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.

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 6 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Things have felt pretty damn good around crazypeople.online but lets review-

!eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online Still tops the list. Last week we had just over 100 subscribers, this week we're sitting at >160 and the activity around the community shows it. Fucking bravo everyone. Legends, all of you.

!weedtime@crazypeople.online Has a mirror trajectory. Last week just under 100 subscribers, this week we are just under 160 awesome people to hang out with. Activity is up here as well. Great stuff!

!loweffortmemes@crazypeople.online moves up a spot this week from around 60 subscribers last week, up to nearly 90 this week. @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com is churning out low effort masterpieces like a kindergarten class with finger paints. What more could we ask for? Whenever you guys are done eating paste come show him your appreciation and hang your own low effort artwork on the wall!

!pokemonTCGM@crazypeople.online moves down a slot but still saw impressive growth for our small instance. Last week we had around 60 subscribers and this week we're over 70. The activity is up here too with weekly trading opportunities (IT'S TODAY!) posted by @Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world and @ladel@feddit.uk filling us in with news and updates. Come check out the cool stuff we've been pulling and maybe pickup a card or two you've been hunting!

!autoracing@crazypeople.online is still working on breaking into the 50 subscriber club. With the return of F1 we've had more of that type of content being posted, but anything and everything auto racing is more than welcome.

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my God, I love your instances name! Lol it's awesome !

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 1 points 19 hours ago

🙏

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago

Impressive!

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago

!journaling@sh.itjust.works keeps on growing (437 users, today), but still very little participation.

I'm counting on the new subscribers to make a difference in the long run as I imagine most of the old user base is AFK like the original admin/creator (there were approx 200-230 users when I was given the keys to the community, and it had been hibernating for at the very least a whole year before I started posting). Hopefully with the number of new users steadily growing, and them becoming less 'new' a few should start participate more ;)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Getting a bit frustrated about the BuyEuropean / BuyfromEU situation. Now there's even another one, !BuyFromEU@europe.pub. I tried to bring the argument that too many communities on a niche topic splinter discussion with the admin, but they still want to keep their community open.

!europePub@europe.pub for people interested

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't be (it will not help you and it won't change a thing). Not forgetting that they're free to do whatever they want. No one is right or wrong, it's just... not ideal as it is ;)

Also, seeing how this is becoming kinda trendy topic relayed outside Lemmy I would not be surprised to see even more appearing. Say 'use-european' 'Support-european' 'made-in-Europe' (this one has my preference :p) and their obvious mirrors 'made-in-the-EU', 'support-the-EU', and so on.

I don't know about the other users but I can't be bothered with too many similar communities (2 is really a maximum as far as I'm concerned, after that it's just a mess that requires way too much time/energy from me to get anything out of it). So, I will ignore trends and focus on those communities whose moderation/participation I appreciate the most ;)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

My main frustration comes from the fact that instead of building a community together, we're competing with the 3 different versions of the same community

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No >:[ buy from MY Europe

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, that's what it feels like indeed 😅

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Have you considered asking the similar communities to link to their counterparts in the sidebar? At least that way no matter what one you discover first you can find the rest pretty easily.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The usually do, but that doesn't address the main issue: discussion splintering

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's something that more people are going to have to decide is a problem to make major headway. There's a lot of instance tribalism on Lemmy and I think that makes people reluctant to consolidate right now. One group is complaining about instances that are too large, another that more communities should be folded into one place. Both can be correct, but it's a hard sell after people have invested time and effort into another space. In time people will either adapt to checking multiple communities or they'll come around to share your point of view.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

it’s a hard sell after people have invested time and effort into another space.

I get that, but here the new community is brand new.

[–] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

watch the world burn

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Indeed ha ha

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

A topic I've thought about too. (just joined lemmy and was bit confused to why they dont merge somehow)

EDIT: Maybe be more distinct and communicate in very aggressive ways what's unique that the other community doesnt have. Thoughts?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

EDIT: Maybe be more distinct and communicate in very aggressive ways what’s unique that the other community doesnt have. Thoughts?

In this case, all three are almost identical

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Sometimes they do state it somewhere, either in the community info or in the stickied post. Other times when the alternative is on an instance that some users distrust then it's more implied.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's very slow because there are basically no Koreans on Lemme, I'm not even a mod on this community but 90% of the posts are mine, the mod/admin basically never posts, very few comments but at least some upvotes :D

!korea@lemmy.funami.tech

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago

just joined :D

someone I know studied Korean here in Europe and had a year in Seoul too. There will definitely be updates I'll like. Thanks for posting, As a silent reader I will appreciate <3

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have you promoted it to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ? :)

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 points 1 day ago

Now I did.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Quite happy with the grow of !ask@lemm.ee

Thank you @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al and other people who post there

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Happy to see the TV communities consolidated on !Television@lemm.ee

@simple@lemm.ee, thank you for your post there!

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

And the subs have gone from like 100 to 250 in a day (or less than) 👍

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

More than 550 monthly active users 👍

[–] Skavau@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Btw can u update the movies sidebar and any other sidebars, and if u have any communities you want me to add (or add urself) to televisions sidebar

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

Done!

[–] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

No prob

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sort of a reversal of last time, !haiku@lemm.ee has more or less stayed constant at 78 subscribers, while !fakealbumcovers@lemm.ee is only 3 away from 100, and has had a few posts from other people so far. Did try to reach out to the albumartporn community mod, but didn't get a reply yet.

Still happy with the overall progress, though.

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I immediately subbed to the haiku comm :)

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago

Thanks!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you @Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com for your posts on !imaginary@reddthat.com !

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

!lego@lemm.ee still doing fine