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.
Do y’all think I should be making a new one of these every day? We don’t get much traffic yet, so it doesn’t seem entirely necessary.
Also, do y’all have any ideas of what you’d like to see in our little magazine going forward?
No I don’t think so. There is a comment here like every other day. Maybe a weekly one?
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.