The discussion thread is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn’t merit its own submission. If you’ve got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT.
Obviously this is still sort of an experiment, but I figured why not keep trying it? I know the sub is technically open again, but I want to genuinely explore alternatives to Reddit.
Why not try and see if this catches on??
Btw, if you’re a NL mod and want to be added here, reach out to me with proof and we’ll get you sorted.
Agree with @FuckFashMods that a weekly discussion thread would be plenty until this place grows up.
I think we just need to get content and discussion going here. At the moment about three of us are 90% of the posts and comments - if we can get that up to (say) 8-10 as a first milestone then this place will feel a lot more active. I’ve noticed the number of subscribers gradually ticking up (showing 56 at the moment, but I think the count may only display subscribers from the same instance?) - we just need regular content and discussion to convert more of those subscribers to commenters!
I guess we can think also about what distinguishes this place from the content you’d get on general politics subs. I noticed the Vox article on car ownership in the US generated more upvotes than other stuff I’ve put here (though the margins are hardly big) - maybe we think about what topics dear to neoliberals are poorly-served by other news/politics subs.
Could you promote this magazine on the Mastodon instance? I think Mastodon users can subscribe to a kbin magazine (from what I’ve seen elsewhere on kbin) so might be we can draw in some friends from there too.
I’ve mentioned this magazine on the mastodon a few times in the past but I’ll try shilling it again, especially now that there are 50+ members.
I definitely appreciate you and the other active members that continue to bring content!
I should be doing more of that myself, honestly. I’ll try to do better going forward.
Maybe some I’ll also put together a simple anonymous poll to get general demographic info we can play off of too.