Hi all, just an update from this post, where we asked for input on site direction and growth. We took these on board, and did some research into what other country instances and forums are doing.

Here’s what we propose – input welcome before we start making changes!

1. Theme weeks, aka bootstrapping and promoting communities to r/Malaysia

  • Malaysians have interests which don’t get much airtime on r/my and r/mys, such as badminton, cars, dating, football, gaming, property, etc.
  • If we can bootstrap a community for a topic, we can promote that to the main sub and see if this brings users across.
  • This may be as simple as making sure the community has a dozen posts + a few dozen comments before promoting on r/my. So we might try some “theme weeks” to get things rolling!
  • How about !malaysian_dating as a fun and slightly clickbaity first test?

2. !Malaysia channel

  • We noticed that lemmy.ca, aussie.zone, and feddit.uk all have a !Country channel, and this is their largest community
  • We think this is like r/malaysia on reddit: the definitive way for Malaysian nyets on the lemmyverse to get Malaysian content on their feed
  • So we’ve set up !Malaysia. Perhaps we can treat this like r/Malaysia and start crossposting country-level content there! (Edit: Some complications, we’re still figuring out the optimal pattern for this)

3. Upgrades and mobile apps

  • We’re hearing a bunch of feedback that Lemmy is hard to get into, especially on mobile.
  • 0.18.1 finally dropped today with a bunch of quality-of-life fixes (it’s a week late). So we’re taking the site down tonight to upgrade! Should be about 15 mins if nothing goes wrong. Upgrade complete!
  • Once we’re up to date, we’ll add recommendations for trusted iOS and Android apps to our switching guide! Recommendations added!

4. Improving moderator coordination

  • The admin team’s main role with growth is to create opportunities for r/Malaysia users to visit and give us a try. But once they get here, we need communities’ help to convince them to create an account and stick around!
  • And this will only happen if the whole experience is compelling: Sticky and unique content, good discussions, an interesting default frontpage.
  • We feel this may need closer coordination with community mods. What works best? Should we start a Discord? Long-lived !meta post? Some other channel?
  • We’re also working towards getting you community stats. Subscriber growth charts, comments per post, pageviews, uniques, etc.

Input and ideas of all kinds super welcome. Thanks for joining us on the journey of building this place up!!

  • dancybee@monyet.cc
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    Right, some few of us have to make accounts elsewhere and subscribe here and be active enoughe ther too…I guess

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        1 year ago

        Yes, we absolutely should make it clear as long as they @ the right community on monyet.cc it will federate and post, even if slow. Comments can already work, so that’s good (tho zen, I still haven’t got notif of ur comment to me smlm hahahah

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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah I’m pretty sure I’ve got early attempts to post here, and it did jadi! And I posted from my account here to my kbin mag, and also jadi, so… I can say, can confirm la technically.

            Hahahhahaha

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                1 year ago

                Oh wait, earlier my posts were on my kbin alt. Navigating any Lemmy instance via a Mastodon or Calckey or any of the microblog software clients was ^10 difficult as soon as it’s more ‘complicated’ than interacting on a single post. My main fedi account did subscribe to news at least. But I wouldn’t worry about my instance - it may be related to some other settings the admin did when Threads was announced (we turned on Authorized Fetch) - I have general issues when I need to use other clients as well.