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?
That’s a hard one. Can’t force people but many don’t know The magic of lemmy. Does reddit still ban for speaking of other platforms?
I know I’m guilty, haven’t made a single thread hehe.
I don’t like the big threads but others seem to enjoy them. Maybe?
I’m not sure honestly. The community was pretty clear they didn’t want to move over.
I don’t really post and try my best to not really interact at all. Not because I hate them or something, but because of the principle. Although I did get a Zebralight h600fc from the BST.
I doubt we’ll have big threads. The most comments a post gets here is like 20.
Does reddit still ban for speaking of other platforms?
It probably depends on whether an algorithm decides it’s too spammy. I do see people talking about Lemmy on Reddit without getting banned, but if all you post is off-topic comments encouraging people to… it doesn’t even matter what. That’s spam.
Oh, oh my god. I just saw this community and I feel like every single one of you will understand my ire upon replacing a 6volt battery in one of those old flashlights, right, and thinking hey, fuck yeah, this beefy fucker’s gotta be lit, right?
WRONG.
Damn thing was dim as shit. LEDs win. Thank y’all for your service.
Yup. LEDs are amazing. Changed everything for the better. TVs, home lighting, car lighting, PC FPS, etc.
Those old lights have bonk factor though.
I got myself a big Sofirn dive light for the bonk factor 😄
The Convoy L7 also has some bonk factor. Can’t ever go wrong with bonk factor!
Yes, one of those might have to be on my next Convoy order…
Or the L8…
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.
Thanks for posting this. Additionally, I think highlighting some great posts in the sidebar like @[email protected] ’s Anduril diagrms https://lemmy.world/post/1038159 would be great since it shows what’s unique about this small community (on Lemmy).
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. @[email protected] is one of the most gifted modders out there, and he shares 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.
I wholeheartedly agree. That’s why I made this post. How can we drive engagement? With weekly threads, have a certain-kind-of-post day, or something along those lines?
