[Meta] Until people start asking questions to the community, we'll be left with news articles

Hello everyone,

As you all know, /r/PersonalFinance is 99% of people asking questions on how to deal with a specific personal financial issue.

We currently don’t have this kind of people here for the moment. I saw someone the other day in !relationship_advice on a relationship/finance issue that could have posted here, but in the end I guess they got their advise there.

We are getting more and more traction (42th most active community this week on this listing that excludes LW for technical reasons: lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active).

Feel free to ask advice if you need any, the community seems more than happy to help.

In the meantime, I’m going to post still another article about GenZ and trading.

deconstruct ,

This is absolutely true. I don’t enjoy hunting down PF articles to post, but I want to keep the community active and growing.

idunnololz ,
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I just posted a question here. Hope it will help a little :D

Blaze OP ,
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Oh, great to see you hear! Summit is so nice!

GhostCowboy76 ,

We also have to be responsive to those posting questions, I posed a sincere question the other day and received minimal interaction. Reception like that does not make it enticing for members to bring questions to the community in the future. We will grow though! Really enjoy being here.

Blaze OP ,
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Very true! I thought you would get more answers, but I get it slipped through people’s feed

GhostCowboy76 ,

Which definitely happens, I think right now that’s just kind of a Lemmy issue in general while apps and API are getting adjusted. It will get better! But glad to see your post as that kind of attitude will help us grow! Thanks again!

Blaze OP ,
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You are welcome!

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

I’m okay with this.

Sometimes to build a community, kinda need more people to chat. And it’s easier for people to chat around a article, versus waiting for someone to open up.

Blaze OP ,
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That could be a way indeed

specialdealer ,

Unfortunately I think most Lemmy early adopters are highly correlated to people who have their personal finances in order.

Blaze OP ,
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That might actually be very true!

johan ,
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Haha yes fingers crossed more people get into financial problems! :P

idunnololz ,
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If you want you can give me all your funds and create a financial problem for yourself 😏

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Maybe, but I’m not sure what would cause that. Maybe there’s a strong correlation between privacy minded people and financial stability? Or maybe lemmy mostly appeals to “older” people (i.e. already established in their careers)?

But surely a community named “personal finance” would self select for people who are looking for discussion about their own finances.

We could go a few directions with this, such as:

  • personal finance power users - things like churning, early retirement, and tax minimization
  • investing heavy - discuss options on sector indices and other macro level investing strategies
  • personal advice - “I’m up to my eyeballs in debt, help fix this!”; we haven’t gotten any of that yet, but maybe it’s because we don’t have the trust of the community yet

I’m leaning toward a mix of 1&3, but maybe people are more interested in 1&2. I’m still trying to feel that out, and maybe I’ll post a poll at some point.

Antiwork ,

What’s a slurp juice?

NovaPrime ,
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It’s the type used when when wheezing the juuuuuiiice

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