This is the announcement of the Threadiverse Vibrancy Challenge!
The Challenge - From September 1 to 30, 2026, complete each one of the categories below with a unique post or comment:
- (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 fewer 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.
I came up with this to encourage a greater variety of posts and comments to niche communities, with the support from people who usually just comment occasionally and lurk.
Participants will evaluate their own progress. If you get a score of 10/10, you will win a virtual Lemmy Gold Star, and hopefully everybody will win a noticeably more active Threadiverse in the smaller communities!
Remember to be respectful and follow rules of the instances and communities you post to.
Feel free to share this with your own instance. I will try to post a mid-challenge follow-up in 3 weeks and a concluding ceremony in October in !fediverse@lemmy.world. Good luck!
for 6, i would love to encourage people to post something they made themselves, no matter what you may think of your skill level!
some comms that might suit for this (but of course browse around for others too!):
- !artshare@lemmy.world
- !inktober@sh.itjust.works
- !art_alchemist_guild@lemmy.today
- !imadethis@lemmy.zip
- !shitty_art_share@piefed.social (not a judgment on anyone here! i post there myself too :bc_smilomsweat:)
What are your favorite small communities?
Smallish and only occasionally active:
Very Small (~100 subscribers): !trainscanada@lemmy.ca !chatter@lemmy.ca - one of the comms basically only I’ve posted to in the last 3 years
!whistling@piefed.social
I got a whistling comm, you don’t have to be any good to post, just have fun.Some communities with less than 100 subscribers:
!shitty_art_share@piefed.social (post your “human-made art” here!)
Cool idea!
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip for people looking for small communities
Make a post to a community with fewer than 100 subscribers.
Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
Might I suggest you post in my communities?
Please and thank you.
Great idea, @rentlar@lemmy.ca !
FYI, there is also !artporn@sfw.community. It would be amazing if we could separate potentially popular communities from the instances running them. I could make you a moderator there and join forces in promoting it.
virtual Lemmy Gold Star
Wait, a REAL virtual Lemmy Gold Star? Holy shit
Damn man, didn’t know I could get a whole virtual star. Do I get to pick the galaxy it’s in or is it assigned at random?
I’m not entirely certain. What I have tried is ordering custom massive hot balls of plasma in space for everyone, but I’ve learned the waitlist is a few billion years long.
Does Lemmy have a remindme bot like Reddit? I’ll set a reminder for the grand kids to pick it up for me
You can ask the account @remindme@mstdn.social. not sure if it can handle a Linux epoch time that far out in the future.
Commenting to keep track of my progress:
- (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 fewer 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.
I’m going to say you are me and take that virtual gold star. That star is mine.
Wait and see me just procrastinate this and having no progress at all
Same!
- (Freebie) Make a shitpost. - Done
- 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 fewer than 100 subscribers.
- Make a post to a community in a small instance.
- Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
7, Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
8, 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.
Count me in!
Challenge accepted!
