With possumpat.io going offline soon, I figured it’s worth talking about where to move what little content gets posted here. There’s Gundam and Gunpla comms on both world and Blåhaj, but they’re pretty dead with inactive mods. The logical home would seem to be ani.social, but there’s no existing comm there.

I have zero interest in being a mod. Dunno if anyone else wants to give it a whirl, or if there are active comms I missed. The other option is to just be a very small minority in the general anime comms. Which is probably the logical choice, just kind of a bummer since Gundam is very much its own thing at this point. Huge in the grand scheme of things, but there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of overlap with the general Lemmy demographic.

  • PinGZ@infosec.pub
    2·
    4 days ago

    I just stumbled across your comm so don’t have a lot of familiarity with it, but it would be awfully sad to not have a gundam comm around. Hopefully you find a new home and I’ll look forward to more posts and memes wherever you land at.

    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOP
      1·
      4 days ago

      Thanks for the kind words. At the moment, it looks like nobody wants to mod (myself included lol). The path of least resistance would probably be to just start posting on the .world comm, which is basically abandoned.

  • Yokozuna@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 days ago

    Hey, thanks for the tag. Here’s my two cents.

    I think basically being absorbed into a general anime community would be the best bet, as you said. If there just isn’t a large number of people, then fragmenting the general community doesn’t seem like a good idea even though having a Gundam space is ideal. If Lemmy grows in size and Gundam, for some reason, gets more popular, maybe it would be the time to branch off. Even lumping Gundam into a larger Mecha community would be worth it. But to me it’s all about where the people are at.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 days ago

      I probably wouldn’t be able to contribute much to a Gundam community in the near future since I plan to skip the next show. I also haven’t been able to do much Gunpla building lately since I’ve been focused on game dev (and I just set a hard deadline for my game by booking a table at a local convention at the end of March, so I won’t be able to take a break from that any time soon.)

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      12 days ago

      Not interested in modding, my plate is already over-full, sorry.

      I would be fine with the community migrating to ani.social or anywhere else and would be happy to continue commenting as I have been

  • just some guy@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    12 days ago

    Thanks for the tag, didn’t realize the server was going down.

    If a general gundam comm won’t mind us, I’d be okay with merging into them.

    I’m not opposed to creating a new comm for general gundam stuff though. I can’t imagine there’s too much muss with it.

    Edit: thought this was gunpla comm, not gundam

    Edit 2: if we want to aim for an existing vs new comm I think the blahaj one might be best. Idk for sure, just going off what I see from the world vs blahaj comms at a cursory glance

    • wjs018@ani.social
      2·
      12 days ago

      Sorry to hear about the instance going down!

      I don’t really know much about Gundam (only watched Wing), but I am fairly confident that it and related topics (gunpla, etc.) would be completely within the purview of the types of communities welcome on ani.social. I am not an admin over there, but have had good experiences there with hitagi and the other communities that have built up over there.

      Somebody else that might be able to provide some perspective is @NineSwords@ani.social since they used to run the Light Novels community on the ml instance. However, they migrated the community to ani.social and I think it has been fairly successful and seen growth since.

      If a new community is decided on (anywhere, not just ani.social) that you want people to know about, feel free to make a post to the !anime@ani.social community publicizing it. Good luck!

      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOP
        2·
        12 days ago

        I appreciate the feedback! Maybe there’s someone on the ani.social site that would be interested in modding. I am well aware that it’s a thankless job… my younger self might have been eager to give it a whirl but these days I don’t have the bandwidth lol.

        • NineSwords@ani.social
          3·
          12 days ago

          Hey there, I’ve gone through a similar problem as @wjs018@ani.social mentioned.

          I’ve run the LightNovel community on the .ml instance, which was basically dead, and for a year, it was for the most part just me posting each and every week into the void about what I’ve read and me trying to drum up support for it over on Reddit. During this time I’ve got told a few times that I should migrate to a different instance since this was a bad place on .ml but, you know, I’ve invested time into that community, and there were a few people every now and then that I didn’t want to lose. But after thinking about it for a long while, I decided to migrate to !lightnovels@ani.social where the reception was a lot better by comparison. We’re not exactly exploding in popularity or anything but at least there I feel like part of the group and not some outcast who dared to crash the party. If I needed help I got users reach out to me offering it. A very special thanks to [@I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ @lemmy.sdf.org](https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ and @wjs018@ani.social who really got out of their way to help me time and again. Trust me, when coming from a dead community on an instance that doesn’t want you that a huge thing.

          Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I think moving communities can be a great decision and that it’s important to move somewhere where the community can belong. I can’t speak for @hitagi@ani.social but I guess that GunPla is something that wouldn’t be misplace on ani.social.

          Next is about modding. Let me tell you that in almost a year so far there hasn’t been a single instance where I had to mod anything. One time someone posted a Chinese or Korean light novel and I pointed that out that this is for Japanese light novels only but looking back on it now I feel like that was an clear error on my part. If I had just done nothing it would have been better and might have grown the community instead of pushing someone away. I don’t expect that a GunPla community would explode to such popularity that it would take much work to mod it.

          The other side is the content. I don’t see this as mod work necessarily but just having a community existing doesn’t mean that people will come and fill it up with content. For the most part it will be up to you to fill it up and make it someplace users might be interested to visit. That’s where I’m struggling with the most to be honest. I tried to speed things up with several community building hacks like a discord server and hosting a Minecraft instance but nothing really took off. I think just posting content is the best way to go. I’m not versed enough into GunPla to know how much news/content/discussion there is. It’s something you’ll have to decide on your own if you’re willing to invest that much time into it. Until there’s some resonance it will feel very soul crushing, I can tell you that much.

          Whatever you decide to do with your community, feel free to hit me up if you have any question. Best of luck.

          • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.netOP
            2·
            11 days ago

            Hey, thanks for the insight. I’ve tried to do the content-posting routine and at this point I think it’s just a numbers/demographics thing. Just seems too niche for Lemmy’s current user base. There seem to be only a handful of us.

            I’m not against moving instances at all - in fact it’s kind of required in this case since the server is getting shut down. Ani.social seems to be the best bet. I agree that not much modding seems necessary for these smaller comms, hell pretty much all of the Gundam comms are free-range at this point. Even still, it’s not something I can take on at this moment. Just too much going on IRL… adding more responsibility, even lightweight stuff, is not a good idea.

            Is there a meta comm for ani.social? I might toss out the idea there and see if anyone wants to mod.