🌲 Fostering a Healthy & Active Online Community

How questions, clear expectations, and thoughtful engagement with inexperienced but well-meaning users can lead to incredible communities.

The community for Obsidian.md (a markdown-based notetaking tool) has started to get recognition for being an unusually healthy online space. Since I’m one of the Obsidian moderators, and run the community newsletter, I’ve started to get folks from adjacent spaces reaching out to me for tips about creating a similarly healthy community.

I can’t claim resp…