Hey,
Thank you for your post.
We are indeed getting a bit more activity, overall there are 625 weekly users, 1.3k monthly active users, so it's quite okay for this kind of community.
number must go high
Feel free to post or comment!
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
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Casual Conversation
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thing is, i am not good at it.
I'm going to be honest, when I don't have any idea, I just look at /r/CasualConversation and see if there's any idea I can reuse here. Works most of the time.
I try to not see reddit stuff which i never did back then. I still regularly visit r/localllama, one piece spoilers and theories, and still search lots of stuff with "reddit" appended, but try not to go there (i just do not want to give them traffic).
Redlib works fine for me
- https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#instances
- https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
- https://red.artemislena.eu/r/CasualConversation
If you have any other place where we can get ideas from, feel free to share, but at the moment it seems to easiest one to use
i know about redlib, and locally host it, but that just makes the reddit experience bearable, but reddit still gets traffic.
I am a bit of hypocrite, because i kinda do similar for one piece community. i frequeent to spoilers sub because they stay recent and relevent, so i steal some posts (where they essentially steal from the real forums)(as to why i do not directly steal from forums - well many of them are japanese, and some of them are based in twitter, which is much worse than reddit), but i do not steal regular posts because i do not feel right doing that. but since posting spoilers allows me to posts more than once a week, the activity for comm has increased. and i still try to do original summaries, or even translations when possible.
I am not saying you are doing anything wrong in using reddit, i just do not feel like it.
For me it's an acceptable compromise. Using Redlib drastically reduces the traffic Reddit gets, and on the other hand I get new ideas for this community and others.
The alternative is to run out of ideas, let the community become inactive, people unsubscribe like you did, and the whole platform just slowly dies
Do not speak of the bad place
Same. When I left Reddit, the Casual Conversation sub was one of my favourites. I don't think I would ever want to be a moderator, but if I were to moderate a sub (or a comm), it would be this one.
I haven't seen the meme before, but I do agree with it. Especially in the instance I am federated from, we are political in nature. And while I am aligned with a lot of that, it's not all I'm about, and I absolutely value conversations in comms such as this one, the Ask comms, and comms for the arts (music and gaming, mostly).
Regarding inactivity and unsubbing, I am subbed to several comms that are inactive, with the hope that one day maybe they will be. Of course, I could contribute to that as well, and maybe someday I'll make that my focus. I think if you are subbed to a comm on your own instance and it is inactive, you can petition staff to take it over. I don't think I'd want to do that (be admin & moderator of a comm) but the option is there. To not only be a part of bringing the comm back to activity, but having some say in its direction as well.
I think if you are subbed to a comm on your own instance and it is inactive, you can petition staff to take it over. I don’t think I’d want to do that (be admin & moderator of a comm) but the option is there. To not only be a part of bringing the comm back to activity, but having some say in its direction as well.
That makes sense. Usually an inactive community still has a lot of subscribers, so it can help to either take the community over, or redirect an adjacent community that is more active.
well my unsubbing is a bit different. I rarely subscribe stuff in a website interface. I like rss feeds. so if i find a website, a threadiverse community or something, I subscribe to them via rss. and for that I just have text file of all feeds, and unsubbing means just commenting out. it also leaves a mark (in case I ever want to try again for example). I have thought about this that the current way i do, my subscription is not visible in website metrics, and for small websites/comms this is bad, but i do not like being dependent on a website.
I looked for it in the past. I think it gets drowned out by the political and news communities in my feed.
Piefed has personal feeds that you can customize, I keep for instance all my tech-related communities in a "tech" feed so that this kind of communities are not drown by it.
You can also subscribe to public feeds like: https://piefed.zip/f/casual@piefed.social
https://piefed.zip/ is a good instance (latest monthly report: https://lemmy.zip/post/52485712), you can import your subscriptions and blocks from Lemmy in a few clicks.
I should make an alt. One of those things I keep telling myself to do.