Fedigrow

The May sumo tournament in Japan ended Saturday, and I was posting daily links to videos on [email protected]. According to trendingcommunities,

• last March when I started doing this for the March tournament, we had 47 subscribers to start and 77 to end.
• This tournament we had 83 subscribers to start and currently have 112 subscribers.

It was a pretty good experience, it gave me a reason to watch the highlight videos without feeling like I was alone in the world doing so -- even tho there wasn't much discussion, there'd be a handful of upvotes for each post showing there were at least some readers/viewers.

Last March I tried posting multiple links to youtube videos, one post per link. This got a bit confusing bc some of the videos were posted after a delay. So this tournament I just made one post like "videos for day 12 of the tournament" and put all the relevant links there, updating when the delayed ones came out. That worked a lot better. First, I was making "image" posts instead of "video" posts so I didn't have to worry about whether the thumbnail would be automatically generated, what it would be, whether it would propagate, etc. it did mean I had to find a good image from the highlights, but that was OK I liked watching the highlight videos as described above. Second, it gave me a "template" to make posts from (I just took the previous day's text and modified it) which was good bc I was usually doing it first thing in the morning and still kinda dazed.

Anyway, next sumo tournament's in 2 months, and I hope I'm able to post about it again!