This episode is about boring communities and there is a hot tub on the cover. Do you need non-clickbaity reasons to start your Saturday with it? 🥂

1. Social media is usually the top of the marketing funnel, and the community is a product. The top of the funnel should be appealing to the biggest audience possible, so has to be fun rather than useful.

2. Professional communities still have to have “common“ channels so people feel safe posting and feeling like they belong here.

3. Some communities prefer more channels that are mostly silent, some communities have fewer channels with more diverse action. These more dense channels are hard to follow for a lurker but are usually more fun for the community core.

Links

1. Lera took over our Instagram

2. Joe and Alex talking about dense channels

3. Conversation with Martina, the social scientist

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