Hi all!
We have just passed 100 subscribers (massive number I know haha) and I thought it would be a good opportunity to touch base and see what we should do here to increase engagement.
As most of you likely know, I am still a mod over at "the other site" and, though I have strong feelings about what they are doing as a company, I feel the community there has a lot of good people so I intend to continue to perform that role (the "glorified janitor" as one user kindly pointed out).
Having said that, I don't want this place to just be a mirror-universe version of r/judo. Lemmy and similar platforms are built around community first and foremost, and I would love to see that side of things grow.
Access to automated mod tools etc. is obviously much more primitive over here (feel free to leave suggestions if you have any) so automated posts and such are likely to be more difficult for now, but is there anything y'all wish we could do here?
Obviously one of the big draws of r/judo is the amazing wiki that Geschichtenerzaehler has put together and I have no intention of stealing that for here (though I'd be happy to copy it here if he was okay with it of course). We don't have anything like that, however I'd love to hear what you all think we could do to make this more than just a dumping ground of a few videos here and there.
Cheers!
porl
Weekly discussion threads would be nice. An older post by ConTheLibrarian also suggested posting a "technique of the week" which I would be interested in seeing.
That could be an interesting topic point. Any suggestions to begin?
For technique of the week? Maybe alternate between one tachiwaza and one newaza technique every week, or even do one of each per week. And in each post have a demonstration video and some discussion prompts like what do people like about that technique, what's most challenging, what are some good cues to remember, if this is your tokui waza give some advice, etc.
For weekly discussion threads, maybe something lighthearted like stories from training. I don't think we need to have a discussion thread for questions, I think they can be posted straight to the community since it's not super active at this point.