Not sure you meant this to be a direct reply to my comment but fwiw I completely agree with you.

Some people are ok watching with ads because it supports creators. Some people aren’t, but choose to donate to individual creators instead. And others are either unable or unwilling to do either but the moral support of their views and comments is lovely regardless.

Weirdly, the viewcount is completely different in the three highlighted areas, I don’t really know what that means, but perhaps someone else can explain it?

I know it’s not really important but just in case anyone’s curious. The bottom right is showing the video’s all-time views (43). The top left is showing the video’s views over the last 48 hours (34). And the main graph in the middle of the screen is usually on a delay, so is probably not counting today’s views yet hence the (19).

Oh yeah I don’t care. My videos go up on PeerTube as well, don’t make any money there, just enjoy sharing my crafts with people really! I won’t deny the bit of extra cash is nice and it definitely helps afford stuff for new videos, which I struggled with sometimes before getting monetised. But that doesn’t take much, anything else is just a bonus.

You’d probably get a different answer from someone who’s into it like a proper business and trying to grow grow grow.

There is definitely the concept of monetised (ie ad-viewing) vs unmonetised views, here’s a random day example from mine:

Unfortunately I can’t see a way to filter to just unmonetised views, to take a look at the traffic sources. I did have a quick look through the traffic sources in general though and can’t see any of the popular frontends listed in external, other YT, or anywhere else. So if those views are counted (which it seems like they are from the experiment in top comment) I expect they probably end up in one of the “unknown” buckets. Whether that means it really is unknown or just that YT don’t want to be drawing attention to these services by name, who knows.

It could actually be an instance thing, because depending on what’s actually federated with you you’ll get different results.

One thing I like to do for my main tags is do an occasional trawl through the results on that site I linked, and compare it to search results from my server. Anyone not showing up is either on an instance that mine has blocked (in which case booo) or they’re just not federated yet because nobody on my server follows them. In which case I follow them!

This can be a big advantage of themed instances because if you’re on, say, warhammer.social then chances are the people on there with you are already following lots of people posting about it elsewhere and so you’ll get lots of search results. But if you’re on, idk, an instance about birdwatching then it’s less likely to already have a lot of Warhammer content federated and waiting.

One of my accounts is on a tiny creative server so I’m good for knitting content but struggle a bit with the weekly NFL live-tooting for obvious reasons!

And yeah I do agree following hashtags isn’t the be all end all (especially with the lack of language filter), but it’s a good way to start at least finding those people you want to specifically follow 🙂

Oh are you kidding there’s SO MUCH Warhammer on Mastodon. Check out the local feed of warhammer.social. There’s also wargamers.social but obviously a bit broader in focus.

Even if you just follow #Warhammer there’s a decent amount but then you can add in other tags like #Warhammer40k, #GamesWorkshop, #AgeOfSigmar, #Necromunda, #BloodBowl, #WarHamFam, #WarhammerCommunity, #Wargaming, #MiniaturePainting and damn we have got ourselves a feed going!

I’m sure I read a post on one of the communities here recently that was showing off their entry to a Mastodon-based painting competition as well.

As far as things like gaming go obviously that’s a pretty wide topic and it’s gonna depend what you’re looking for. #VideoGames or #Gaming for example gets you a lot of news headlines. Specific game tags e.g #Starfield will get you a mixture of news, streamers, screenshots, memes and of course people aggressively complaining. Or maybe you’re interested in seeing what sorts of games small indie creators are making in which case something like #DevLog might be of interest.

I know your original post is asking for “notable content creators” which it seems like you’re using to mean “big accounts”. But really if it’s interesting content on a topic you enjoy, the size of the account posting it doesn’t matter.

And naturally since you said you’re open to other “quality content” I do also recommend #Knitting because we’re surprisingly active and also cool af.

What topics are you looking for? These threads never specify what topics you’re looking for! 😄

I use one Mastodon account for looking at, sharing and chatting about cool craft projects, and another account to meet other small-time gamedevs and cheer each other on. Also ended up meeting someone from the #Eurovision tag irl last year when we ended up randomly seated right next to each other in the arena, which was a bit mad.

I’ve never seen the point of social media either unless you’ve actually got something interesting to say or at the very least something in particular you want to see other people talk about. But what’s interesting kind of depends on the person.

What is it you want to talk about? What is it you have to share? Jump into the hashtag feed for those things and make some friends.

Good effort!

Couple things: The first line of your toot becomes the Lemmy post title so keep it short and don’t add any tags (they format weirdly). Also if you tag multiple communities it’ll only post to the first.

Hi from Lemmy 👋

Happy to help! I know it sounds kind of weird, posting from another platform. But if you look at it less as “how can I make MY community with MY name on it the BEST so everyone will worship ME” and more “how can I actually bring people together over a shared topic” it makes a lot of sense :)

I do wish the integration was a bit better though. It’s got its quirks, to put it mildly!

Counting down the days!

