Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect, moderation tools to help the smaller discussions grow would be useful here too.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Drive by negativity for niche communities can have a outsized chilling effect
What do you mean? Sorry English isn't my first language
If a smaller community has people who don't like it, they can turn that small community into a place to be negative about what that community is trying to be.
So when people want to talk about that community, they go into the post, and they see negativity, and they're less likely to participate. They don't want to deal with the negativity, they don't want to deal with the naysayers
Ah indeed, makes sense. Any recent example in mind?
Fortunately he got banned since then, but I agree
Haha. I thought beehaw was all about being nice? What i heard, can't see any of their stuff usually.
I think they try to be(e)!
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I'm pretty comfy and nappy on my two kbin / mbin magazines ( @fakemon@fedia.io and @pokemonfanfiction@fedia.io ), waiting for people to arrive. Yeah, unfortunately they are like three or four layers deep within "niche of a niche of a niche of..." but what'ya gonna do? it's the stuff that interests me that doesn't already have tons of people going about it already (hi, Linux communities!).
Good luck with those!
Are there active generic Pokemon communities on Lemmy/Mbin? I think I've never seen any
Danke!
I know there are a few generic Pokémon communities on lemmy. !pokemon@lemmy.ml is the one I see more content in but 80% of the time is just news announcements. We do have !pokemon@lemm.ee at home, too! And there's communities for Pokémon on both kbin.social and lemmy.world but they seem to be having federation issues (or I am), as I can't see full threads / posts from most of my instances, instead having to visit them directly.