This is an old picture, so I'm assuming it was made when translations weren't fantastic yet.
dystop
joined 2 years ago
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I'm sure in a year or two "prompt engineering consultant" will be an actual job title.
That's pretty cool! I imagine adversarial detection and abuse will be an issue with many LLMs in general.
I moderate (and was the creator of) [email protected] . In 5 days it now has >4k subscribers. Some tips which helped me are:
- like other people mentioned, work it into a conversation (see what I did above?). It's especially important to do this on the larger instances where your community ISN'T located, because it doesn't show up organically for them until the first person subscribes. Find a thread to talk about it on lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works at minimum. Maybe kbin.social too.
- cross-posting in larger communities might help, since it helps others see that the community exists
- Post a variety of content - memes/stories that others can laugh at, more in-depth discussion threads, etc.
- engage with whoever posts. If someone replies, reply back to them. This helps to drive up engagement and makes the poster feel heard, which encourages more posts.
Without looking at your community that's the general advice I have.
Also - be prepared to shout into the void for some time. It takes time to gather momentum. You'll have to be that first person at a party pretending to dance by yourself while having a good time.
Good luck, and thanks for putting in this effort!
Btw i'm between stages 21 to 25...
Are you still looking? What would you like to know - the technical details, or what each instance feels like, or just a general "i don't care how it works, I just want to jump into the conversation"?
Exactly. If it's all john oliver, eventually people will get bored of posting different variations of John Oliver.
This is great, but wrong community!
(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)
Issues: As the default sort, "Active" is a self-boosting cycle as well. Active posts show up for everyone, so first-time users participate there, and it stays on active for 4-5 days. This is going to drive users away when they see the same front page after the 2nd or 3rd day. Perhaps "Hot" might be a better default sort?
This almost stopped me from joining lemmy. I was stuck in application limbo on lemmy.ml for some time and almost forgot about lemmy.
(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)
Enhancement requests: Again, might be better addressed lemmy-wide, but as a mod, I think there is no way to "sticky" or "pin" a reply to an existing thread, so that it stays at the top. This would be useful for "official" replies in the voice of a moderator, and I imagine it will be useful in future if mods ever need to lock posts and have to explain why.
I hope the guy enjoyed the extra 30 seconds he saved by not listening to you that day.