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
White Belt Wednesday was super helpful to me on the subreddit. And though I'll be testing for my yellow in a few weeks (!!!) I have a feeling something like that would continue to be valuable well into the future. And we'll definitely need a wiki of some sort eventually if we want to keep growing, whether that means copying over the old one or creating something new. Those things are a huge part of why so many subreddits were invaluable to people.
Other than that, keep on trucking! 100 subscribers seems like a small milestone, but building these sorts of communities takes time. If you build it, they will come, so on and so forth.
Good luck with the yellow belt! I'm looking into bots for lemmy so I could start up something similar, but in the meantime don't hesitate to ask any questions!