JohnnyEnzyme

@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you're just pulling 'best of' content from elsewhere.

  So-- IMO it's generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I've seen, most community founders don't necessarily realise that, and aren't actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).

  IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the "ALL" feed. Whereas for example, that's almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha Male Primates a Myth, Researchers Find in New Study⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the couple of books by Jane Goodall I read, there absolutely was a 'top dawg' male in the Gombe chimp troop for as long as she was around to study it.

  Sometimes it would be based on force of personality; sometimes on strength & size, sometimes on wiliness and psychological tricks, and another time due to two brothers teaming up together. Regardless, after the fall of one, another would inevitably take its place.

  IIRC Sapolski also observed that most baboon troops indeed had a heirarchy, with the top dawg there typically taking out its frustrations on the next-ranking member down, and so forth down the line. That said, he also observed that when the most aggressive males sometimes died off due to disease / etc, the resultant troops could function remarkably differently, in which there was more of an egalitarian matriarchy.

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