I’ve noticed occasionally well-meaning people trying to start communities, or move them to new instances, promptly filling the void in what I’d call “linkdumping”. This is when someone creates a bunch of link posts to a variety of articles, sometimes from a single site, but often from a few, all related to the community’s topic/focus. At a glance it’s similar to spam, but I think it’s sort of wrong to label it as such, as on further inspection you can tell that the intent is different.

Unfortunately linkdumping tends to overlook the impact this has on the community’s appearance to casual browsers, and how they’ll be able to maintain visibility after the initial spate of posts. Instead whenever possible I think people considering creating new communities should be encouraged to pace their posts throughout the day/week/etc.

That’s a little much to do manually, so that’s where pointing them to Lemmy Schedule, if the community is on a Lemmy site anyway, can help.

At the same time, it may be worth requesting that Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed devs consider adding post scheduling features for admins/moderators in some capacity. This would help those trying to build communities provide them with regular activity without having to do so manually and get burnt out.

But what do you think?