this post was submitted on 09 Feb 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 federate your community to a lot of instances
- [email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
- [email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Community discovery 100% needs to be improved somehow. No matter how many popular posts you make you will heavily struggle getting the ball rolling, if you ever do.
This practically guarantees the death of niches, which is [obviously] not good for the fediverse as a whole.
Don't people use the Subscribed feed for their niche communities? So once they are subbed, it's all good?
If the issue is people not knowing about communities, then those posts on [email protected] should help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule influences this heavily imo
I think it's both. On latin for example i have 120 users (35 are lemmy federate bots) but i'm the only one posting there, despite some posts getting a lot of upvotes or comments.
This can heavily discourage mods and force them to quit which kills the community.