I have this little nightly ritual, 20 min tops, that I think is helping increase engagement here on beehaw. It would be amazing if others picked up the torch.

My goal is Lemmy should be THE PLACE to go to catch up and talk about the world. That can’t happen if things are happening that are never posted to Lemmy. So posting content to Lemmy encourages more people to come and they post and so on and so on.

To post content to Lemmy I follow these steps

Find out what’s here

  1. Scroll subscribed, local or a specific community on new. Your goal should be to just be aware of what’s been posted already.
  2. Scroll until you are seeing 8 hours old posts. Wont take long there isn’t a lot of content here.
  3. Do the same for active sort. Just peak you don’t need to do a lot of scrolling. Again just be aware

Look for what’s missing

  1. Now go to each of your other apps you use. Apps you want Lemmy to replace and look for interesting content that was not posted to Lemmy. Focused on things people are engaging with. High likes, high comments.
  2. Post that content!!!

Done. You’ve just drop kicked the launch button that will blast Lemmy into space. Don’t feel like you need to take on all the areas of Lemmy. If you have a single community you can do this for then it goes a long way.

❤️

    •  Googleproof   ( @Googleproof@beehaw.org ) English
      21•11 months ago

      Agreed, the reason I chose beehaw, among other things, was that the focus of other instances was growth for growth’s sake, while beehaw seemed to be looking to cultivate a more thoughtful, moderate growth, avoiding lowest common denominator problems that Reddit was plagued by by 2014.

      So my rule of thumb would be more to ask “do I personally want to talk about this” than “is this popular and getting engagement” before thinking about posting something.

    •  kajko   ( @kajko@beehaw.org ) English
      12•11 months ago

      Agreed. I don’t want content made for the sake of competing. I want people to post about the things they care about, and want to talk about.

      These kind of reposts feel dead somehow and just clutter the feed for me.

  •  elfpie   ( @elfpie@beehaw.org ) English
    17•11 months ago

    I believe you have good intentions and we should be posting more, but the way you propose we do it is dangerous. You created an algorithm for a karma farm bot.

    The part that you said we need more content to attract more content is correct. I treat it in a slightly different way. Just post what you want to read. Maybe the engagement won’t be high, but I don’t need hundreds of comments to feel satisfied with a discussion. A different point of view goes a long way.

    •  Pseu   ( @Pseu@beehaw.org ) English
      3•11 months ago

      You created an algorithm for a karma farm bot.

      And this is why there should always be a “use your best judgment” corollary. Don’t post shit that’s a clear meme or out of context. But post things that you find interesting from anywhere, whether it’s from another aggregator or just your general life experiences.

  •  thrawn   ( @thrawn21@beehaw.org ) English
    9•11 months ago

    Heck yeah, I’ve been trying to post both here and on a couple of my communities at .world. I’ve mostly been going through my old, never-posted photos for some good OC, but think I might also start scavenging my ex-reddit account. Anything for content and to keep up the momentum!

  •  LucyLastic   ( @LucyLastic@beehaw.org ) English
    3•11 months ago

    I’d love to bee more active here, unfortunately I can’t get into Beehaw on my mobile and I’m not online a lot these days.

    Gonna try and get the login working from an app this afternoon, then I can put photos up easier :-)