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I’m a moderator of a smaller community. I’m posting quality content multiple times a day, and I posted about it in New Communities. The number of subscribers is low but it’s growing steadily.

Could you please give me some advice on growing this community? I don’t want to spam/flood or come off as rude or weird, but I really believe in it and think it would be useful to many people.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Work it into the conversation when you're talking to people elsewhere (I don't mod any communities but am interested in seeing them grow and this has been the #1 successful tactic)
  • Don't be weird about mentioning it in general. For example, why does this post not say what your community is or have a link for people to follow?
  • Don't just post links that people can click on, think "huh" and then move on. Post questions or other interactive things to draw out lurkers.
  • Team up with mods of related communities to maintain a list of "neighbours" that you all pin to make it easy for your users to find more stuff they're interested in.
  • Make sure to respond to anyone who does happen to wander in and leave a post or comment, don't leave them hanging
  • Advertise it on your other social media since presumably you're hanging around people with the same interests
[–] sisyphean 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Thank you, these are excellent tips! Btw here is the community: https://programming.dev/c/auai ([email protected]) - I didn't want to mention it because I didn't want my post to sound like cheap self-promotion, but I guess I'm a bit too shy in this regard.

The icon and the cover image are terrible, I'm planning to replace them later.

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

Remember most people are pretty new here and there's no way for them to find new communities other than purposefully searching by keyword, or stumbling across a mention somewhere. So if it makes sense in context to give yours a shoutout, do it! If it's relevant to the conversation you're not spamming anyone, you're literally helping them navigate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like what you’ve been posting so far. I’ve been working more with image generating AI -but I would have been interested in following information regarding more general/text focused AI on Reddit, except all the communities I checked were pretty bad 😂.

Some places I think you can promote it -
[email protected]
Any big technology community, there’s multiple on different instances
If we can find an article related to image AI, I can post it to the stable diffusion groups. I’ve been posting at [email protected].

[–] sisyphean 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you like my posts! I've definitely noticed most AI groups/subreddits being bad... The hype is at fever pitch nowadays so I guess that's why they are full of low-quality filler content.

I subbed to both of those magazines, but for some reason Lemmy federation with kbin is super slow, so it will take a while for me to be able to post in them.

I actually had a super interesting article about the "hidden vocabulary" of image generation models in my notes that I wanted to post, so I went on and posted it now. It isn't about Stable Diffusion but it might still be interesting to people in that group. Thanks again!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your advice! I‘m trying to built a bass-related community over at [email protected]. So if you’re reading this and moderate a music related Community, hit me up so we can cross link our Communities and work together!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck! If you've got seen it yet, lemmyverse.net is a newer better interface for searching communities so you might be able to use that to find some likely candidates to reach out to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Didn‘t know about lemmyverse yet, appreciate the tip! Already found some communities I‘ll get in contact with, thanks