I’m sole mod (not the original creator, but took over when they went awol) for the knitting community at !knitting@lemmy.world, and I do my best to contribute a lot to the cross stitch & embroidery one at !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works too. This is coming from a history of running various niche online groups. So a few things I would advise:

• First, just accept that some topics are too niche. They were too niche for Reddit as well, at one point. People got overexcited and wanted to mark their territory by setting up a ton of communities when they were new to Lemmy, but reality doesn’t work that way and a lot of those spaces just aren’t needed. We’d be better served combining posts from these into slightly more general combined communities, and perhaps leaving a sticky post in the tiny niche ones letting everyone know where to head to for that topic.

But if your topic is big enough to in theory get decent traction:

• Be grateful for what users you do have. You said you sometimes get “few” replies, so make sure you’re getting to know those people and replying to them and continuing the conversation where appropriate. You don’t need a lot of users, you just need a few engaged ones to make for a nice community.

• Recruit your friends. You’re a Chiefs fan, you probably know other Chiefs fans. Get them interested.

• Drop your community link wherever its relevant. People don’t like having to put effort into finding new communities but if they just happen to come across mention of it, they’ll click. Obviously I’m not saying spam, but there are plenty of sports fans here and it’s bound to come up in conversation.

• Crosspost. Any posts you make to a Chiefs community are probably also relevant to the wider NFL communities or maybe fantasy football players. And again this just gives more people the chance to stumble across the fact that you exist.

Ok these next couple are more involved, but they do work well!

• Consider Mastodon. I have a craft-focused account there too, and if I have a question about knitting or cross stitch or whatever then the more answers I can get the better, right? So I use the fact that we can post from Mastodon, to a Lemmy community, combining the replies from both audiences in one thread. Example of what I mean here.

• Create value. Could be by posting pillar content that’s actually useful (in your case could be some kind of statistical analysis, we all know the football nerds love it, but whatever will be long-term useful / interesting to your audience). Or it could be a regular community event or something ("predict the Chiefs wins/losses for the upcoming season and win something, etc etc).

• Ask your existing users what they’d like to see from the community. Some things you try will hit and some will miss, but getting feedback is going to up your chances!

That’s everything off the top of my head and it’s already a wall of text so I’ll stop there. It is absolutely difficult to be a mod, it can be a lot of work to get to the point of just having an active community that doesn’t need your input to keep rolling. But if your community see you trying, I think that goes a long way. Hope some of this was helpful!

I’m active in various crafting communities (in the wider sense as well as the Lemmy sense) and one thing I see all the time is people stressing because they have “too many” projects and don’t know which one to work on next. One of the biggest tips I always give them is to just choose randomly, whether it’s a decision wheel app on their phone, or keeping all projects in identical bags and just picking one at random from the pile!

It’s so easy to get genuinely stressed over choices, even if they’re ultimately inconsequential like “which cross stitch project should I pick up tonight?”. And of course, when you’ve got choices in all kinds of these inconsequential things every day the small amounts of stress from each one really add up. Anything you can take off your brain’s plate, as it were, is going to help reduce those stress levels albeit maybe in a tiny way.

TL;DR Yes this is absolutely a thing and an excellent tactic for anyone faced with a “decision” that is of little consequence.

Boobs are all different, is the issue. We may have the same bra size but if Im full on top and you’re full on bottom we’d need a completely different cup shape. And of course that’s just one variable. Maybe we also need a totally different length underwire, maybe I’m projected and you’re shallow, etc etc.

The trick is to order a load of bras at once from various brands and in various styles, do a marathon try-on session recording each one against the various fit criteria, and take note of the exact measurements and features of the best fitting ones. Then if none of them were perfect, send them all back and repeat the process.

Eventually you end up knowing which brand(s) and style(s) work for your very specific body shape as well as what measurements of everything you actually need. Which is a separate thing to your “bra size” although even then it’s best to do regular re-measuring to make sure your basic size hasn’t changed.

It’s a faff but it’s worth it. The perfect bra is out there!

Can’t speak for Twitter as I wasn’t really on it, but Mastodon I pretty much use for the same topics as I use Lemmy, except if it’s a longer more discussion-wanting post it goes on one and if it’s a short casual posts it goes on the other. Don’t bother much with the home feed I just stick with my topics of interest.

Often, I’ll post to Lemmy from Mastodon when something is relevant to both, which means I’m chatting to both groups at once in the replies.

Right now there’s a communal crafting event going on over there with its own hashtag, and tons of people I’ve never interacted with before are taking part, so that’s fun and a nice wholesome time.

It’s just a slightly different format for talking about the same stuff, from my pov.

Hullo from lemm.ee 👋

Do you mean !crafts@lemmy.world? I’ve looked at that a couple of times but it never had any posts even from yourself, so assumed it was dead. If you get it going, gimme a shout and I’ll add you to my master list of crafty groups to make it easier to find.

For making physical items, got quite a list of communities going here https://lemm.ee/post/224890