To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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In terms of growing a community, I think it is usually better to 'drip' than to to 'dump'. It gives more chances for a post to hit the top of /all, and it keeps the community fresh in the minds of users.
That being said, 'dripping' requires more work to space out the posts, and I don't always practice what I preach...
I prefer the drip-feed as a regular user. Seeing a big influx of posts in one day from a community I follow tends to drown out other communities I follow, and feels intimidating. I've currently signed up to see bunnies, owls, foxes, and snakes. If I see mostly snakes at the expense of foxes, owls, and bunnies I'm not going to be too thrilled. (In practice, this doesn't happen, [email protected] isn't that active, if you like snakes please post! I do whenever I run across some pleasing snake content in my regular internet browsing, maybe I should put more effort into explicitly finding snake and fox stuff again…)
I am more willing to let it go if I followed some giant community with lots of subscribers, because what did I expect, a big community is going to have lots of people wanting to post stuff. But if it is a small niche…
As a poster trying to keep Lemmy active and as a mod, I find things in bursts. So I break them up with https://schedule.lemmings.world/. Post one thing right now, do all the rest on that scheduler so they come out a couple days from now. That way I still get to "post" all at once—just into the scheduler, which will actually submit the posts in a more spaced out manner for me.
Thanks for the reply, and oolala, that scheduler sounds groovy! Main concerns-- 1) as it needs my ID & PW to login, I'm naturally a bit wary. Do we know how safe this tool is?
So I think I'd need to pre-upload my images somewhere else, but I haven't found the right place just yet. I suppose I might test out Google Drive at some point, but the file-name system is ridiculous. Look at the link at the bottom of my post here: https://lemm.ee/post/53557900
Oh boy. Well at least you can always obscure it with [text to click of a more reasonable length](the super long URL).
I think most people's solution is to use some kind of scheduling tool to rate-limit the drip as individual posts. I guess the argument is that since Lemmy is small enough, those who browse by new get overwhelmed by back-to-back posts to the same community.
if you HATE the withholding, i say follow your instinct and stay true to yourself.