1 yr. ago • 100%

How to help Lemmy/beehaw go to the moon!

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

Scroll subscribed, local or a specific community on new. Your goal should be to just be aware of what's been posted already.
Scroll until you are seeing 8 hours old posts. Wont take long there isn't a lot of content here.
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

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.
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.

❤️

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Please don't treat posting to Lemmy like a job and honestly do we really need a bunch of reposts anyway? I don't think so.

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- 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.
  
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- 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.
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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You've just drop kicked the launch button that will blast Lemmy into space.

Don't forget to say beeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwww after doing that 😋

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- Beeeeehawww 🐝🐝🐝🤠🤠🤠❗️❗️❗️
  
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  That's the spirit.
  
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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!

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This is super wholesome. Good idea beehaw friend

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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 :-)

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- I use jerboa if it helps. Majority of time it works
  
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  Unfortunately my phone is too old for Jerboa, I'm using Connect for Lemmy at the moment and it works on sh.itjust.works but not Beehaw ... I'm going to try resetting my password to something else in the hopes that'll wake something up
  
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- unfortunately I can’t get into Beehaw on my mobile
  
  What seems to be the issue there?
  
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  Either just spins the wheel a bit or says there's a password error (though the password works ok with Firefox on linux). I'm going to try resetting the password anyway, see if that kicks something into beehaving correctly
  
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