for context, I am coming from https://piefed.social/post/1500502 (fedimemes post saying people go to political stuff instead of casual stuff).

I for one had subscribed this comm pretty much when it was made (moving away from lemm.ee i think), but at the time this comm was not active, there were mostly regular posts by lady butterfly and blaze (for example - how has your week been), but they did not get much activity, and there were not ‘regular’ posts posts (not the periodic ones, for example, and i saw it just 5 mins ago, the post about drying your hair, these kind of posts were just not there). Hence I unsubbed. (for example, there were less than 5 posts a week back then)

Today I got directed here, and seeing it more active (i scrolled to end of first page, and week still not ended), it makes me happy.

edit: well maybe i spoke too soon. maybe my page had not loaded up correctly or what, but now when i scroll, i saw posts 2 months old. my point is still partially correct, number of posts made between 1 month ago and 2 months ago is still less than number of posts made in last 1 - 1.5 weeks, but it is not that high. number must go high

edit2: sorry, i forgot about BoozeOrWater. I did not realise they were making the how has your week been style posts. I am sorry. (i saw the ‘It’s Sunday, how are your pets doing?’ post by blaze and guessed they are still making the periodic posts)

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Same. When I left Reddit, the Casual Conversation sub was one of my favourites. I don’t think I would ever want to be a moderator, but if I were to moderate a sub (or a comm), it would be this one.

    I haven’t seen the meme before, but I do agree with it. Especially in the instance I am federated from, we are political in nature. And while I am aligned with a lot of that, it’s not all I’m about, and I absolutely value conversations in comms such as this one, the Ask comms, and comms for the arts (music and gaming, mostly).

    Regarding inactivity and unsubbing, I am subbed to several comms that are inactive, with the hope that one day maybe they will be. Of course, I could contribute to that as well, and maybe someday I’ll make that my focus. I think if you are subbed to a comm on your own instance and it is inactive, you can petition staff to take it over. I don’t think I’d want to do that (be admin & moderator of a comm) but the option is there. To not only be a part of bringing the comm back to activity, but having some say in its direction as well.

    • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      I think if you are subbed to a comm on your own instance and it is inactive, you can petition staff to take it over. I don’t think I’d want to do that (be admin & moderator of a comm) but the option is there. To not only be a part of bringing the comm back to activity, but having some say in its direction as well.

      That makes sense. Usually an inactive community still has a lot of subscribers, so it can help to either take the community over, or redirect an adjacent community that is more active.

    • sga@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      well my unsubbing is a bit different. I rarely subscribe stuff in a website interface. I like rss feeds. so if i find a website, a threadiverse community or something, I subscribe to them via rss. and for that I just have text file of all feeds, and unsubbing means just commenting out. it also leaves a mark (in case I ever want to try again for example). I have thought about this that the current way i do, my subscription is not visible in website metrics, and for small websites/comms this is bad, but i do not like being dependent on a website.