this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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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 federated your community to a lot of instances
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Starting a new community is an uphill slog. Some tips and observations:
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).
I thought of #1, but it sounds weird to use my alts to subscribe to my own community 😅 I'll try to check if any large instances don't have any subscribers; if so, i'll make an alt an just subscribe.
I've promoted it on both, gotten me from ~35 -> 65, i'd say that's great!
And yeah, i like posting etymology, and i've done it; but it feels a little dirty posting other people's work, even if i credit them. I'll try to credit them harder, though; putting the name of the creator directly in the title, and making a post mentioning them. I think that's fair enough
And for the last point, i learned that the hard way. hours i've watched as my futile attempt at a discussion sit at 0 comments, yet my memes get 20-50 upvotes 😂
Posting in [email protected] is almost mandatory. I saw a 100x activity on my comms once I posted there