Ideas to make Lemmy even more engaging
One thing I think Lemmy could use more of is recurring community events. We have great discussions, but there aren’t many activities that bring people together over several days or weeks.
A few ideas I’ve been thinking about:
A live, expanding username crossword where people volunteer their usernames and each new one has to connect to the existing puzzle. Community scavenger hunts. Weekly trivia challenges. Screenshot or photography contests. Geography and history guessing games. Seasonal community events that become traditions.
These don’t necessarily need to be built into Lemmy itself. They could simply be community-run events that moderators host on a regular basis.
One thing I like about the username crossword idea is that it becomes a living record of the people who participated. As more users join, the puzzle grows into one large connected community creation.
Stuff like that… I’m curious what others think.
Lemmyvision? Canvas? I think there are others too.
we need more like the reddit pixel wars kinda thing, sponsors contests…
Canvas is Lemmy’s version of the pixel wars thing, and it’s happening soon. Applicable community: !canvas@toast.ooo
The lemmy.zip folks have also been running The Button: !thebutton@lemmy.zip
Have a Quake 3 Arena tournament.
Team Fortress 1 tourney.
I believe piefed has something like that? I know it has Events with dates/times/etc…
You can probably code something up with the API. Im not sure about the scheduling on lemmy but I think piefed is cron based?
We need something unique
Not sure if its the best client api but looks like theres a couple of APIs that work with lemmy: https://github.com/db0/pythorhead
Throw that onto cron/scheduler as a proof of concept and have at it.
i’m just the idea guy :)
Gonna be honest i dont care enough to make it. But gl!
You could be the finance guy instead of just an idea guy 😉
point me to some literature on how someone would do that please
Scrolled a bit further and found this intriguing game
The only thing I’ve missed, like truly missed about old Reddit was Secret Santa. There was something so fun about it, and the system was so good. I know it’s logistically challenging, even more so for a federated platform, but it was one of the things that made the site feel unique.
I completely forgot about that and had never participated. How did it operate?
Like a well oiled machine by the end of it. You’d submit some information; likes, interests, hobbies, etc. and then you’d be paired with another participant based on a random draw with some selection restrictions (i.e. national vs international). You had roughly a month from being matched with someone to get a gift shipped out.
It was particularly fun to get to know the person both through their suggested interests but also to take a peek at the communities they participated in. You could post gifts you received to a gallery (which I wish they archived), confirming receipt and letting the sender know your appreciation.
Some people sucked, and wouldn’t deliver on their end, so there was a volunteer “elf” system that would let folks become secret santas for any recipient that was let down by their own santas. Not sending something generally got you banned from future participation, and filling the elf role would gain you general reputation within the program
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This Christmas lets buy toys for kids or something…latch on to a charity.
The world cup is on right now, why not a mini 2x2 game or something? 1 vs 1, fuck make it pong!
Oh yeah! And status updates! And quirky emoji! And reels! And an AI assistant!
No enshittification.
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I’m pretty sure they were being sarcastic. On a serious note, what this place needs more is activity in niche communities, like !syncthing@programming.dev and so on. I personally don’t believe that system-wide events like what you propose are a major contributor to such growth, but I could be wrong.
it could help with the popularity of non-tech niche communities, but it likely won’t help the syncthing community that’s true
I always liked the community events Reddit did. I wish we could do something like /r/place. I guess the next best (low-tech) thing is starting with a blank image file, adding a line, and uploading it for the next person to add a line, so on and so forth. Make some kind of collaborative artwork where everyone contributes a bit. Whether it becomes a graffiti wall, a collection of memes, or nothing but multi-colored dicks, I know I’d have fun.
uhm, idk, in my mind “community events” just translates to “something that makes users addicted”. i typically nope out of that as soon as i detect it.
but, upon second consideration, some of them even sound like fun. might be worth a try.
something that makes lore, maybe makes news, unique to Lemmy. Something that make other people want to join to participate, log in daily to check results. look forward to year after year, month after month. just fun stuff…we need a tiny bit of addiction not much, like the early days before enshittification.
ok i’ll start with the quiz: name one civilization that lived in northern europe in the medieval age and frequently terrorized the english.
Well, every year Theres a giant canvas to paint onto (similar to r/place) and since last year we have been holding our own version of the ESC called Lemmyvision.
There are also some other events that happen regularly, but those are more bound to single communities.
