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

specialdealer , 10 months ago

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

Blaze OP , 10 months ago

That might actually be very true!

johan , 10 months ago

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

idunnololz , 10 months ago

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

sugar_in_your_tea , 10 months ago

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.