Interaction is actually the goal, that's the reason why I decided to create this community
The hard part lately is that AI has made it trivial to generate plausible looking posts, so a good chunk of my time goes into filtering bots instead of encouraging conversation
Posts like yours are the ones I actually want here, so thanks for asking
Do you have any suggestion on what I could do to make this feel more like an actual community? I'm open to ideas
It's the same issue all over social media, I'm not sure there's a magical cure. Everywhere I go whether it's on X, Reddit, Bsky... No one is reading anyone else, they're there to push their own content and move on.
It's like the whole concept of community needs to be re-imagined. When I run my community a while ago, I made it subscription based and closed it at 200 members. Once we got to 200, you were added to a waitlist. That was the only way to make sure people are serious, committed, accountable...