Here's an idea for my fellow Lemmings, Piefedians and others, about a fun little challenge we could run in the month of September, to encourage a greater variety of posts across our communities with help from people who usually lurk or only occasionally comment. Each person would score themselves on an attempt to make 10 contributions across some defined categories in a month. What do you think?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

My first draft of the 10 categories:

Vibrancy Challenge Categories

(Freebie) Make a shitpost.
Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
Make a post to a community with less than 100 subscribers.
Make a post to a community in a small instance.
Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.

Feedback welcome.

Update: Reception seems good. I'll post something shortly here and on my home instance.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

I really like this idea and think it's awesome!

[–] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

So I would just have to return to the way I've been posting before August hehe

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

... Damn, this is a really cool idea.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can I ask why you didn't use Fediverse instead of threadaverse? I think the idea is great, but it makes me think of Meta.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Threadiverse is the thread-based subset of the Fediverse (primarily Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin).

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know, but Meta ruined that name IMO.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 15 points 1 week ago

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use Threadiverse to mean Lemmy Piefed Kbin and similar part of the Fediverse, nothing to do with Meta. I selected this terminology to differentiate it from microblogging platforms like Mastodon, though they are absolutely welcome to participate by posting to Lemmy and Piefed communities. With character limits and other structural design differences I suppose it is just a harder challenge. If you have suggestions for another name to describe topic-based online socializing I'm all ears.

Through the 10th proposed category, I'm hoping to make people aware of that connection to the wider Fediverse with links to Masto, PeerTube etc.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I would just use Fediverse since it's your ultimate goal to include them anyway. It would be great if they joined in the challenge in their own way anyway.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Keep using it, I use it too.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 1 week ago

The name threadyverse is much older that metas threads.

[–] discoplasm@quokk.au 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i will have upheaval because of moving but will try to do my best for threadtember 🫡 a couple of the suggested categories are things i already do so that takes a little pressure off

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Threadtember is a neat name, I'll see what catches on. Good luck with the move (and the challenge).

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Support given. Categories?

post one video
post one image
post one question to the fediverse e.g askfeddit
post one article you read
post one comment with an opinion
post one comment saying thank you
make one positive post

Uh... Can't think of anything else. Maybe post 2 videos instead of 1?

Maybe make a comment on a video or post on or linking to another fediverse platform e.g comment on a peertube video or share a peertube video.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago

I’ve only posted two or three times but I can try to help out here.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

This is such a fun challenge idea!!

[–] backpedal@fedinsfw.app 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What goes on the bingo card?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

See my comment

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I support this, this is pretty cool