Hello all, I’m the mod and primary poster here.
I’m doing some tidying on the communities I mod now that I have some time, and this thread is for any feedback about the community or the modding here.
I have been meaning to create a stickied “Intro to airsoft” thread going over basic safety issues and some basic buyers and beginner loadout suggestions. Once I get that thread started, feedback in the comments by the community would be a great way to refine it.
If there’s any rules, community issues, or suggestions for community events this is the thread for it.
Hi, as this seems to be a niche community with low traffic, I’m wondering how to change that. I don’t know where the community members are located otherwise I would really love to have more regional content (USA, Europe, …).
Hi, as this seems to be a niche community with low traffic, I’m wondering how to change that.
That’s a problem throughout lemmy, unfortunately. It can’t be entirely solved with top down means, as the end goal is for a self sustaining community which means at some point the community members have taken the reins.
I do think crossposting content here to other federated platforms might help give exposure, though I’m personally not sure which places are best.
A problem specific to airsoft is there isn’t a really high quality site or sites that I’ve found to provide a baseline of non-OC community content. The popularairsoft website is okay but not great, and I’d love to find better outlets. Short of that, I plan to post some OC myself this year, but a community needs a constant and diverse inflow of OC to really work.
I don’t know where the community members are located otherwise I would really love to have more regional content (USA, Europe, …).
I don’t know these things and I’d really like to see it too. The real answer is for more community members to post and give a feel for their region and airsoft experience. As to how to support that, I can only think continuing a baseline of content to keep the community from looking abandoned and finding crossposting locations.
Coming from feddit.org and other communities, I don’t see this as a lemmy problem per se. Hopefully, OC and infos about upcoming/past events will do a lot for engagement.
Recurring, regular infos from other websites is not really appealing to me (thats what feed readers are made for). Too me, it is more important to share highlights and start gear talk, but this is again constrained by different regions and laws 🤷♂️
Recurring, regular infos from other websites is not really appealing to me (that’s what feed readers are made for). Too me, it is more important to share highlights and start gear talk, but this is again constrained by different regions and laws
OC discussion is better than articles, no question.
Unfortunately, right now on my end as a regular thing it’s either sharing articles or nothing, since almost nobody posts. I lean on the side of at least posting articles so the community isn’t totally dead. While neither situation is great, I think a community with recently posted articles looks better to a newcomer than a community with the last post being months or years ago.
I’ve posted my own OC and intend to do more, but that’s just in hopes of jumpstarting community members to do it themselves, since that’s the final goal. Also I only have so much OC as one person.
As actionable feedback, I can post discussion topics in 2026 to see if that sparks more interaction.
Coming from feddit.org and other communities, I don’t see this as a lemmy problem per se.
The whole fediverse has the problem I think, you’re right.
Maybe some kind of bi-weekly/monthly “whats my gear” post, as that is often very engaging and likely to be viewed even by people outside of the sport?
I really don’t know how to start something like this though
