I'm a little concerned about how my #solarpunk channel is going and if I'm going about it the right way. The point of it is to start a movement where people create sustainable communities in their area to focus on their own distinct parts of solarpunk. The reason for this channel to begin with has to do with my community building toolbox I'm trying to build on top of Friendica. I'm self taught so I'm running into a real wall when it comes to altering data bases with PHP as there are at least 3 layers of code here, one the main code, the second more complex code created for security reasons and lastly 3rd party clients that make the job much easier if your bread and butter is coding but just add levels of confusion if you are a noob.
Solarpunk Philly was always going to be my first community to start with. I realized I couldn't explain the rule structure needed to the average coder if they decided to try and help so I realized that I needed to use Solarpunk as the vehicle to explain the toolkit. Meaning if I wanted to move forward and get any outside interest, I had make this channel to explain things so they knew exactly what I wanted.
The upcoming sustainable community section is 6 episodes long with the last describing the platform I've been working on. I got a ton of positive feedback what I said I was thinking about making a solarpunk channel. My first video has around 150 views which is pretty good, my second video has less than a 3rd of that.
There are 3 reasons why I can think of the drop off after the interest. a) people think solarpunk and only think of the literary and artistic works of a post transition world and not something they can live now. When it became clear it was an activism channel isn't of an artistic channel some were turned off. B) People telling me to just make it and not overthink it. Since I was basing this off the Solarpunk Philly group I had planned to start, I could have gone with solarpunk planet, solarpunk world, or solarpunk nation but all sounded more like corporate naming convention. Solarpunk USA was just an expansion of Solarpunk Philly, and the USA has specific needs to learn that other nations don't and are in a unique position with too much materialism and waste as opposed to scarcity in many other nations. However the naming convention Solarpunk Philly could easily be projected to Soarpunk Barcelona or Solarpunk Nairobi. Perhaps since it appears too US centric, turning people form other nations off. Perhaps a way to fix this will be to change the name to something different such as Solarpunk NOW. This implies that the unlike most of the genre where transition has happened we can have it now if we put in the effort. There could also be a more inclusive name I can go with. I still have the ability to change the name at this point.

I'm using Friendica, hence the wall of text, so I don't have the option to give polls (hopefully a feature out next year). Please put you answers in the comments

Were you hoping for a channel more on art and less activism? Are you turned off by the name if you are now from the US? Is solarpunk NOW a better name or do you have an even better name than Solarpunk USA? Am I just overthinking all of this? (the answer is yes but marketing involves overthinking things and I don't have marketing money cause this is all free)