To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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If we do grow another one, then I would love a more generic name
I haven't seen the subreddit in a long time, but similar to !writingprompts@literature.cafe type communities, I wonder if there is less interest in making the content when AI tools can also do it (at a much lower quality). I would much rather look at what a human created, but I worry people aren't as motivated to try it when they can generate it?
I would love a more generic name
Considering the general userbase is very open-source focused, we should promote FOSS alternatives. Instead, we could call it GimpBattles. Then people would know we mean business. /s
On a serious note, I understand that familiarity is important and helps with users that are migrating over here but I have always felt it's the perfect opportunity to do away with some of the dumb subreddit names (all the ___Porn names, like EarthPorn)
Lemmy is not reddit, that's the point of Lemmy.
I'll be honest, I use this as a Reddit replacement and I'm sure others do too. Lemmy is not Reddit but they are connected in some peoples' minds. I see it as a lovely opportunity to redo the mistakes made on Reddit, like not being able to edit a title.
I also like the idea of recreating the non-NSFW ___porn communities without such a name—I doubt people would object to NiceEarthPictures nearly as much as EarthPorn, if EarthPorn hadn't already become established and there were not arguments to make about discoverability. Some people might see wanting to excise "porn" from the community name as Puritanism taking hold, but for me it is less about "porn objectionable" and more "this feels a little immature, and for someone new to Reddit naming conventions they might refuse to click thinking it's porn porn, with sex, and not just innocent images". I can imagine people not being interested in whatever fetish would be labeled "Earth porn" regardless of how hard they'd judge the fetish, but being interested in pretty Earth pictures.
Agreed
I think how open ended it is matters, as well as how quickly you can look at an image vs read a submission. Even on r/writingprompts, I always read a few and then moved on, while I could keep going on and on on PSBattles, because each image was just a glimpse and what they did with it was so different (at least it felt like compared to how writing prompts usually went). And personally, I agree about pivoting to a generic name.
but I worry people aren't as motivated to try it when they can generate it?
photoshopbattles are going on as we speak, the sub, 20 million strong. who cares about unmotivated slop slingers?
psbattles could be a good name--subtitled like photo s___? battles to avoid the proprietary [I use GIMP anyway]
I think that would still invoke photoshop, just going with something more generic would be the better option long-term using the op rationale.
We should revive the lemm.ee instance
Because the others are dormant while that one is unmoderated? I thought it might be beneficial to just start making !imageedits@lemmy.zip alive again since it already exists. Even though the mod is inactive. If they do not come back or use Lemmy, you can always message the instance admin to install you as mod too and possibly kick the dormant account off the mod team, that's what I did with !bunnies@lemmy.world with my lemmy.world account.
Or is it because you use lemm.ee right now, and you only can use all mod powers on a local account? I have multiple accounts on different instances to deal with modding on different instances. It really does not take much effort for me to hop into different instances.
In a curious twist, I can't find !imageedits@lemmy.zip through a lemmy.zip account. It just doesn't show up in search, and clicking on the links I myself posted from this account leads to an error message.
I wonder if someone closed it down? If not, I have had similar troubles with lemmy.zip and honestly forgot about them when I made this post.
We remove communities with dormant mods to prevent spam :)
So I made a backup community, !otomegames@lemmy.zip on your community, explicitly saying I would not do any posting or unlock unless the main !otomegames@ani.social died. Is that getting killed unless the community receives posts? What about the @OtomeGamesBot@lemmy.zip (which is usually me manually operating, oops)?
Nah, we do a whole process where we write out to mods first to check before deleting - plus iirc you've put its a backup community in the sidebar. We're not so big I don't recognize the communities quite yet!
We wouldn't delete any dormant account.
Whew, thank you. And you are absolutely right I am explicit about its backup status in the sidebar.
That is a fair point. Promoting the community again should help take care of contributors as well, hopefully.
