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Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
  • The context I was trying to show that growing a community with continuous progress is different than taking a community that is shrinking, stopping the shrinking, and then causing positive growth.

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    Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
  • I appreciate all you admins here, I really do. Far more transparent than from Reddit and you do it all without making profit.

    The pinned post to Lemmy World sounded like (to me) that you recognize a lot of people signed up, made communities, and then have abandoned Lemmy leaving a lot of ghost communities that you all want to clean up. Totally understandable, especially with all the legal considerations about leaving online spaces unmoderated.

    It just got me thinking about how Lemmy has changed, and how I really want it to succeed. I can try and follow this suggestion, but I almost feel like for a lot of the more niche interests, Lemmy will sort of just be in a holding mode until Reddit inevitably fumbles the ball again leading to a new migration, this time with a more clear destination.

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    Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?
  • Yeah I figured go/baduk would be a hard community to start, which is one of the reasons I chose the Chiefs.

    But this isn’t just the difficulty of growing a community from a small start, this is seeing a community grow then shrink. Going through many niche communities the post rate and comment rate seems down across the board, outside of the biggest communities on the site. Combatting a shrinking community seems even more difficult than growing from a small start.

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  • Like others, I came over when Reddit was banning 3rd party apps. Many communities were being started and I wanted to help. So I chose one community to form here and try and grow. And we did! There was a time a short while in the little KC Chiefs community was in the top 100 communities on Lemmy world. I knew that wouldn’t last that we would be outpaced by many more broad appeal communities but I didn’t predict the reverse in engagement growth that has come. Stagnation sure, I didn’t think Lemmy was going to surpass reddit for a long while yet, but not the barren communities of today. Meme communities and the “small gripe” adjacent communities are doing fine, but it seems all others have shrunk. I tried to keep the Kerbal Space Program community active for a bit but had to return to the official forums and even subreddit for discussion. The post I made in the Go community here remains the only post in the community.

    A platform led by a CEO who edits comments of users, lies about other professionals and then double downs on the lie when proven to be a liar can’t be trusted. And in general I prefer the decentralized open source backbone of Lemmy to the ad ridden, rage bait and bug filled Reddit. I’d love for this to be my full time home for discussing my niche interests but that’s not possible without others engaging with the content.

    I posted a lot in the beginning, tried to comment a lot too but now it feels like talking to myself when I make a new post in the community I started and get few or no responses. What can be done? Community specific advice is nice, but I’m looking more for Lemmy World level solutions as I’m sure there’s many many other niche communities I’m not apart of experiencing the same thing.

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    TEST POST - Game Thread test
  • Not OP but a mod at KC Chiefs. If you do get the bot running and are wanting to share I would be very grateful for not access. Totally understand if that’s not something you are wanting to do tho.

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    Someone at the USA Today is on drugs
  • Which works out great for the Chiefs and their fans, as we get another year of “they doubted us” bulletin material.

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    Community discussion: besides game threads, what types of scheduled posts would you like?
  • Hiya! Game threads are really what I would appreciate the most.

    Also, as a mod of !kansascitychiefs, how are you guys making game threads? Do they have to be manually made each time?

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    Desktop A/C unit. This can't possibly work! Prove me wrong?
  • Unless you are in a dry climate. Our house is cooled almost entirely off of a swamp cooler (small window unit for the bedroom) and the humidity is never noticeably high.

    Gotta live in a desert for that. If not yeah swamp coolers are very limited.

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    Desktop A/C unit. This can't possibly work! Prove me wrong?
  • On point 4, the key part that you are missing is that evaporation /takes/ energy. The standard central air works closer to how you are thinking by the evaporator above your furnace taking heat to then be dumped out by the condenser outside. This is necessary because it is a closed system that must continually reuse the refrigerant.

    Sweat, and the swamp cooler you have here, are not closed systems and therefore don’t have to “dump” heat. Energy was transferred to the water molecules to cause them to evaporate. As latent heat exists (Google this if you are still confused) the heat energy has been transferred to “evaporation” energy and so the heat can be reduced without breaking any thermal laws.

    Basically the water on your skin or in the swamp cooler is like a wall that heat has to break down. The heat can do this, and does get through but has been reduced by the work and is therefore less strong (lower temperature.

    There was no subtraction or addition to total energy when you look at the whole process. Heat energy was transferred to kinetic energy to cause the state change of the water.

    Central AC has to dump heat to reuse the refrigerant. The swamp cooler doesn’t have to dump heat but needs to be refilled often as the evaporation of water takes matter away from the system.

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    Home Screen app no longer works. Webpage still works
  • In case this shows up in anyone’s search,

    It persisted for hours but a few hours and about five times reinstalling the app it started working again.

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  • Using iPhone 13 Pro Max iOS 16.5.1 I have restarted my iPhone and also deleted and re added voyager to my Home Screen. The webpage in safari works but the Home Screen app shows “Safari can’t open the page because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server.”

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    Currently, if I’m browsing all and wish to block a community I have to click into the community, bring up the community feed and then block. If I could block a community from the three dots button in the post while still in the all view it would be amazing.

    At this point Voyager is free and beyond my wildest expectations this early so I want to reiterate my appreciation for the work on the app and understanding if this isn’t a high priority feature. Thanks for everything so far just giving my feedback.

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    mnchiefsfan.substack.com The Outlier Part 2: Patrick Mahomes continues to break charts

    I've gathered a collection of the best charts the Chiefs' QB has ruined as he dominates the NFL in a hilariously visual way.

    Is there a toprightmahomes on Lemmy yet?

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    arrowheadaddict.com The Kansas City Chiefs, Brandon Graham and the Super Bowl excuse that won't go away

    It's been 141 days since the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl 57. Both teams are roughly three weeks from opening trainin

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    Now that I (I think) understand federation I was going to unblock the beehaw communities since I should still be able to vote and comment on them but I can’t find them now.

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    lemmy.world kansascitychiefs - Lemmy.world

    A community for fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. Established 2023 NFL !nfl@lemmy.ml [/c/nfl@lemmy.ml] [https://lemmy.ml/c/nfl] - !nfl@lemmy.world [/c/nfl@lemmy.world] [https://lemmy.world/c/nfl] NFL Memes !nflmemes@lemmy.world [/c/nflmemes@lemmy.world] [https://lemmy.world/c/nflmemes] Arizona Cardina...

    Maybe we can start aggregating all the team subs and getting a list of them all here? This way we can hopefully keep from splitting the community with duplicate team sites?

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