So the mods of a few of the cooking/food communities have come together to try to help eachother and our communities grow. You may have noticed we have started linking other communities on the side bar. And we are discussing other forms of cross-promotion. If you have any suggestions please feel free to comment them below.
For now, we are encouraging our users to subscribe and cross post when they can to related communities. We want our communities and Lemmy as a whole to grow and we need users and content. More content = more users that may become interested to subscribe. We are also asking our users to take part and post. There’s a very high percentage of lurkers and that’s perfectly fine, but we need people to post and share. That’s the only way we will be able to keep this train rolling. So please post and cross-post when you can and help us grow our communities. Thank you!
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What are the other communities?
I posted to foodporn and got hammered, it was something delicious but not photogenic. It didn’t fit in recipes. What subs are active?
Besides what is linked in the side bar, you may also check out !shittyfoodporn@lemmy.ca. If anyone else knows more, we’d love to hear about them.
Thank you
Interesting, i run and mod !food@monyet.cc that meant for a place for Malaysian to post their food pic when the instance is set up. Used to had more people posting but currently it’s mostly just me posting stuff i ate from time to time and also news related to food. I’ll link up all the community at the side bar from at my end when i got the time.
I had the same issue with my community (PS5) and a sister community (Playstation). My community was much more active but niche compared to the other community. Ultimately I was handed control of the sister community (PlayStation) by the former mods and both communities voted overwhelmingly to merge under the one with the larger umbrella.
I think this is something you should consider down the road. It may not be the best for now as foodporn and shittyfoodporn and recipes are all very different, but I believe lemmy is working on a flair/tagging system. When that goes live you could unify under c/food and then use tags so that users can set up the filters on their end. If someone only wants recipes, they can filter out shittyfood and foodporn. If someone only wants shittyfood, they filter the rest, etc.
Best of luck on all this. I am still working on managing the very large transition we just did. And we will be looking into mandatory flairs when the feature goes live to help those only looking for certain content.
Edit: I am subscribed to all of the food communities. I don’t do much cooking but I love the food! I’ll be sure to vote more frequently
No offense meant, but if we don’t have enough active contributors to make the /c/foodporn community active, what good is fragmenting a fledging community and losing the visibility gained from posting in one area with high traffic?
Surely the strategy here should be to build a critical mass of followers in one community, then split into category specific communities based on feedback from the users on what is or is not desired. Organic growth into multiple topics vs splintering a community that’s basically my food plus or minus a half dozen posts a week. Someone wining that they get no traffic doesn’t really incentive me to post in their communities.
I have the same feeling.
We have experienced everyone creating their obscure communities for the last few months, but it is obvious that due to the size of Lemmy, only communities which are generic enough can get enough traction to survive
Maybe, and if some communicaties die then that is fine and probably inevitable. But, at the same time I don’t see the problem in bringing multiple communities with an overarching theme together. To me it’s not about splintering the community or driving traffic, it’s bringing as many people who love cooking together.
It’s a political thing.
This post has me seriously considering no longer contributing to any communities.
Edit: Mods can read the original messages, right?
I have no idea about the politics, I think you have to admit that the food communities have not transferred from Reddit. Even the pizza subs are kinda dead. Maybe it will just take time, or maybe they won’t find traction here. Idk, but I know I’m not going back to the other place. Hopefully it happens here, if it doesn’t, then I will randomly post into the void about random projects.
Love this! I recently started up !foraging@lemm.ee, as the previous one vanished out of thin air. Got over 100subs in just a day! Was very happy to see so many partake in the joy of foraging. Hopefully more will come to share their findings. There are loads to be harvested from the natural world, that would be great additions to ones foodporn 🙌
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That’s awesome, I just subbed to this community after stumbling on a post in the general feed. Looking forward to everyone’s posts, and I’ll share when I can!
Where would be the best place to ask about kitchen knives?
Please don’t crosspost. When I see the same posts on multiple places I just block the small communities
