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Are some questions here just to simulate activity? (palaver.p3x.de)
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Sometimes I can't tell whether a question here is genuine and the author is interested in the answers, or whether they just copy-paste something to keep people busy. How am I supposed to approach that?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Replying here for your edit

Yes, I like that. I wish the Piefed communities were to pick up on that approach. I think it's excellent and often leads to above average quality.

Beehaw probably went a bit too far by defederating LW and SJW. A lot of users on LW and SJW are valuable people, cutting from all of them at the same time seems a bit much.

I often feel the content in the high volume quality drowns out the other stuff. For example I've completely missed the post in the Fedigrow community you linked, because other things showed up for me and buried it.

You said somewhere else that you use New as a filter. Have you tried using Piefed feeds to be able to track different topics separately? I have a "movies" feed, a "privacy one", and that allows me to keep an eye on everything posted on that topic without having that content buried in the Subscribed feed.

Yeah I know. But I feel this place shouldn't be full of conversation starters. The important thing are the conversations themselves. And people like it if they're genuine. Which isn't entirely the case here.

It's also important to keep in mind that we can't expect a single poster (LadyButterFly) to keep this community active by herself. I understand that cm0002 posts aren't ideal, but at the same time they allow to relieve a bit of the pressure that a single poster has.

I am the only poster on [email protected] . It makes me question regularly if it's still worth it to post there, as it seems I'm the only person on the whole platform bothered enough to post about that topic. "Shouting in the void" is a regular issue for single poster on a community (https://lemmy.zip/post/14347368 ), and I would prefer to avoid that to LadyButterFly.

If you are interested in raising the quality of this community, could you maybe try to post here once a day? Then we could probably consider discussing with other people whether we should change the stance against questions repost. If not, it would probably be better to keep them.

I'd rather have just the interesting articles.

We probably all would, but that's where the crowdsourced voting is supposed to help. If you want to have a more active approach, you can try to post on [email protected] to see if other people would like to start a "curated technology" community with you, and see if there is interest?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your perspective.

[...] went a bit too far [...]

Yes, I think all our internal drama, politics and how it's handled in the software leaves a lot of room for improvement. We should try to cut down on that. It'd help new users and people who just don't want to talk and not be bothered with all the quirks.

[...] we can't expect a single poster (LadyButterFly) to keep this community active [...]

That's indeed an issue. I know how it feels and it takes a special type or person to do it to begin with.

If you are interested in raising the quality of this community, could you maybe try to post here once a day?

I'm sorry, I can't. I already do this for other communities. I'm also active in other areas, I contribute to PieFed development... And there's only so much I can do in a day.

Plus as I said I'm opposed to the concept. I think it was necessary in the beginning, but now our focus needs to change. I post 100% genuine questions which come from my heart only. And only articles I read and I think other people want to read specifically that article instead of the 5000 other ones in some feeds on the internet, because we really have enough of a flood of information. I don't post for engagement. Not even in this case (any more).

"curated technology" community with you, and see if there is interest?

That'd be a nice idea. I would have liked the new piefed.social communities to be exactly that. But if it were me, I'd ban people who post and don't comment. Or once I see they didn't actually read what they copied. Interesting idea, though, I'll think about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm sorry, I can't. I already do this for other communities. I'm also active in other areas, I contribute to PieFed development... And there's only so much I can do in a day.

That makes sense. I suggest to put that topic on hold for now, and revisit it once we have more than 2 active posters in this community.

I'll think about it.

Sure, good luck with that idea!