for context, I am coming from https://piefed.social/post/1500502 (fedimemes post saying people go to political stuff instead of casual stuff).
I for one had subscribed this comm pretty much when it was made (moving away from lemm.ee i think), but at the time this comm was not active, there were mostly regular posts by lady butterfly and blaze (for example - how has your week been), but they did not get much activity, and there were not ‘regular’ posts posts (not the periodic ones, for example, and i saw it just 5 mins ago, the post about drying your hair, these kind of posts were just not there). Hence I unsubbed. (for example, there were less than 5 posts a week back then)
Today I got directed here, and seeing it more active (i scrolled to end of first page, and week still not ended), it makes me happy.
edit: well maybe i spoke too soon. maybe my page had not loaded up correctly or what, but now when i scroll, i saw posts 2 months old. my point is still partially correct, number of posts made between 1 month ago and 2 months ago is still less than number of posts made in last 1 - 1.5 weeks, but it is not that high. number must go high
edit2: sorry, i forgot about BoozeOrWater. I did not realise they were making the how has your week been style posts. I am sorry. (i saw the ‘It’s Sunday, how are your pets doing?’ post by blaze and guessed they are still making the periodic posts)
thing is, i am not good at it.
I’m going to be honest, when I don’t have any idea, I just look at /r/CasualConversation and see if there’s any idea I can reuse here. Works most of the time.
I try to not see reddit stuff which i never did back then. I still regularly visit r/localllama, one piece spoilers and theories, and still search lots of stuff with “reddit” appended, but try not to go there (i just do not want to give them traffic).
Redlib works fine for me
If you have any other place where we can get ideas from, feel free to share, but at the moment it seems to easiest one to use
i know about redlib, and locally host it, but that just makes the reddit experience bearable, but reddit still gets traffic.
I am a bit of hypocrite, because i kinda do similar for one piece community. i frequeent to spoilers sub because they stay recent and relevent, so i steal some posts (where they essentially steal from the real forums)(as to why i do not directly steal from forums - well many of them are japanese, and some of them are based in twitter, which is much worse than reddit), but i do not steal regular posts because i do not feel right doing that. but since posting spoilers allows me to posts more than once a week, the activity for comm has increased. and i still try to do original summaries, or even translations when possible.
I am not saying you are doing anything wrong in using reddit, i just do not feel like it.
For me it’s an acceptable compromise. Using Redlib drastically reduces the traffic Reddit gets, and on the other hand I get new ideas for this community and others.
The alternative is to run out of ideas, let the community become inactive, people unsubscribe like you did, and the whole platform just slowly dies
Do not speak of the bad place