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[–] SatouKazuma@ani.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@PrincessKadath@ani.social this one left me audibly laughing. Hope you enjoy!

[–] PrincessKadath@ani.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apparently me and @wsj018@ani.social posted this seconds between each other. Thanks for the ping though, Akutsu-san is in my top three running Japanese romcoms!

[–] SatouKazuma@ani.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is it just me, you, and @wjs018@ani.social carrying this community? Kinda feels like it some days, even though I'm not as active as I should be. Maybe if we had some sort of Discord-esque community, but hosted on FOSS software, it'd be a little more active? Idk

[–] wjs018@ani.social 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The vast majority of people only vote and don't comment or submit. Lemmy is a bit more transparent about this than reddit is in that the sidebar will tell you how many people interacted in some way (usually just votes) with the community in the past day, week, month, 6 months. So, you and I are the 1% of users.

[–] PrincessKadath@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago

I also recognize myself in that. On Reddit, my main was mostly used for voting and, rarely commenting. Here, since we are a smaller community, I try to interact a bit more.

My main issue is that at work I am constantly communicating by text in one way or another. I find myself quite tired during the evenings and while sometimes I start writing comments, I mostly discard them and just upvote to indicate that someone did see the post and appreciated it.

Another factor is that 99.99% of my interactions are done through my mobile. While I have a large phone (Galaxy Fold 6), it still is not as efficient for typing as a full 104 keys keyboard. That's the main reason for the shortness of most of my comments. The drop in my eyesight due to age also doesn't really help.

I know I should do better. As Zapp Brannigann once said, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised..
I am extremely chatty in real life, but talking and writing are two very different things.

[–] SatouKazuma@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This makes sense. Is there any way you'd suggest that might drive engagement to change that?

[–] wjs018@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago

The only realistic way I think is just to grow the total number of users so that the 1% grows as well. However, I am more than open to ideas if people in the community have them. I actually think this might be easier for the anime community than the manga community. An idea I have been kicking around in my brain is organizing a rewatch of a classic series or something like that.

Just a sidenote - I find it interesting that the number of anime community members is ~3X the number of manga members. This almost exactly matches the ratio between the two subreddits.

[–] speckledlemon@urusai.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All that time posting could be spent reading instead! /s

[–] SatouKazuma@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago

Lol. If only. I actually burned through my plan-to-read list while waiting for some of the games on my Steam wishlist to release (which sadly still hasn't happened; those releases really don't start trickling in until next week).

[–] wjs018@ani.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's time to start planning for the family to come.

[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This will either result in a full sports team or 1 daughter to repeat the romcom.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Completely off topic but I fuckin love the fact that there's a whole instance for bookworm haha

[–] neshura@bookwormstory.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ani.social didn't exist back then (or I didn't know about it) and since we needed at least two communities to prevent whole volume readers from catching stray spoilers...

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

Wild. I love that. Makes me think of...

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[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Aaaaa. I haven't read this in months. Time to reread it from the beginning again