Last point: as a non-native European, I never really paid attention to the English-speaking social media being very US-centric, hopefully that’s a bias we can correct here on Lemmy.

I’m working on it. And there are Canadian and Australian instances doing their bit too.

Having it spread over 7 communities kills activity rather than keeping 1 community alive.

Having three dad communities on lemmy.world is weird and needs sorting out but one of the advantages of subject-specific instances is that they can give a different spin to a topic.

On English-speaking social media, it all tends to become very US-centric - the UK (and, presumably, Canadian, and, hypothetically, an Australian one) allows for people to have more local discussion as the logistics (schools, benefits, the legal system, etc) can be very different.

By the same token, I wouldn’t want all the other dad communities merged into the feddit.uk one (which is the most active, despite the Mod being AWOL, which is easily fixed) as it isn’t just a general dad’s discussion, although all dad’s are welcome, of course.

Might be a you problem as I just subscribed.

Try the direct route: !canvas@toast.ooo

Thanks for the information - very useful. And yes, an FAQ would be handy, although if you wait long enough it’ll be less necessary.

I am very laid back (my Dad always said I was nearly horizontal) and I never get angry, I rarely even get flustered or impatient. My Dad was a very good man and I try to follow his example as much as possible. As his health declined and I started caring for him (a real privilege as he helped so many it was only just that he got help in return when he needed it, even if it couldn’t possibly fully pay him back) and, as I picked up some of his slack I did wonder where he found the time or energy. Since he died, I have felt like a sheepdog without a flock and have found myself adopting various people - I helped a friend through her cancer journey and her son start university, I took another friend to hospital sufficiently often that she just told the staff I was her “hospital husband” (which did stop them asking questions, usually with a roll of the eyes) and, as I don’t drink, I ferry people home from the pub.

However, I can be… thoughtless and this can be really annoying, especially to the easily angered - I’ve lost a friend over it and my brother isn’t exactly my greatest fan (the other year, my niece asked if I wanted to know all the nasty things my brother said about me and I declined - if we knew what people thought about us, we’d tear each other apart). I can also be rude to people but just where it’s funny, you just have to know your audience (it can appal any bystanders though). I’m also not very emotionally expressive and I suspect at least one friend thinks I’m a sociopath.

So am I nice? Although it might depend on who you ask, I’d say no. However, I try to do as much good as possible - if anyone needs help, I’ll drop what I’m doing and pitch in.

What I do when I have spare time: write. I just don’t seem to have had any spare time recently.

Me too - the algorithm offers me a range of film news and I tend to only pass on stutt that interests me but I will try harder to share a wider range.

Oh indeed - it’s always possible to reach out to an Admin to try and sort out any issues - they’re quite obvious though, as they have duplicate communities on the same instance.

I know you don’t like begware, but that’s another model that can also work (most of the instances have celebrated their first birthday recently)

“Begware” seems so negative - I like to recall the maxim: “If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product.” The rise the Big Tech social media firms was propelled by convenience and there being no obvious upfront costs. Enshittification has shown us what the actual costs are.

The Fediverse shows a better way to do it but, if you aren’t selling your users data, then someone has to pay. If one person is footing the bill, then that is a single point of failure. Luckily, costs are quite low, so it doesn’t need a lot of people to chip in to cover the costs - I will.admit to being concerned when we launched the feddit.uk fundraiser, as I wasn’t sure how much we’d raise but, within a couple of days we’d got almost enough to cover the year’s costs with a good steady stream of donations. It means the instance’s financial future is secure.

Yes, I’d imagine there are efficiencies to doing that - we inherited a thriving medium-sized instance so, despite one of the team having spun up their own Lemmy instance, there was a lot of “learning on the job” required to get everything humming along nicely. I imagine that, with more experience it becomes easier.

I’ve been trying to get a bit of life into !starwarsfigures@lemmy.world and !legostarwars@lemm.ee - Rome wasn’t sacked in a day though and experience suggests bloody minded persistence is the key.

I also started !starwarshunters@lemmy.zip - still early days.

Good activity on !movies@lemm.ee, thanks to post from @Emperor@feddit.uk and @UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk

Happy to have somewhere to post film news - I get a tonne in my feed but there are so many film communities I hadn’t got round to figuring out which to commit to. You helped that choice along.

Still a bit frustrating to see that the moderation team on !movies@lemmy.world isn’t doing much with that place, but that’s life I guess

In the end, you can only worry about your own communities.

Instance management is a much more important commitment than moderation, though.

It’s important but it isn’t a huge amount of work, especially if you have a good team to spread the load.

It used to be Lemmy Community Boost and I think it still works despite the status. I do keep meaning to track the developer down and give them a nudge.

Dragged Dragonball over to my instance.

Looking at the activity there, they’ve clearly cut Lemmy loose.

Great post - it’s an excellent idea to highlight communities not on .ml or .world as it helps spread the love and the load.

Insidious!

Now that’s the kind of can-do attitude that Empires are built on!

I’m not super tech savvy but it looks like Jedi.Academy will become available next month, if the current owner doesn’t renew.

That’s one hell of a domain - it needs bagging anyway if it comes up (although I imagine it’ll be expensive, so perhaps not). A bit Sithist though - red lightsaber users are people too.