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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.


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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You post a lot for a few days/weeks and hope that people reply.

No guarantee of success whatsoever.

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

Or you post for several months and see your community has 120 subs but still rarely get any replies. [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That hits home. Good luck with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This may be a controversial opinion but I think it's useless to split up conversations across 30.000 communities.

We need maybe 30 communities at this point. Don't believe me? Look at forums.

This is again a self inflicted problem with Lemmy, similar to having one giant instance. It seems people go out of their way and make unwise decisions, like creating tons of communities without having an actual problem to solve.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny to see you around so much, but I agree.

I think that Beehaw's model is the best: a limited amount of communities covering a large amount of topics.

Community can ask for an additional community and discuss it with the mods.

It gives some structure instead of all the ghost towns getting into All

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think I'm on here too much... :)

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

In this federated world, you need to go to the top most populated instances, make a user account, then subscribe to your community from each instance. This gets your posts into the all feed.

Advertise your community in new communities

Pump the numbers to get into trending communities.

Make a bunch of cross posts, to "accidently" raise awareness.

Tell people about it in comments with. Oh hey, we talk about this stuff in [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

[email protected] is a nice place to promote