grow!
Imagine if everyone who made this kind of post, made a post on their fav niche sub instead.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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literally this. i see a lot of mods of niche communities working their ass off trying to generate content with 0 help, including me. and all people do is complain that they aren’t doing enough, it’s not active enough, while doing nothing to help it grow.
be the change you want to see. contribute to your communities, especially niche ones.
I would like to do this but I’m basically a waste of space, and not really capable of either thought provoking questions or funny/engaging content for the things I want to be part of. I can engage with others, but I’m not unique or creative enough for starting the conversation (same in person actually).
I know this because I tried several times many years ago to run my own Facebook pages for… well I tried various things and got very little engagement on any of it when Facebook pages were peak social media.
I know random facts about random science things that most people don’t understand (I probably don’t either, but I think I do!), but nothing that would actually grow any of the communities I’d like to see grow.
So while it is exactly that easy, it’s not necessarily that easy.
Honestly, even just making lame comments and upvoting is helpful. It shows the people creating things that what they are doing is working which will encourage them and others to post more.
And this is what I do (though I try to add to the conversation mostly), I’ve even started upvoting actual posts if I read them and learned or whatever, which is something I only did on reddit when sorting by new. The new habits are super difficult.
I’ve been way way more active here in way more diverse places than I maybe should be (I usually browse -all- right now to sub/block communities, and chime in on a ton of posts I don’t sub) so I hope it helps the posters, and I know it helps the statistics, but it isn’t the same as raw new content.
Fwiw, I’m not even deleting my comments every other day like I did on reddit. I know the content on fedi comes up randomly because sort bugs now and then so I’m being more careful about what I comment and leaving almost all of it completely intact. It’s very very difficult to do that 😅 I interact while intoxicated and am a ball of anxiety, and those don’t mix well. Purging my interactions was catharsis.
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Post links and the discussion will come if the community has even just a few subscribers.
This dude has done a lot to populate the community he's promoting with content. He's the only contributor so far
Wouldn't fix the problem, the reality is that we're not many enough. We could grow tenfold and still not be many enough.
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Imma growin' as hard as I can 🌱
Im a shower, not a grower. Kindly with the patience pls
Post y'all. Everybody's still sorting by new and new comments. Now's the time to make it happen.
Feel this. I've slowly gathered a more people than I expected (~60) on an 'idlehands' community for fidgets and skill toys, and I'm now hoping they migrate with me over to a new instance since I expect the .ml issue will be a problem (if not this time, going forward)
So, if anyone likes seeing fidgets and skill toys (begleri, chetki, knucklebones, yo-yos, etc) feel free to join over at: [email protected] :)
A community I created for the discussion of hardcore punk.
r/hardcore is the only subreddit I miss, as it was pretty much the only subreddit with a soul. Working on rebuilding a similar community on lemmy. We're growing, I think we're the biggest hardcore community on Lemmy, but these lazy mfs don't post anything lol.
If you wanna discuss hardcore, post your band's music, post info about a show, link to resources for finding shows, link to your band's merch store, feel free to subscribe! I'm a big fan of the DIY mentality in music, so if you've got something, share it mother fucker!
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@cyph3rPunk, what niche community?
In order to ensure further growth I think we need to expand into developing markets.
I know you're joking, but I would so love if Filipinos or some other countries would switch from facebook to mastodon/lemmy. It would make this place so lively.
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Entertain me!
Do that thing Rita from Power Rangers did to her monsters.
Idk usually shouting “make my monster grow” in a public space is frowned upon.
You have to water niche communities with exposure and feed them with content for them to grow.
Fuck if, have a sub 👍
What community? Cyber punk?
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
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Grow!
Please help us grow this community if you're interested in skincare! We have a big passion for it and also think it would help diversify the type of communities that exist here on Lemmy 😊
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