Fedigrow

I was so happy with the community at [email protected] this week!

We got posts from 5 other people this week, which I think is a record, and they were really good, and some were non-US as well.

I've passed 5000 comments, the majority of which have been within the community, and I'm over 900 posts. I've been able to maintain 3 posts a day for a while now.

Been seeing a number of new commenters as well and got another DM thank you from someone for posting happy stuff for them every day.

I've been depressed and now sick recently, so the community has been a very positive element in my life, so I'm glad everyone is still enjoying what I do.

Reading other communities, I feel people have been getting a little touchier and crude in some of their language, so I feel it is important to keep positive spaces here.

[email protected] is also an important community on the host instance and has a decent base by now.

I'm just happy its on a relevant instance since it would've been much easier to grow it on lemmy.world but I didn't want another Lemmy.world community

Pretty happy with [email protected] it is on its way to 300 people and has several active subscribers. If a discussion-type thread is started (rather than a recommendation thread) it does get discussion going.

Very happy with [email protected] and the matches thread now, thank you @[email protected]

[email protected] has been growing steadily whether I post or not. Its now a decent size and I haven't checked but I think more relevant on Lemmy than don't dead open inside which would be the closest comparison.

Also a community that came through organically on Lemmy and not an import from the other site!

Nice growth for [email protected] , we'll probably surpass [email protected] soon

Edit: actually, we already did

[email protected] just hit 1000 tummy enjoyers! Wooo!

Also [email protected] is a huge success. Regular commenters. Hit a hundred subs in just a few days. Now increasing more slowly but steadily.

I'm not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.

Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I'll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don't know.

I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of 'BD' and the little tidbits I write up, there's not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN's, and who also want to spend time posting.

This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they've been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.

Aside from personally posting more regularly there, any advice or ideas for getting [email protected] going? Had a few people early on posting and even some people beside myself replying to them, but it rapidly trailed off from there and felt a little too much like I was only using it for myself.

Started to make other types of post to help show it's as much for sharing as asking, but while the posts had some passive positive attention, it didn't net much more activity.