[Discussion] A comment on content and our communities
[Discussion] A comment on content and our communities
Hi all, just wanted to start a conversation about filling this community with content.
I've been working hard on the admin side of things the past few weeks, with most of my effort going towards ensuring we have stable and robust servers, as well as migrating the game bot to lemmy.
What we're missing in this community most is the content though. I know a lot of your might just be lurkers but the grand experiment that is lemmy will only work out if we start generating our own content.
That means posting highlights and discussion topics and commenting on threads. Don't be a lurker! At least, not until we generate enough critical mass to have our new sports communities healthy.
We also need mods and content creators who are willing to make their own team's community feel like home, not just the main sports ones.
Finally, I just want to say that I'm open to any and all suggestions to make this community better and more engaging. If you have any ideas (e.g. daily discussion threads, game of the day bot, etc.), post them!
What we’re missing in this community most is the content though. I know a lot of you might just be lurkers but the grand experiment that is lemmy will only work out if we start generating our own content.
Agree 100%. If you check out my Reddit profile I have probably no comments and no posts (I usually delete them after a day or two over there). But in all honesty, I think I’ve made one or two posts total in just under ten years, and I’ve only commented maybe five or six times in the same timeframe. I prefer lurking, but I can’t effectively lurk if there is no content to read. At that point, it just makes more sense to go back to Reddit (which is not what I want to do).
If you are reading this, search “Yankees news” or “NFL news” or whatever community that you are interested in on a search engine and post an article link to a community. It’s as simple as that. Everything that I’ve posted over the last few days was found using that approach. You never know who might be interested in that topic even if you aren’t, and that will draw more users here to comment and post things for you to read.
We will either succeed or fail as a community, and having only three or four users posting things will not be enough to succeed. A year from now I hope to be lurking again with the rest of you.
Great suggestion, thank you!
Another small way folks can help: when a user logs in to lemmy or kbin for the first time, they will search in "all" for communities to join. When they do this, if they don't find the community they want, there's a good chance they will create it.
If you have an account on another instance, take a few minutes to search for each of the team communities in the sidebar on the right. On that instance, go to Communities, then search by pasting the
[email protected]for each team (do not copy / paste the link, that won't work). Then when a new user searches for a team, they'll find (and hopefully join) the communities here. I've done this on lemmy.world, but it would be helpful if someone could do it for any of the other instances, particularly lemmy.ml and lemmy.one.