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IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025
Good news!(if you live in the US) But there’s already opposition to the program, plus it’s on the actual states to join(and we saw how that went with the Affordable Care Act).
Is anyone interested in seeing more posts here? If so, what kind of content would you like to see?
My goal here is to encourage a bit more engagement to encourage more people to improve their financial situation. Here are some options that I think I could contribute:
- relatively regular, blog-style posts going over some aspect of FIRE - “simulation Saturday/Sunday” or something; community encouraged to provide their own
- news articles with poor/mainstream financial advice - gives the community a chance to offer alternative perspectives, so may be more engaging
- “back to basics” series - post links or generate OC to discuss the fundamentals of FIRE - savings rate, withdrawal strategies, etc
Or I could not bother. It seems a lot of the popular FIRE blogs are getting much less attention now, probably because they’re retired and stopped caring about the blog, but mainstream media seems to be taking this as “FIRE is dead because it doesn’t work.”
Anyway, thoughts?
More content is (almost) always better. 😜
I think you’re doing great encouraging engagement. Keep it up. Fire is a hard topic to drive engagement because it’s so personal to everyone and everyone’s lives are so different. Back to basic’s could bring in people unfamiliar with fire.
I don’t really have any suggestions, but I can say that your Weekly Discussion is hugely successful in getting people to post. As you can see, you get way more engagement in the weekly thread than from regular Posts in the community.
Like most people, I don’t post or comment much because I hate all the negative responses you get on Lemmy (and anywhere, for that matter), but I’ll try to be more active.
I’d love to see more content and engagement. It’s hard when you’re a niche community within a niche platform. More posts amongst the same small set of voices may or may not end up leading to meaningful engagement.
Perhaps a parallel question to consider that ties in with your goal of helping more people improve their financial lives: What content would attract new members to the community? Naively the back to basics type focus seems like something that could be welcoming for newcomers, even just explaining what FIRE is and how the (Shocking Simple™) math works.
Honestly it’s a shame there wasn’t a meaningful migration of FIRE folks from reddit to lemmy.
I would post more regularly, but my financial situation changes very slowly and there’s just not that much to talk about related to it without repeating myself. I don’t follow outside FIRE resources, so I can’t share anything of interest. I don’t even know if I could categorize myself as FIRE exactly since I won’t be able to retire in my 40s. 50s is likely… which used to be the normal age for retirement.
I mainly subscribe with the hope of hearing from other people.
