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There are psychological-thresholds that have to be met, or that when-crossed, are tipping-points..
3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel, or social-site community, as existing,
4x / week is the minimum-threshold to grow it.
It's actually identical to our fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health.
Going significantly above that doesn't make much ( if any ) positive difference, it seems..
( there are other thresholds, like keep just-connecting videos to 3-mins, which I learned on the ProVideoCoalition forum, a decade or 2 ago..
Also, one has to avoid becoming a 1-trumpet "band", right? )
Please consider that there are differen sub-populations of humanity, & some think visually ( which I never would have imagined ), some think kinesthetically, some auditorially, some in abstract-shapes.
The book "Collaborative Intelligence" .. can't remember the authors' names, sorry, is on 3 of those, & how to accomplish stuff, for one's own cognition-type..
But remap that basic-concept .. onto the posts:
IF all your posts are appealing-to, or geared-to, the same subset-population ( whether in cognition-type or in any other way of dividing-populations-up ), .. then that's overtaxing that 1 subset, and not tapping the others, see?
So, find what dimensions of diversity that you care about, & intentionally make the posts more diverse in those dimensions, so as to include more potential-people!
The book "Command Attention" .. by a former USMC officer, sorry, don't remember the guy's name, is also pertinent..
He pointed-out that if he wasn't reading "Ebony" magazine, etc, then his office's stuff would be too white.
The producer-of-content needs to be consuming-diversity-in-their-content-diet, too, see?
( that book contains that as 1 single little point, in the whole thing:
it's an awesome basic-training course for marketing, if you want such competence : )
Please consider the book by Dib, or Dibb, "The 1-Page Marketing Plan", as it's sooo to-the-point, for growing a product or service..
Could you make ( I've never been in that community, so if I'm botching how it works, sorry in advance ) a weekly poll about what the most-interesting new polls would be?
Harvesting new ideas, you know?
or semi-monthly, at the very least ( don't go monthly: that's institutional-inertia's pace )
Use the input to spark ideas?
& possibly, have a weekly silliest-poll item, & the funniest poll from that gets done as a proper poll ( Silly Saturday? )?
I hope something in this helps, whether directly or indirectly,
People who're actually doing contributing to community deserve support, see?
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Eh? There are excellent popular YouTube channels that post way less frequently than that.
I think it would be a mistake to try and draw any clear comparison between a YouTube channel and a Lemmy community. But for YouTube, I'd say weekly is really the minimum of where you want to be while trying to grow.
I ran a 3:15 marathon on 7 runs per fortnight, and a sub-18 min 5k on roughly 3 runs per week. On the other hand, I wouldn't dare try a triathlon, even a relatively modest goal of 2:30:00 Olympic distance, on fewer than 2 runs, 2 rides, and 1 swim per week, for 5 total workouts minimum.
Exercise is even harder to compare to Lemmy than YouTube is, in my opinion. Because with exercise, the length and intensity of that exercise plays such an enormous factor.