Ideas to make Lemmy even more engaging

One thing I think Lemmy could use more of is recurring community events. We have great discussions, but there aren’t many activities that bring people together over several days or weeks.

A few ideas I’ve been thinking about:

A live, expanding username crossword where people volunteer their usernames and each new one has to connect to the existing puzzle. Community scavenger hunts. Weekly trivia challenges. Screenshot or photography contests. Geography and history guessing games. Seasonal community events that become traditions.

These don’t necessarily need to be built into Lemmy itself. They could simply be community-run events that moderators host on a regular basis.

One thing I like about the username crossword idea is that it becomes a living record of the people who participated. As more users join, the puzzle grows into one large connected community creation.

Stuff like that… I’m curious what others think.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54239937

During the Great Depression, when banks foreclosed on farms, neighbors often showed up at the auctions together.

They’d bid only a few cents, and return the land to the family that lost it. Sometimes a noose hung nearby as a warning to outsiders not to profit from someone else’s ruin.

It was rough, but it worked, communities protected each other when the system wouldn’t.

If a collapse like that happened today, do you think people would still stand together or has that kind of solidarity disappeared? Could it happen again?