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
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Things could be better, i guess. on [email protected], after 3-4 days i managed to build a community of 76 followers! i'd say that's pretty good. But...
I'm the only one posting there, and whenever i try to encourage actual discussion instead of just posting memes/interesting facts about Latin, nobody is attracted to it. A little bummed, but it's still early days.
And i feel like i'm running out of content to hold their attention, and frankly it's a little stressing. I don't want the community to die before it even starts. It doesn't help the vacation just ended, and i'm more busy now.
I was actually going to post here asking for tips, but this thread was just created, so this is a good place to ask, i guess.
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.
Wow, you've been posting for 2 years, I've only been doing so for 3 days 😅 and somehow, I've already gotten 76 subscribers (excluding my alts for federation) it seems the bottleneck is myself; I'll devise a schedule of posts for myself, and hopefully that'll encourage people to post.
I'm more into hard metal myself, but your community seems great! Good luck with it!
Thanks!