"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin
"It's the content, stupid." - Quick Notes to Supercharge K.Bin
Like you, I'm a passionate user of K.Bin but lately, I'm noticing that things are getting kinda stale around here. The most recent thread in this, the top-level magazine on K.Bin, is 4 days old. Many other top 25 magazines are also suffering from a similar lack of fresh content. I run /m/scifi and it's been continuing to grow and thrive over the past 4 months for one simple reason. If you want to Supercharge K.Bin, then remind yourself of those four little words every day:
### It's the content, stupid.
This should be the defacto slogan of K.Bin - you wanna get people off of Reddit? It's the content, stupid. Stop complaining that Reddit sucks - we KNOW it sucks - but K.Bin won't become the sane alternative if there's nothing to read or interact with, there.
I'm just one person, but I'm doing my part and I know others are doing the same. If we can transition from 1% of the crowd adding new content for the other 99% to lurk and read to 5% of the crowd adding new stuff for 50% of the crowd to respond to and the other 45% to lurk and read, we'll be well on our way to defeating Reddit.
Food for thought - have a great weekend.
The lack of a mobile app doesn't help ... hope API support arrives soon.
i gave up months ago trying to get people OFF reddit and 'defeating' reddit will never, ever happen. i say this as someone who 'led' a big part of the boycott. i had a 3k member boycott server and dedicated weeks to the movement. the most we can do is post and try to grow and naturally attract people to kbin/the fediverse. dont make it about beating reddit, make it about making kbin amazing in it's own right, being the best it can be, beating who it was yesterday.
i totally agree with you, though, it's about content and interactions which there is a SEVERE lack of. people complain about that, then they don't post in the mags, and i know not everyone is a content creator but if you want kbin to succeed then you gotta put a little effort in. a singular post, a singular comment, is better than none. its so draining being a mod and being the only fucking one posting lol, you'd know, as youre the primary poster on your scifi mag.