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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The expectation that a social media that optimistically has 0.1% the user base of reddit, can support the same level of community fragmentation, is not realistic. I've been here long enough to see numerous failed attempts at starting a community for My Favorite Niche, rather than just posting about it in More General Community. You usually get a single "welcome" post by the creator, and then nothing more. If you're lucky, the creator will make a small handful of their own posts before giving up.
Post about your favorite TV show in a tv/movies community, don't make a new one just for your show. You'll get way more engagement
I agree, but I also don't want to spam those communities lol.
Like [email protected] or [email protected] would be too much spam for one of the gaming communities, or patient gamers.
And it'd be even more spammy for the communities that are in-between in specificity (like [email protected] or [email protected])
I just do rare cross-posts for the most notable posts
Oh yeah, if you can sustain those communities by yourself, that's great! This advice is more for people who don't know where to post about a specific topic
[email protected] has entered the chat 😀
I'm probably missing context here, is the name a brand or an established subreddit?
I think it's a comm where some guy posts whatever they're interested in at the moment. Kind of like c/Gondaily
nod the point was (in fun) to exemplify not doing what the GP comment to this thread was talking about; here we have a positive example of a user creating a single space to post any/all of their "niche" (eye of the beholder) content, rather than creating tiny communities for each interest. It was a light-hearted comment "see, like this". :) (disclaimer: I'm subscribed)
Makes sense, thanks!
My cousin used to do [email protected]
He ended up doing a total social media break, and stopped posting after that, but he's been thinking of starting back.
And I think this is how people should start thinking of Lemmy communities maybe, or at least as an option for Lemmy communities; to be less like subreddit ls and more like personal pages frankly more akin to Myspace. Part of the appeal of Lemmy, to me at least, is the decentralization and reclamation of some level of ownership. So maybe lemmy is less a place where you go to join c/deathmetal and c/crotchet and c/vintagesmurfpornography, but instead it's a place where you start c/yourusername and declare it your personal shrine to needlepoint, cannibal corpse, and blue cartoon-fuckery.
But I also smoke weed, so I might just be having a moment
Agreed