She’s from Rivne, Ukraine, and although extensively trained in fine arts, seems to aim for a sort of impressionist-inspired ‘intentional primitivism,’ a bit like Henri Matisse’s latter stuff, perhaps....
I love how the sketchiness of the inking works perfectly with this rainy scene. It’s from book one of the terrific series Aya de Yopougon, scripted by Marguerite Abouet, recounting her life spent living in a small town in Côte d’Ivoire, late 70’s. At least, that’s the starting point. I’ll try to do a proper overview...
This is from the book Les cybers ne sont pas des hommes (“Cybers are not men”), in which François Landon wrote the script. The book follows a format in which text appears on one page, then a wordless splash page on the next. I found the 1st/3rd-person narrative rather surreal, almost cynical in tone, in which a couple...
Yes, I found it well-written but not all that enlightening. I recognise that it made sense for SpaceGhost/CheapSkate to build his sites out by hand in the true spirit of DIY, but that doesn’t seem too practical or advisable for most folks.
The various federated software & networks may have their weak points and inconsistencies, but far as I can tell it’s still best for volunteer site runners to work within that framework so as to remain connected to something bigger than just their little personal corner of the internet. Is it really so expensive a thing to federate? I seem to recall that some instances can host for only ~US$20, which doesn’t seem bad at all. Images are arguably best stored at other sites like Imgur, anyway.
Yes, “DELETED BY CREATOR” was the very first thing I noticed! 😠
But yes, I looked around the upper-right, but didn’t see much of anything like a “Restore” link. Now I did try pressing the “Joined” button, and now it looks like this:
I have nothing but scorn for Shaq’s whiny reaction based on his chronic unease with other big men, but… I do have to admit that he was the effective league MVP for quite a few more years than he ultimately won.
So in a general sense I’m not that bothered by his saltiness when it comes to MVP’s.
There’s absolute mass quantities, as Beldar the Conehead might say.
It’s easy enough to guess that plenty of people just grabbed a community name in case they might find it useful one day, but I’m guessing plenty of others legitimately started up a community, put some effort in to it, then ultimately got discouraged and abandoned it. A big part of that likely due to not being able to attract many subscribers and contributors.
Personally what I’ve found is that if you really want a community to grow, you need to seed it with content on a regular basis; preferably daily. Posting bots are probably a good way to help with that, altho if the sub looks like it’s little more than bot posts, I don’t think users will be inclined to post or comment much.
What I haven’t quite figured out myself is how to incline users to post on their own, but hopefully with time that issue will kind of resolve itself due to sheer user count.
Hmm, it looks like you’re mod of ~three fairly dormant communities that have very small user bases. Unfortunately, at that size I wouldn’t think there’d be much in the way of regular comments, much less guest posts.
In my case I was lucky, because a co-mod and regular poster happened to join in early-on, and we were able to build up the first couple hundred users fairly quickly.
But something else that I think helped a lot was that our community is very visual-oriented, so it was pretty easy to find users who were perfectly happy to join up just to look at pretty images without necessarily clicking links or putting too much thought in to anything deeper. So pandering to the lowest common denominator of user interest seems to work nicely for building up base numbers. That said, there’s still a lot of growth we need to do, which likely involves outreach of some kind or another.
Oh shoot, I meant the above for @small44 actually, i.e. OP. I don’t believe you had replied to me at any point, hence that wasn’t meant for you.
That said-- I’m not too sure the “90:9:1” rule applies so well to the FV. For one thing, it seems like a good number of subscribers tried out Lemmy (etc) at some point and then went back to Reddit (etc), meaning they’re no longer really here. Another point is that since the FV moves a lot more slowly than Reddit, I question whether FV users are as active here compared to other places.
About the bias of me seeing only part of Small44’s community numbers due to filtering by my own instance-- you’re right of course, but after double-checking their overall global numbers, they’re actually only a tiny bit larger. Ironically or not, most of their users came from my own instance (lemm.ee). So their numbers across three communities are really too small to ever be properly viable IME.
So something like the kbin worldnews community I mod has literally thousands of inactive subscribers.
Cruising Tumblr today, I was intrigued by the top-left piece. It reminded me somewhat of the work of the late, great https://www.google.com/search?q=%22patrick+nagel%22&udm=2. So then, to work finding more…...
I remember that craziness because as a young adult, I was working nearby and saw the smoke clouds.
…and of course, it was all considered ok.
I’m unaware of anyone at all those days who considered it ‘all okay.’ On the contrary, it put a kind of national spotlight on Philly police’ brutality going back to the Rizzo days, and doubtless contributed to Rizzo never being mayor again. And I think even amongst the folks who believed the bombing was justified, a large segment had to admit that it obviously went very, very wrong.
All that said-- yeah, as a nation I’m not sure we learned a damn thing out of all that. The police certainly didn’t appear to.
The water-prismatic art of "Tanbelia" (6 pieces) (i.imgur.com)
She’s from Rivne, Ukraine, and although extensively trained in fine arts, seems to aim for a sort of impressionist-inspired ‘intentional primitivism,’ a bit like Henri Matisse’s latter stuff, perhaps....
1978: rainy day in the Ivory Coast (Clément Oubrerie) (i.imgur.com)
I love how the sketchiness of the inking works perfectly with this rainy scene. It’s from book one of the terrific series Aya de Yopougon, scripted by Marguerite Abouet, recounting her life spent living in a small town in Côte d’Ivoire, late 70’s. At least, that’s the starting point. I’ll try to do a proper overview...
Evolution of Hokusai's "Great Wave" (1792-1831) (lemmy.world)
A short review of ***Hélas*** (i.e. "Alas") by Bourhis & Spiessert [mature] (i.imgur.com)
Haha, gotta love that last panel for the https://i.imgur.com/7UYBI1a.jpeg vibes. 😁...
***You again!*** (Yves Chaland, from "Bob Fish") (i.imgur.com)
This is from the book Les cybers ne sont pas des hommes (“Cybers are not men”), in which François Landon wrote the script. The book follows a format in which text appears on one page, then a wordless splash page on the next. I found the 1st/3rd-person narrative rather surreal, almost cynical in tone, in which a couple...
A parting shot-- Annie Gillain, a blissfully happy baby, Jijé, Morris & Franquin! (L-R) (i.imgur.com)
The back cover from the album we covered a couple weeks ago....
What I have Learned from Two Years of Running a Small Social Media Website (cheapskatesguide.org)
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What could go wrong grabbing a messenger of the gods by the tail? (***Kheti, Son of the Nile***) (i.imgur.com)
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What some Lemmy communities that are dead or very low number of new posts that you would like to get more active?
My pick is /c/albumartporn
The 'haut couture' stylings of **Marta Wróblewska** (6 pieces) (i.imgur.com)
Cruising Tumblr today, I was intrigued by the top-left piece. It reminded me somewhat of the work of the late, great https://www.google.com/search?q=%22patrick+nagel%22&udm=2. So then, to work finding more…...
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May 13, 1985 (lemmy.world)
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