Your submission in "White + cat ear?" was removed for NSFW.

If you edit it by accessing the post via direct link, I will restore it.

I'd really appreciate it if you used paragraphs. Would make reading longer comments like that one a little nicer.

Like you say, redundant activity is extremely difficult, and the second and third posters only show up when a community already seems active. It's a catch 22.

On Lemmy, as it is new, we are still in a phase where people like you and me who are out to post things, are more likely to create new communities instead of finding existing ones where the things they want to post would fit in.

That's kinda why I shifted gears and made actively looking out for posts that might fit in in more places part of the my deal. To get that redundancy and overlap going, so that even if I disappear, others might still be around posting similar stuff, and so that the people posting to their own communities, might start posting to each others communities, too.

For the same reason, I want to see if I can get Mastodon users involved with the threadiverse. There are lots of artists over there, and they are already used to hashtags to make relevant things visible to people looking for it, so I don't think it's a stretch that if only the active users over there knew more about the threadiverse, there could be more interaction.

Hopefully Mastodon's support for groups will eventually bring even better interoperability.

I'm finding I'm a lot less frustrated now that Thunder has great support for cross-posts. On any one post you can see a list of all the other posts, their votes, and comment counts.

It's super easy to jump between all the threads discussing the same thing and participate in them all.

If the person from another site wanted to post it on Lemmy themselves, I would do the exact same thing. Encouraging and preferreing that they do so themselves.

As for encouraging activity, I am absolutely succeeding. I measure success as simply whether there are people upvoting, and therefore enjoying, my posts. Why compare ourselves to Reddit?

My first community was [email protected] which now has three other regular posters aside from myself and a growing sub-count of 1.5k.

My moe communities are very niche but my bot for posting to them is only getting better, and over this last year several other posters have come and gone, some of which are still active (most notably the other poster on [email protected]).

There's also a handful of occasional posters like toes and graybackgroundmusic.

I have even spotted the occasional artist posting to the moe communities, though as they actually do the incredible work of producing the art they post, they do so very seldom.

My proudest success has been [email protected] which despite only just hitting 400 subs, has consistently stayed at 700 mau, suggesting there's a ton of room to grow. Posts get A LOT of interactions considering it's a manga/show specific sub, and the episode discussions had commenters EVERY week.

Lots of us mods discuss how to effectively grow the threadiverse/fediverse over on [email protected], check it out!

I think Lemmy>Microblog federation has been borked for a while. I tried to sub to some of my communities to get the federation over to that side of the fediverse, but the subs don't go through, if that gets fixed, communities and posts could reach much more people.

I also want to go see if I can maybe find some artists over on the microblog side, and let them know they can make their Mastodon/whatever posts show up in relevant communities on the threadiverse by mentioning them.

It's partly an excuse to actually comment, which is a little more visible than the link of a crosspost, and as such it's an opportunity to "drop a link" for anyone to maybe find their way to more communities.

But it's mainly a courtesy. I don't want to "steal" every piece of content worth seeing for my own communities, and thereby make them the only ones worth subscribing to. Nor do I want to hog the updoot-dopamine. I want to let the people who find and post things be the ones that enjoy the positive feedback of sharing, as much as possible.

And I want to encourage others to post more and to more communities. When it comes to anime art I'm already carrying way too hard. I want be one of the people sharing anime art on the threadiverse, not the one.

Also [email protected]

She uses MSG, based.

Her Calli is good, but the Kiara is spot on.

11, on a ZenFone 6.

Might be android version dependent? Because now I'm on my second phone (on an older android version) and here it doesn't work in Thunder.

Voyager was the only one that could display properly.

Works on thunder.

Well, it's not like we couldn't fall back to animated webps for that until it's no longer a problem.

Depends on how configurable image-rs is I guess.

I could test avif for my posts tho, as I host my images with catbox anyway.

I'm certainly curious to see if I can achieve smaller files with the same quality, as it's always nice when browsing is fast.