• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    Even if the mod was too intense, it’s sad to see communities go when they have a following. Can they be revived with their communities intact to continue on under new leadership?

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        Two of them had around 500 users, another had about 250, and a few were pretty new—just created within the last couple of weeks.

        I was the main contributor, but plenty of people joined in with comments and discussion.

        All of these communities will be rebuilt on my own server.

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          Two of them had around 500 users, another had about 250

          Weren’t those the ones you brought over from the previous Friendica server where you built those communities before coming to piefed.social?

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            No, !fediversenews was brought over from Friendica.

            !amiga and !record pics were started on piefed.social, and they each had 500 subscribers.

            !videogames had 250 subscribers.

            !sizz, !blue, and !lumoura were all sizable, but I forget what the exact numbers were.

            !eats, !comicbooks, and !books were all new and only had a handful of followers.

            There were a few others, I think. But I only posted there sporadically.

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              Interesting. Subscribers aren’t usually the best metrics to assess a community, as ghost accounts are still subscribed, active users is usually a better one.

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                    !videogames was meant to be a place to talk about video games, not a gamer identity space.

                    And by the way, I dislike gamer culture as much as bro culture. I specifically put “This is not a gamer identity space” in the rules, and people seemed to appreciate that.

                    If you’re seeing a theme here, it’s that I am against toxic masculinity wherever it exists.

                    Anyways, it’s all well and good. There will be another place to host something similar in good time.