I joined up here from the other EV communities on Lemmy because it seems some consolidation is going on. Now it’s looking like there’s a ton of posts all from one of the mods and it’s literally overtaking my feed.
For example, the top “hot” posts are here are SIX in less than an hour.
I’m all about getting the community active and all that, but is this really the best method? Spamming links to Elektrek or Cleantechnica doesn’t really spur much conversation. Is it possible to just slow that roll of link spam and work on fostering more discussion?
I will post less articles at a time from now on.
Thank you for listening and having a willingness to change things up. SOME links are fine here and there. The firehose is too much.
Sounds good. I commend your enthusiasm in posting, but I think we might want to slow it down a bit. Lemmy is a primarily a threaded discussion platform, not an RSS feed.
We have an influx of new users, but we need to encourage commenting.
I think as a general guideline, we might want to aim for something like:
Tagging @schizoidman@lemm.ee @MyOpinion@lemm.ee @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al @Blaze@feddit.org for their thoughts on this.
Any tips on fostering discussion?
I think it’s important to remember that there’s no karma here. Post what you’re interested in and willing to engage in discussion about as a rule of thumb. Also try and stay away from announcements, like "Brand X announces they’ll come out with Car 2000 in 2026 as there’s generally very little info or anything to talk about. There are of course exceptions, but I’m just talking general rule of thumb. If there’s a BYD enthusiast, they’ll of course post it, but it’s fine, because they’ll reply to every comment. The key is to let your posts reflect you. Articles are fine, but people are better.
None of the yous were referring to you specifically three 😂
Those are good ideas for the community. We definitely need more comments to make the posts more interesting.
I will be limiting myself to 3 posts at a time.
I think 3 is a good number I will do the same. I was trying to branch out into a few more opinion pieces to foster discussion.
That’s 2 too many if they’re going to be posted rapid fire. Cmon now.
IMO there is a mismatch of users and articles posted. I assume most users are from the US and according to the IEA only 10% of Global EV sales are from there compared to 25% in Europe and 60% in China. This is the same issue you see in reddit on /r/electricvehicles , /r/cars or even /r/android.