Hello Everyone!
I am still enjoying Lemmy and think it is a great place to be! However, this place seems to be low on any content. I understand that we only have around 2.2k people and that is to be expected.
Do you guys have any ideas for driving engagement here and sharing more of what we are doing and what we are looking to get or recently got? I try to share some lights and post every now and again, but I don’t want to make like 5 posts a day.
Do you think we should have a BST thread like on Reddit? Perhaps some weekly discussion thread with projects we are doing or maybe we can discuss a different brand or company?
What do you guys think?
I think you might have to get more engagement before a BST thread really takes off. Kind of a chicken or the egg thing.
I’d love to see build/mod threads though.
My thoughts exactly. It could attract some people. Or let us get to know each other better.
I think a build/mod thread might be cool, but I think that will start off slow at first. Which is fine by me. I’m looking at modding a Wurkkos FC13s. Looking for drivers and emitters and seeing what is possible.
I think that all of us who are already here just need to start posting more content (myself included), and that will draw more people in. Lemmy is now the home of my Anduril 2 diagrams, but I also need to update and port over some of my old posts from Reddit because some of you may get some use out of them. The more we post, the more information we have available, and that has enormous value. I personally love to see mod posts. @Adair21@lemmy.world is one of the most gifted modders out there, and he shares posts his mods and builds here. It’s absolutely incredible the sort cool stuff folks are doing to their lights. It’s also great to see “measurement” posts where folks share the results of testing out different emitters (CCT, CRI, lumens, etc.), cells, optics, entire lights, etc. That’s all extremely useful information for the rest of us. And let’s not forget about good old fashioned New Light Day (NLD) posts where folks simply share info about their latest haul. It’s fun to chime in on those, and share your own experiences and mods for those lights. The bottom line is that the content doesn’t magically show up for us. We have to create it ourselves.
For me, just keeping it friendly, upvoting interesting questions or posts, and commenting when I think I might have something of value to add.
We could probably all have a lower threshold for asking questions like “what’s in your pocket right now?”, “What’s your most recent purchase”, or even just “I love this light because…”. Five a day from just you is not realistic, but I think you’re on the right track. As well as creating some activity, those sort of posts might inspire others to do the same.
A bigger, more active community isn’t the goal for me, but discovering cool stuff I didn’t know I needed, or getting a window into other people’s passions are. I get those two are related - which is probably where your question is coming from.
Lok discovered this post on the main page and thought flashlight was some sort of highlighting Lemmy community stuff.
Nope literal flashlights.
Love it.
I agree that it would be nice to have more engagement here. A weekly diskussion thread is probably a good idea. But I think for now it does not need to have a theme, it could just be something completely different each week. Though it’s important that it’s something that everyone can participate in, otherwise it will be just an empty thread that is evidence of this place being low on content.
We could start by making a thread where people can suggest topics for the weekly discussions and go from there.
I’m down for that. It would help us find which topics this community finds interesting
Thanks for posting this. Additionally, I think highlighting some great posts in the sidebar like @containerfan@lemmy.world ’s Anduril diagrms https://lemmy.world/post/1038159 would be great since it shows what’s unique about this small community (on Lemmy).
