I want to be part of the solution of the problems I see on Lemmy, that is why I opened my alt account at my current server to open new communities while fixing their issues.

I had been informed by the server admin that I should not post more than 5 posts in any local community which is guaranteed to kill my communities on my current server.

I am explaining the backstory here for people to understand my logic for my question.

So, I really appreciate any help here. If anyone can give me good servers to open my communities in.

My current communities:

News: to lower the load on Lemmy. World server and to improve the Fediverse health.
Europe: due to less than optimal moderation actions as documented in "power trippin " community.
Misinformation/ Disinformation: Because there is no community to post research and news about this topic.

Thank you all for your help. I really would appreciate any lead here.

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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (7 children)

There is no example of subreddit community that had successfully boycotted Reddit and transplanted here.

!fediverse@lemmy.world is much more active than /r/fediverse

[–] rglullis 0 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

Oh, wow. Thank you for a very good example for self-selection bias!

Seriously, though: why is it that you feel this intense urge to dismiss any and everything I am saying? Don't you think that is a little bit sad that all you can do is this mindless pontification?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

I reply when I see absolutes such as "all communities on Lemmy are dead", "all mods are bad ", "all communities are about politics"

It paints the platform in a bad light and it's not accurate.

Don’t you think that is a little bit sad that all you can do is this mindless pontification?

Another example of absolute.

I help this platform grow by regularly posting and engaging with regular users.

Stop using absolute statements and I'll stop replying.

[–] rglullis 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I reply when I see absolutes such as “all communities on Lemmy are dead”, "all mods are bad ", “all communities are about politics”

I didn't make any of these statements
There is a big difference between "sweeping generalizations" and "categorically correct statements". The former are the statements you give as examples, but the latter can apply to the absolute majority of cases, even if someone has a data point ("the exception that proves the rule") in the contrary.

It paints the platform in a bad light

Why would you think that?

The original argument was "Communities don't need a lot of posting to survive here", and my response is basically saying "we should strive for more than surviving".

It seems like that instead of focusing on the part where I am calling for more action, you decided to focus on what you perceive as criticism and you try to attack that as soon as possible.

Stop using absolute statements and I’ll stop replying

It feels like your problem is not with the "absolute statements", but that you are doing your best to reject reality.

It doesn't matter if the number is 100% or 99% or 92.376%, what matters is that it has been two years since the Reddit boycott and we still do not have a good example of a thriving community here. We had many attempts (the /r/selfhosted people, the /r/blind), but they are by and large still on Reddit. Can you at least agree to that?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There is no particular community which is thriving.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

47 communities with more than 5k monthly active users.

It seems like that instead of focusing on the part where I am calling for more action, you decided to focus on what you perceive as criticism and you try to attack that as soon as possible.

I didn't see a "call for more action" in that comment.

!fedigrow@lemmy.zip and !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com are communities about acting to make the platform grow.

they are by and large still on Reddit. Can you at least agree to that?

Of course they are, the same way the vast majority of microblog users are still on Twitter compared to Mastodon. That doesn't prevent communities to thrive, as stated above.

[–] rglullis 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn’t see a “call for more action” in that comment.

We have someone that wants to post more content and who is being told "don't do that. things here are slow. It's more than enough to have only 5 posts a day, more than that and you are spamming" and I am saying "No, it's not enough. We should be encouraging to have people posting more, not less."

Of course they are, the same way the vast majority of microblog users are still on Twitter compared to Mastodon.

I gave a very specific example to illustrate where Mastodon had become more relevant than Twitter. Again: it's not about absolute numbers.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

No, it’s not enough. We should be encouraging to have people posting more, not less.”

Host them on your instance, then.

I gave a very specific example to illustrate where Mastodon had become more relevant than Twitter. Again: it’s not about absolute numbers.

I just checked the first two pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/

No Twitter thread, no Mastodon thread. The closest links are blog posts from Medium or Substack, or personal blogs.

[–] rglullis 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Host them on your instance, then.

Hummm, gladly?

I'm running more than 15 instances for communities. I was running alien.top which at one point hosted 600k accounts with more than 2M posts + comments, a lot of them being sent to the topic-specific instances. I'm constantly reminding people that the instances are there, and that I can create communities for anyone that need it.

I just checked the first two pages (...) No Twitter thread, no Mastodon thread.

Cherry-picking data points is not the way to make an argument. That just makes you seem clueless and/or biased.

If you really want to refute my statement, you'll need to take a look at all submissions in the past two years and compare the number of posts to twitter vs the number of posts to any Mastodon instance.

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