyway, thanks for posting so diligently over there this basho. I hope the sumo board doesn't find that dondonsumo youtuber anytime soon-- so many accounts have been taken down over the years despite them not putting out any official way to watch outside Japan (except the NHK highlights).

BTW you see the dude in the white suit and fedora sitting ringside every day for the past week? Not easy getting those tix! (I found him in the bg of a pic over on reddit)

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

I hope the sumo board doesn’t find that dondonsumo youtuber anytime soon

I think dondon got taken down once; this is his second account. I'm inspired by the fact that he edits his videos in a few short hours after the day's bouts are done!

(except the NHK highlights).

The NHK highlights are not bad... the commentary's in English and pretty good. My main gripe with it is they delay it a day before releasing (and don't seem to release over the weekend?) My fave way of watching is https://www.twitch.tv/midnightsumo because I can chat with people then, but it's tough staying up that late.

BTW you see the dude in the white suit and fedora sitting ringside every day for the past week? Not easy getting those tix! (I found him in the bg of a pic over on reddit)

Yeah! There was also a guy all in yellow a couple days ago, someone on midnightsumo said he'd been there all day from the very first bouts! Part of the fun is people-watching.