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Obviously this is still sort of an experiment, but I figured why not keep trying it? I know the sub is technically open again, but I want to genuinely explore alternatives to Reddit.
Why not try and see if this catches on??
Btw, if you're a NL mod and want to be added here, reach out to me with proof and we'll get you sorted.
I am not entirely sure except keep trying. Boosting comments and posts should help with visibility, at least.
I am excited to see a reddit alternative emerge and would love to see something like r/Neoliberal in the fediverse, too.
I remember when I joined r/Neoliberal on reddit it was a relatively small community (around 16,000 I want to say?) and no where near as big as it is now. Still though, that was much bigger than what we are working with here.
Thanks - we'll keep plugging away! I joined r/neoliberal when it was still pretty small too and it became one of my go-to favourite subs.
I'm really hopeful we get to that point here too. The number of subscribers is still slowly growing - the more we post/upvote/boost/comment, the more subscribers will come in, the more content they'll generate themselves, etc. It'll take time but I'm hopeful.
Good morning liberals and hope you're having a good weekend.
Also, has anyone seen our fearless mod @Crawfish? Their last comment was three weeks ago saying that kbin was everything they needed in a Reddit alternative...
Good to see our stalwart content provider is here in force.
I apologize I wasn’t logging in as much recently, but I was still browsing. I’m also a very active lurker on the mastodon server. Feel free to join that instance too.
To be perfectly honest I didn’t realize people were still using this! There didn’t seem to be much interest. But I’m glad you are here pal.
It’s been about a month since this party started, and while things are looking a little slow I think it’d be great if we could build a community here that advocated for free trade, open borders and taco trucks on every corner lol.
@Crawfish - as you're not here much, can I suggest you add a few of us who are active as co-mods? I worry otherwise that with no active mod on the magazine then its growth could end up being limited - especially important now that it's finally coming to life and we've got multiple regular posters here.
I have been thinking about making a mastodon account for mastodo.neoliber.al to go find Crawfish, but i think its invite only. I don’t think they realize their is activity here.
Also, if that server is active we might be able to get some of them to help over here, too.
I made a post in the mastodon server for r/neoliberal asking if anyone can help us find them under @CoffeeAddict username. Hopefully, he will see it lol
Agree with @FuckFashMods that a weekly discussion thread would be plenty until this place grows up.
I think we just need to get content and discussion going here. At the moment about three of us are 90% of the posts and comments - if we can get that up to (say) 8-10 as a first milestone then this place will feel a lot more active. I've noticed the number of subscribers gradually ticking up (showing 56 at the moment, but I think the count may only display subscribers from the same instance?) - we just need regular content and discussion to convert more of those subscribers to commenters!
I guess we can think also about what distinguishes this place from the content you'd get on general politics subs. I noticed the Vox article on car ownership in the US generated more upvotes than other stuff I've put here (though the margins are hardly big) - maybe we think about what topics dear to neoliberals are poorly-served by other news/politics subs.
Could you promote this magazine on the Mastodon instance? I think Mastodon users can subscribe to a kbin magazine (from what I've seen elsewhere on kbin) so might be we can draw in some friends from there too.