I recently subscribed to all of them and I agree a merger would be best. I think sticky-redirects is the best course of action until splitting again to the original config, should Lemmy experience more growth in the food subs.
I think Cooking or Food make the most sense as defaults. I personally like Cooking better.
I think it’s a good idea to merge the smaller communities into a larger one in order to improve engagement, interest, growth etc. There just isn’t enough content per small community.
When the rush happened from redditors joining Lemmy, they basically went and remade every single subreddit, not once on a single instance, but many many times over many instances. This is a problem, because now we have a ton of dead spaces across the federation that are useless.
I am for merging, because the userbase is too small to sustain multiple niche communities. Lock 'em up, boys!
This is exactly the reason why we’re exploring these options. We’re still somewhat trying find out how we want grow and form the cooking communities as a whole hence why we’re asking for community feedback.
It’ll grow over time as the Lemmy userbase grows. It’s not like people are cooking less, if anything we’re cooking more given the amount of knowledge available on the internet allowing us to do crazy creations we never thought of ourselves.
Since the pandemic I’ve gotten a lot more into cooking and baking, and it’s mostly with the help of guides and stuff from the internet.
I would make it mandatory to share the recipe, personally. That’s my growth driver; providing value.
This is true, but what we’re seeing is lack of content which doesn’t entice people to sub and slows down growth. The idea is that if we can get more people posting and more content, more people will want to sub and then hopefully more people will post and we can get to a point where all the communities can serve their own niches and thrive.
Copying my reply from the c/food community here for visibility
I am for a merge. It worked well for my communities to merge (PlayStation and PS5) and I think it will be successful here also. I chose to keep my PS5 community open, but since you are dealing with merging multiple communities it might be good to lock them with a pinned post for at least a little while.
Once the dust settles I think opening them back up (but keeping the pinned post) would be a good option to give the choice back to the community for those that eventually wish to splinter off.
I read your comment on there as well, you bring up a good point. We’re trying to grow to the best of our abilities, but leave it up to the people as to what they want to see. This is what makes us a bit hesitant so lock up any community
I left it open, and posted reminders through a roughly 1 week period. Some people don’t visit communities directly, so pinned threads get missed. This way people see it in their feeds and you can account for a few different time zones.
Ngl I do kinda like option 1 to prevent a bunch of duplicate posts in the feed, but if thats the choice we should have some kind of parameter for when reopening would be appropriate. Like a yearly check in post, or a total sub size, or something.
I have no idea what the mod tools and such are like on Lemmy, so I don’t know how feasible it is, but I feel like a good way to do it would be to enforce tagging posts, and once we hit a certain threshold of users using that tag the relevant community gets reopened
Making up numbers on the fly, but maybe something like after 100 different users have made posts with a certain tag and at least 10 of them have made at least 5 posts the relevant community gets reopened, and the main cooking community makes a stickied post and makes some automod comments or something advertising that it’s back open.
A lot of online communities get a lot of their content from a handful of power-users, so making sure that you have a handful of people who are repeatedly making relevant content I think is just as important as making sure you have bulk people who may only contribute occasionally, which is why I included having some users who have made multiple posts
Also when that critical mass is reached, some strategic timing for when to reopen them may be a good idea. Might get some extra buzz and activity to kick things off by reopening BBQ a couple weeks before memorial day when people are getting ready for summer cookouts and ask culinary around November as people are starting to plan for thanksgiving and Christmas
I’m trying to find my recipe but serious eats has a good one for not having to use Velveeta. Use evaporated milk and cornstarch with your shredded cheese. That’s their recipe. Then I throw in some cumin and rotel and diced chiles. Maybe taco meat if it’s the main dish. Sometimes avocado.
I’ve eaten rice all my life and was taught to wash rice before cooking it. I’ve seen and eaten the starchiness that happens when not washing it and the difference is very noticeable. Rice was very gooey and starchy when not washed, versus a nice firm and chewy rice you would get from a restaurant when you do wash. Also washing it can clean out any bugs or dirt. It just made sense imo
My understanding has always been that the fortified grains have been treated so because they stripped out the nutrients earlier, like with bleached flour. I don't buy these products but I very well could be misinformed.
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