Awesome, thanks for the info!

Someone on this Mastodon instance started to follow the tycoon lemmy community

Fascinating info. I’d noticed that posts from the lemmy community !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip were showing up on Mastodon. For example: https://mastodon.social/@Hammerjack@lemmy.zip/114286540525130294

But how do I follow a lemmy community from mastodon? I tried a couple things but nothing worked. Thanks for any additoinal info.

Hey you’re always welcome on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, we’re more than just music posts now.

Subbed! gl hf

Well, I was saying you don’t have to be a mod. If we look at examples beyond “alt” communities, !superbowl@lemmy.world 's main poster isn’t a mod. Likewise, !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world 's most frequent poster isn’t a mod either.

It doesn’t have to be hard work. Just pick a couple communities and start engaging at the level you’re comfortable with.

I’ve noticed it goes in phases:

• dormant community. maybe occasional posts.
• one person posting regularly. maybe they’re a mod, maybe not. some upvotes, occasional discussion.
• 2-3 people posting regularly. others post occasionally. some upvotes, occasional discussion.
• several regular posters, several others post occasionally. regularly upvoted posts, frequent discussions

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world is currently in phase 3 but it was in phases 1 and 2 for a while. !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip is bouncing between phases 1 and 2. !thrashmetal@lemmy.world is in phase 3. Punk is interesting bc it has both !punk_rock@lemmy.ca and !punk@lemmy.world. Ideally they’d join forces on !punk_rock@lemmy.ca and then they’d be in phase 2 or 3. !metal@lemmy.world is pretty much at phase 4, tho it’s sometimes lacking in discussions.

Anyway, I recommend picking one of those communities and posting/discussing, you don’t have to be a mod to help grow them.

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world just relaunched recently, previously it was only music-focused but now we welcome any related discussion. though we’re still mostly just posting music links, lel.

Same with industrial music! (especially if no lyrics)

Large increases in material output, we are assured, can save liberalism from the civilizational choice between socialism and barbarism. I disagree; refusing to be forthright about society’s structural antagonisms opens the door to demagogues who peddle false conflicts that still ring truer than the liberals’ false peace.

ikr OP has never been to a US county fair. They take any food, and deep-fry it.

Thanks, it’s amazing how I can log in to lemmy every day and there are still live interesting communities that I didn’t know existed. We’re really not that small after all.

Oh yeah Sanctuary kills! another couple good things:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aij5PTNHdvY - what could be better than a couple drunk Texas sumotori watching the 1992 film “Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t”? Not much. It takes them 5 minutes just to get the movie started tho lel. There’s also a 2022 miniseries of the same name but you’ll have to find someone with a Disney account for that.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CISA3X2cJw - Hinomaru Sumo anime. sub is better imho but most of the dub is free at that link. It’s missing the last episode of season 2 tho, you’ll have to find it elsewhere if you get that far, I think it’s on crunchyroll and amazon streaming.

This is literally you, buddy:

be a chad… speak the truth. At !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world

Have you tried posting to !chadmctruthstruth@lemmy.world ?

Now that you mention it, there are a couple of us posting regularly on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world and !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee and I sometimes post to !martialartsmovies@lemm.ee , !badmovies@lemmy.world , and !cultfilms@lemux.minnix.dev. If you add them all together you have a pretty vibrant community.

Maybe we should do that thing where we link to each other’s communities in the sidebar, like a “movie ring” or something?

agreed. at most it belongs on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com so we can consider how we can use it to advertise lemmy to disenchanted r$dditors.

Agreed! I’m typing this out while reclining on my futon+mattress on the floor.

Bed on the floor. Best of both worlds.

I use firefox to log into pixelfed, dark mode works on that. (Dark Mode Reader extension fwiw). haven’t tried it on firefox android tho.

I seem to remember Lemmy had a harder crash

iirc during the r$ddit API debacle, Lemmy went from 1000 MAUs (40 MAU for kbin) to a peak of around 70k then down to around 38k MAUs (lemmy + kbin). However I think this was only counting posts and comments as “activity”, I think it was around March 2024 they started counting up/downvotes as well and the MAUs stabilized in the lower 40ks for the rest of the year and is now slowly rising.