It’s very quiet in my local community one. Mostly just me posting about interesting stuff I hear about in my town, though I have a few people following and liking things… which is cool? I really miss the my local community subreddits, so my hope is someday others from my town stumble onto it and we can all hang out online instead of in person like a real community.

it’s quiet, pretty much just me posting and a handful of people upvoting, never really any comments. i hope this changes soon. people need to interact more. i don’t mind being the only content generator for now, but it’s pretty lonely

I run two smaller magazines which don’t get posts frequently. I also don’t feel comfortable advertising them, because that has generally turned me off from social media in the past. However, I’ve been able to engage a bit with others through microblogging. Incentivizing engagement is a bit challenging, but I do have some ideas for things I could write about to stir some discussion.

I might suggest that others try it. The fediverse gives us agency in the spaces we can create, and offers perspective on the bigger picture.

It can be a hassle. I run m/FoxNews for news about foxes. The microblog is constantly getting spammed by posts having the #FoxNews tag, which as you might guess is never news about foxes. There’s no apparent way to disable the feature where magazines automatically get all content with a matching tag. Additionally, there are no notifications when somebody posts to your magazine, so you need to remember to check it regularly.