We're going to need to participate on normie platforms like reddit in order to get more users & content here. We're also going to want to have a place on reddit (and elsewhere) where some of our content can thrive and become more accessible.

Apparently, Facebook is already marking our URL as spam. I'd imagine reddit will follow if not already. So we can't just dump links onto every marginally left-wing space.

Let this be a thread to spitball some ideas.

  • OptimusPrimeRib [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Those comms need to get off the ground. The reason why alot of people are still on reddit is because of those niche/hobby/special interest communities.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      The problem with getting hobby comms off the ground is that you also need population for them. I'm running c/anime and it's great, it's a nice, small, niche community with the same politics and hobby interest. However, due to size of the community there's absolutely no way to compete with the breadth of community related content that a large community can churn out.

      These hobby communities must start small, focus on being tight-knit communities and build themselves as nice places with small groups that all like one another and stay together for the sake of growth. Accept the size of the community and accept its going to take time. Enjoy it for the small tight group that it is. Over time, it will change. But site-wide bodies and hobby-community value will only change together in tandem.

      In essence, there is a series of progression that communities must go through. Communities can't just go 1>2>10. They can't skip all the steps in between to suddenly provide all the value elsewhere provides. They'll get there eventually but people need to like and enjoy them for being small initially. Then hate them later on as hipster-posters because "it's just not the same" when they're eventually huge.

      • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        We also need content to fuel peoples' desires to frequent comms other than c/main...and not just memes. Honestly, scraping certain subreddits for content to repost in the appropriate comms here might not be a bad idea while we're just getting off the ground.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          I agree and think we ought to be employing bots to do just that. Not an absolutely enormous quantity, but enough to just to tick things over and fill in gaps from some of that lost value, this is actually a practice many of the hardcore mods employ during the early days of subreddit growth too.