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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Justin Wilson’s Red Bean Gumbo. The trick is an ultra-dark roux. You’re gonna burn it the first few tries, so give yourself a few hours to practice. This ultra-dark roux takes almost 45 minutes to make. It should look like chocolate pudding and smell of toasted wheat if you did it correctly.
A burnt roux is only suitable for the garbage bin. Seriously, don’t try to save $0.50 of oil and flour, whatever you try to make with it will taste burnt and shitty
You get this recipe correct though, and you’ll love it. I guarantee.
I support the merge for now, but I’d want there to be a plan in place to reopen them at some point if/when there is enough of a user base to support them
Ideally those communities do serve different niches even though there’s a lot of overlap and it would be kind of a shame if we reach a point where there’s enough of a community ready to use them but they’re stuck with the community locked up
This is definitely the plan for sure. Whether we lock or leave open the niche communities, we don’t want them gone forever. This merge is just something we’re looking at to help encourage more posts and content in general, which hopefully will give people more reason to sub, and then once the userbase is enough to support, those niche communities can thrive. Locking those communities, if we go that route, is always meant to be temporary.
There should be a native crosspost feature allowing users to crosspost to other communities but instead of creating a new instance of the post, it’s a link back to the original instance of the post.
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