My objective has always been to back off as more members of the community step in to take part. By nature I’m much more of a reply guy, haha. But I feel some pull to create an alternative hub for Canadian discussion here. I definitely understand that my posts were like an info-dump, that’s a product of me doing it before I leave for work in the morning. We are starting to get a lot more submissions now so I will be a bit more discerning with my posts going forward.
Good stuff. I love how it’s grown and look forward to seeing more voices discuss the issues that arise.
I’m working on growing !greater_sudbury@lemmy.ca myself, and have tried to limit to 1 or 2 posts per day, just to keep them coming and leave openings for other locals to step in, but without the same kind of response.
Perhaps I’m the one that needs to take on a more aggressive seeding technique…
Well what I discovered was that the posts that would get interaction were not always obvious to me. There are definitely some where you can know for sure people will be interested, but many posts I was surprised by either how popular they were or how much the post whiffed. It takes all kinds to make the world go around, I suppose.
I also think that it’s just a matter of population. I do the same sort of thing with some smaller Canada-adjacent communities that I’m interested in, and while they get a decent amount of interaction in the form of upvoting and downvoting, they haven’t hit a critical mass of population to start generating much in the way of discussion. This community only just seems to be capable of sustaining a decent amount as of hitting 2k subscribers. My hope is that as this community grows interested people will filter into those more niche communities and the same process that is happening here, will happen there, albeit more slowly.
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My objective has always been to back off as more members of the community step in to take part. By nature I’m much more of a reply guy, haha. But I feel some pull to create an alternative hub for Canadian discussion here. I definitely understand that my posts were like an info-dump, that’s a product of me doing it before I leave for work in the morning. We are starting to get a lot more submissions now so I will be a bit more discerning with my posts going forward.
Good stuff. I love how it’s grown and look forward to seeing more voices discuss the issues that arise.
I’m working on growing !greater_sudbury@lemmy.ca myself, and have tried to limit to 1 or 2 posts per day, just to keep them coming and leave openings for other locals to step in, but without the same kind of response.
Perhaps I’m the one that needs to take on a more aggressive seeding technique…
Well what I discovered was that the posts that would get interaction were not always obvious to me. There are definitely some where you can know for sure people will be interested, but many posts I was surprised by either how popular they were or how much the post whiffed. It takes all kinds to make the world go around, I suppose.
I also think that it’s just a matter of population. I do the same sort of thing with some smaller Canada-adjacent communities that I’m interested in, and while they get a decent amount of interaction in the form of upvoting and downvoting, they haven’t hit a critical mass of population to start generating much in the way of discussion. This community only just seems to be capable of sustaining a decent amount as of hitting 2k subscribers. My hope is that as this community grows interested people will filter into those more niche communities and the same process that is happening here, will happen there, albeit more slowly.
I see you in my feed every day, and every time I think “huh, I’m glad someone is doing it”
Keep on keeping on. You’ve got my support anyway.