[Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

Achievement unlocked: "The void has shouted back"!
!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de got its first thread and comments by someone who is not me \o/
!gamejams@programming.dev has been chugging along nicely as well. There have been several new threads by other users since I took over as a mod 🎉
- Well done! 🎉
- Very glad !otomegames@ani.social has interaction from people that are not me. Hoping to possibly poach some r/otomegames users, though it's not likely thanks to r/otomegames shoving all promotion of other communities into the Self-Promotion Sunday posts nobody looks at. And I still participate on r/otomegames in fear that one day they'll say "too much self-promo of another community, not enough normal community engagement, you are just trying to advertise, off you go!" I did actually use that sub normally before I left Reddit for the Fediverse. Also advertised it in otome Discords I am in.
  I think I'm also getting more upvotes, if not engagement, thanks to the home instance being ani.social and otome games being a primarily Japanese genre with even the Western-released games usually following an anime artstyle.
  
  (; v ;) I get you, I get you so much...the Threadiverse and Fedi in general seem to lack female-oriented fandom-spaces. It really feels like we're pioneers trying to build everything from the ground up. The good thing is that, since the general purpose-fandom communities are still small as well, we have the opportunity to help shape them! (I have been trying that with the more general visual novel communities, for example).
  I personally have been too shy to promote my communities outside of fedi yet... (._.)
  
  It just feels weird to be on an instance full of it as a woman disinterested in male-gazey content who is also trying to start a femgazey community on the exact same instance.
  I get what you are saying. Hopefully everyone will stay nice
- Achievement unlocked: "The void has shouted back"!
  I love this concept.

I get jealous when other people finally post 1 thing and get more upvotes than any of my 70-100 posts a month. How do they do it?! 🥺🤯😜
- You seem to get pretty good upvotes and comments on all of your posts though. But looks like a lot of effort from you!
  
  Yeah, I am mostly kidding. The stuff that usually gets the most votes seems to be funny things that get what I assume is more attention from people browsing All. Even when I post a few things each day, I try to figure which will be the most popular, and I usually guess wrong there too. It just leaves me with a mild Principal Skinner moment.
  I do get excited when someone else actually shares.
- Sometimes it's really pure luck!

Happy with !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, surprisingly active for such a young community, well done @jet@hackertalks.com
Happy with !lemdroid@lemdro.id getting regular discussion threads, thank you @ladfrombrad@lemdro.id for that!
For the other ones, business as usual
- I didn't notice you guys had a movie comm too! Added to my multi.
  I've been thinking about doing some movie discussions lately. The gf works weekends, so I have a lot of alone time to watch stuff she wouldn't be into.
  This weekend I watched a Kurosawa flick, Rashomon, and another modern Japanese movie, Departures. Also watched Poor Things and The Whale last weekend, and there's a lot that could be discussed about all of those.
  
  Actually the movies one is !movies@lemm.ee, the shows one will be about shows (to try to give an alternative to !television@lemmy.world )
  There is a pinned thread over there, feel free to share about movies you watched, or even create your own discussion threads!
- Hai!
  Just rewatching The Terminator to check my Tailnet and a family members Jellyfin
  Can confirm it's working, good 🥳
  Thanks for doing this as peeps need a place to chat even if I'm been ~~nostalgic~~ lazy.
- Wasn't there already a moviesandtv community on lemm.ee? I just posted there recently. Maybe I should've posted to this other one if it's more active or something.
  
  Hello!
  There is !moviesandtv@lemm.ee, but the single mod tends to be power tripping
  It's currently the least active of the movies communities (behind !movies@lemm.ee and !movies@lemmy.world ), maybe because of that
  The new !showsandmovies@lemm.ee is focused on shows and television, as a replacement to !television@lemmy.world