After so much time spent railing against Reddit mods it feels so weird to be called "the mod" now. But yeah no this sub is a ghost town. I've linked back here from Star Trek subs on Reddit and Lemmy but no one is taking the bait. I think it's equal parts Mainchan not having a lot of users, nuTrek sucking double Klingon dicks for so long it's eroded the fan base, and other Star Trek forums already having dedicated users that aren't really looking for a new home base.
Guess the plan is just to keep this sub stocked with Trek news and reviews and take an "If you build it they will come" type approach. Thanks for being the first regular 'round here BTW. If we ever get single user flairs I'll anoint you with a title or something.
The problem here isn't really features, it's the Empty Restaurant Problem. Mainchan lacks the social proof to attract new users. They come, see just a few users making posts with no replies and few upvotes and they leave thinking this isn't a place where they'll find any social interaction. Then they go to a place like Lemmy/Kbin and see many users making many posts with many upvotes and many replies and they join there because Lemmy has demonstrated social proof that a mass of users will interact with them which is after all what social media sites are for.
Now one can fake social proof, there's companies for that that'll flood the place with real-looking traffic to eliminate the empty restaurant look. That's basically what Reddit did, they had everyone in the company posting and commenting under multiple accounts and employed bots to make even more posts and comments so that the site looked like it was hopping on day one. So, when Digg imploded Reddit looked like the happening place to be for the real users looking for a new platform.
For large scale growth you need users to get users. Most sites and influencers choose to fake it til they make it by using Social Proof services to boost their numbers at the start. The other route is a big ad campaign which may or may not work on it's own. A combo of the two though usually does it. That or have the one in a billion luck that your unique content goes viral (which is kinda advertising in it's own way).
Only real problems I had with episode one were some geek nitpicks.
They were headed for the Borg cube super fast, if a cube was that close to Federation space I feel like that would have been a huge issue for Starfleet. Second I dislie that it seems the writers are totally against Janeway's solution to Tuvix. Tuvix was a trolley problem, there was no 100% right answer and Janeway chose the solution that saved the most lives. It's great fodder for philosophical and ethical debate but to come down and declare either choice as definitively right seems wrong. But then they did ultimately have their cake and eat it too by forcing a situation where no technically sentient life was lost splitting up the blob creature in then end so shrug I guess. In any even revisiting Voyager is aalway very welcome.
Episode 2 I gotta admit, I loved Moopsie. It's the cute bone-drinking Pokemon I never knew I wanted. Rest of the episode was meh, I'm so over Mariner's disrespect for chain of command, rebelious schtick. If they could just drop that from now on the show would improve a lot.
Just enjoying the vanlife. Me and my dog rocking up to scenic vistas and staying a while 'til it's time to move on to the next. Note: The pic isn't my rig, my dog's a Rottie and my van's a shuttle bus.
Just to calm the nerves of anyone expecting to still be alive in 2029 or 2036, the "expected impact" asteroid mentioned is Apophis which is no longer considered to in danger of hitting us. It was ruled out between 2008-2013 after the patent mentioning it was applied for so the author's mention of it was the correct understanding at the time.
In any event I'd love to see a comparison of these patents (by a qualified physicist or engineer) with those of Salvatore Cezar Pais' patents here and here which are similar sci-fi level, UAP style tech.
The infosec world is full of activity. It hasn't slowed down in the least. The mainstream news orgs cover it less but you can check out sites like https://thehackernews.com or https://cybersecuritynews.com and see that the blackhats are always up to something.
Some s/aww or s/cats material. s/Random is soaking up all the posts. In other news now I want a Cheetah.
After so much time spent railing against Reddit mods it feels so weird to be called "the mod" now. But yeah no this sub is a ghost town. I've linked back here from Star Trek subs on Reddit and Lemmy but no one is taking the bait. I think it's equal parts Mainchan not having a lot of users, nuTrek sucking double Klingon dicks for so long it's eroded the fan base, and other Star Trek forums already having dedicated users that aren't really looking for a new home base.
Guess the plan is just to keep this sub stocked with Trek news and reviews and take an "If you build it they will come" type approach. Thanks for being the first regular 'round here BTW. If we ever get single user flairs I'll anoint you with a title or something.
The problem here isn't really features, it's the Empty Restaurant Problem. Mainchan lacks the social proof to attract new users. They come, see just a few users making posts with no replies and few upvotes and they leave thinking this isn't a place where they'll find any social interaction. Then they go to a place like Lemmy/Kbin and see many users making many posts with many upvotes and many replies and they join there because Lemmy has demonstrated social proof that a mass of users will interact with them which is after all what social media sites are for.
Now one can fake social proof, there's companies for that that'll flood the place with real-looking traffic to eliminate the empty restaurant look. That's basically what Reddit did, they had everyone in the company posting and commenting under multiple accounts and employed bots to make even more posts and comments so that the site looked like it was hopping on day one. So, when Digg imploded Reddit looked like the happening place to be for the real users looking for a new platform.
For large scale growth you need users to get users. Most sites and influencers choose to fake it til they make it by using Social Proof services to boost their numbers at the start. The other route is a big ad campaign which may or may not work on it's own. A combo of the two though usually does it. That or have the one in a billion luck that your unique content goes viral (which is kinda advertising in it's own way).
My mother and aunt are teachers. I feel this one.
Only real problems I had with episode one were some geek nitpicks.
They were headed for the Borg cube super fast, if a cube was that close to Federation space I feel like that would have been a huge issue for Starfleet. Second I dislie that it seems the writers are totally against Janeway's solution to Tuvix. Tuvix was a trolley problem, there was no 100% right answer and Janeway chose the solution that saved the most lives. It's great fodder for philosophical and ethical debate but to come down and declare either choice as definitively right seems wrong. But then they did ultimately have their cake and eat it too by forcing a situation where no technically sentient life was lost splitting up the blob creature in then end so shrug I guess. In any even revisiting Voyager is aalway very welcome.
Episode 2 I gotta admit, I loved Moopsie. It's the cute bone-drinking Pokemon I never knew I wanted. Rest of the episode was meh, I'm so over Mariner's disrespect for chain of command, rebelious schtick. If they could just drop that from now on the show would improve a lot.
Thanks, I think so too.
Just enjoying the vanlife. Me and my dog rocking up to scenic vistas and staying a while 'til it's time to move on to the next. Note: The pic isn't my rig, my dog's a Rottie and my van's a shuttle bus.
Just to calm the nerves of anyone expecting to still be alive in 2029 or 2036, the "expected impact" asteroid mentioned is Apophis which is no longer considered to in danger of hitting us. It was ruled out between 2008-2013 after the patent mentioning it was applied for so the author's mention of it was the correct understanding at the time.
In any event I'd love to see a comparison of these patents (by a qualified physicist or engineer) with those of Salvatore Cezar Pais' patents here and here which are similar sci-fi level, UAP style tech.
The infosec world is full of activity. It hasn't slowed down in the least. The mainstream news orgs cover it less but you can check out sites like https://thehackernews.com or https://cybersecuritynews.com and see that the blackhats are always up to something.