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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
[email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
[email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Megathreads:

How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

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How are you doing with your communities? (feddit.org)

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[+] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Starting a new community is an uphill slog. Some tips and observations:

Make sure to subscribe to the community from several of the large instances so that it is federated there and people viewing the all feed can see it.
If you haven't yet, make sure to announce the community in [email protected] and/or [email protected]
If you can think of some kind of recurring post series, it is a good structure to provide a steady drip of content. For latin, maybe something like a weekly post about the etymology of a modern word with a latin root?
In general, posts with a lead image generate much more interaction than non-image, discussion posts. So, the meme-type posts can serve a role to help people discover the community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Posting in [email protected] is almost mandatory. I saw a 100x activity on my comms once I posted there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Poop

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Make sure to subscribe to the community from several of the large instances so that it is federated there and people viewing the all feed can see it.

I never even thought about this, but it is an important and easy to overlook step in how federation works! Great tip for noobs trying to start communities and to more experienced users who aren't as attentive to how the fediverse actually works (guilty).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was like that for me for a while. You just have to try your best not to run out of ideas, really know your stuff and just persist, even when it feels like you aren't getting anywhere. And then every now and then, you will manage to engage a great contributor, who decides to post regularly, taking some of the load off yourself. If you continue to persist anyway, eventually more will come, creating enough of a community to engage in light discussion. I am sorta at that point with [email protected]. I have a couple other great regular posters, one of which posts daily, which helps me to reach an even bigger audience (effectively having double the content). Now I have plenty of content, I just need to keep at it, and keep the place alive and with time it should hopefully grow naturally.