8.27k 🤷‍♂️

That’s really good news - we need more topic specific instances.

Just jumped to the second most active community on feddit.uk.

And I’m happy to see [email protected] and [email protected] doing well there too.

@[email protected] and @[email protected].

Gotta ask why it seems to slowly decline after each influx, tho, rather than slowly rise or stay stable.

Because there is a big influx of people looking for a new home and some of them don’t feel this is it and move on.

What is Interesting about the graph is that the drop-off after Rexxit was much steeper and, despite the drops, the numbers don’t go below the level they were before.

Accident it is then.

Yeah, I was pondering if it’d be possible to make it less of an issue. I presume the metal of the discs and chain is pretty thin, so you could get to work with tin snips, a file and some needle-nose pliers. Take them off, rework some and hang them back up. However, a) I’m not sure it could be done satisfactorily and b) that sounds like a lot of hassle for some, hopefully, cheap knickknack, so I’d probably just make it have an accident.

Turn them round.

They are not being as used as I expected/hoped.

Have you considered it’s because of this?:

My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

I wouldn’t run an instance that didn’t allow users to sign up as it would impede growth and uptake.

It also would have the interesting effect of pushing a lot of the load onto other instances, which doesn’t seem true to the Fediverse spirit.

Pinning threads is buggy across instances.

I am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.

No need to be self-conscious - that’s a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.

I really shouldn’t and meme communities can be a bit hectic but it is a bit niche so should be manageable and, having thought about it, I think it would work. So, yeah, do it!

That’s enough for me.

Here and here. And that broken context link.

It’s basically beans all the way down.

There are Fediverse blog platforms but, as this is about Tumblr, what about a Fediverse tumbleblog? You’ve got:

• Wafrn
• Loforo: “Another surprise is that Loforo is the second most active ActivityPub blog platform in the Fediverse, behind only WordPress.”
• Goblin - mentioned in the previous article. It’s a FireFish fork from a former Tumblr employee.

At this point you might as well start the community. Stick a post up asking for other Mods to help out.

Do you though?

There were beans, lots of beans.

What is “real”?