There are a fair number of totally empty magazines created during rexit, with no threads, yet a fair number of subscribers (because the name matches a popular sub from Reddit). I clicked on one this morning, because I saw it in random magazines side bar section. No threads. Created a month ago by a user who hasn’t posted a single thread or comment on Kbin.
This is like obvious scammers during a gold rush. Some people just wanted to reserve magazine names with no intention of doing anything helpful. Maybe they just wanted bragging rights by claiming to be a moderator. Maybe they think they can sell control of the magazine later. It doesn’t matter to me. I just think an admin should delete these sorts of magazines. Anyone who starts a magazine should at least post a few threads. Absolute ‘no effort at all’ owners contribute nothing.
I just think Kbin would seem more functional and positive if the magazines that exist actually had some content.
Edit: based on a comment below, it seems that Ernest has a tentative plan in place for this sort of situation, which is great :)
I created a magazine hoping that people who migrated from Reddit would find a new home. I intended to moderate the magazine, just to help the community grow.
It turns out there just aren’t enough participants. It would be pointless if the moderator is the only person contributing to the community.
I don’t see anything worth bragging about being a moderator. I do hope there is a way to “free” the magazine name so someone else can manage it.
I mean if you have a magazine description and logo, and at least 1 post (even a pinned introduction post)… that’s much better than what OP is talking about where the only substance there is the community name.
I feel you. I made a couple of communities I’d like to help grow and develop, but they don’t seem to attract much activity from other users since they’re rather niche (1, 2, 3, in case anyone’s interested). I hope they might increase in size organically over time, since I don’t want to flood them with my own posts, but I’m not sure what timelines to expect or if it’s ever going to happen.
By the way, have you tried posting to new communities?
Your jewelry design magazine is what I would hope for and expect from people who create mags. You have a logo, and have personally seeded it with over half a dozen posts. It’s a bit niche, so I’m not surprised that you don’t have many subscribers yet, but you seem to have done your part to establish it. Thanks.
I subbed to your mag Urban Details. Seems right up my alley, and I notice that a couple of folks have also been posting there. That seems promising.
Thanks. Yeah, it seems like Urban Details should have the widest audience between the three. Finders crossed :)
Bookmarked this comment so I can sub when I’m back on desktop. I’m actually happy to see an industrial design group!
For the jewellery one, is that intended for professional jewellery designers or is it also for the craft hobbyists?
I’d say both, however it should depend on the quality of content, imo. I don’t want it to get filled with somewhat low-effort or completely beginner posts.
Yeah that’s fair. My other Lemmy account is craft focused and I’ve chatted to a couple of people who were looking for a jewelry making community but couldn’t find one. Will point them at you next time but let them know it’s more about the design side than just the “look what I made” side. Cheers!
I’m in the same position but I’m trying to post some content to try to induce some.people.to participate. I’m going to give it a few months where it can be my personal link farm and I’ll rethink after that if it gains no traction.
Yeah I feel similarly. I created a magazine and was excited about moderating it even, but I’m not very much of a poster, more a lurker and commenter. But yeah it has a few subscribers now so I should probably just make some posts as a start at least
I feel personally attacked ha ha ha. :-D
Seriously though, if you believe there is a need for a community keep it, if not Ernest is building the mechanism.
I created two communities (both on here and Lemmy but trying to use Kbin as my Reddit replacement). What I plan on doing is leveraging the Reddit API and the Kbin API when it becomes available to mirror the posts made on Reddit until the community grows enough.
Could be a lofty goal, but that’s my plan. Granted it’s difficult when self-hosted videos are posted on Reddit because there’s not a way to upload that to Kbin right now and I don’t want to link to Reddit since the goal of many here is to migrate off Reddit.