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You don't. You merely keep the community from dying by posting your own content periodically and you wait. You can't control them though, and trying will piss them off.
In general, provide content people want, let people know on appropriate forums, and wait. My subreddit took almost 10 years to get 15k subscribers and the first few it was maybe 5 people myself included that were contributing.
Shit, I've made subs, forgot about the account I made them on, only to come back and find it'd gotten huge. Sometimes I'd stumble across them on other accounts and be like, "Holy shit, I forgot i made this!"
Yep I created a community for faceting gemstones, and am still the only one posting. Got some interactions, but no content besides mine. I’ll keep at it though, the eternal optimist that I am. 😉😂
You gotta spread the word.
But, being real, it's going to be slow. The nature of the beast with lemmy/kbin is that there's a very long discovery process. So, not only do your have to spread awareness of your c/, you have to have those users be active on a lot of other ones, and feel motivated to share links on yours.
There's the new communities c/ on lemmy.world (I think? Could be lemmy.ml, my brain is fried rn) though. It's helped me discovery wise. And you can't be afraid to do a little self hype. Like, when you find something to post on your magazine, tell/ask the person you're borrowing from that you did so/want to. Provide a link to that bestof post as well.
Yeah, it's shameless self promotion, but you won't have to do it long, assuming the lemmy/kbin world stays steady.
Edit: make sure your link is formatted right for jerboa/app use as well.
How do I subscribe to your magazine from lemmy?
I could by searching for [email protected]. You should include that info in your posts
I'm on Jerboa, and I have not figured out how to adjust your link into something that Jerboa can find in search.
If it is just my impatience with the distributed nature of the fediverse, then that is on me...
E+: I hit up the "communities" search on my home instance web interface and there it was.
I find just searching BestOf and scrolling through the results is the easiest way on Jerboa. Doesn't always work for new communities though. Hopefully something they'll fix in future updates.
I am currently using jerboa for lemmy, on an android tablet. When I tap on the link in your comment, I get prompted to declare which app should be used to open it.
That makes me immediately back out.
That's a problem with jerboa though, there isn't a good way to link anything for jerboa. I could be wrong but I've tried different ways and all of them don't work (they either crash, open in a new tab you aren't logged into, or don't work at all).
The nature of your sub also requires that viral Lemmy posts propagate in order to even be considered to belong, which might make it even more difficult to gain traction. I haven't been around that long here but I'm guessing you only have one post...the 3 day poop post lol.
I'll subscribe though!
Lot of communities are like that, I don't understand
With the population of the Kblemmiverse right now, there are a limited number of active communities... and its easy to see a fair lot of them without really trying.
What is your goal with bestof? What do you envision it becoming?
@Melpomene The fediverse will become quite vast. I find it's already difficult to see portions from every community. I'd like for it to be a central location where people can share the most insightful posts/comments.
Keep posting content and post your com on sharing communities
If you figure it out, let me know. I've created a couple communities that I liked from Reddit, but nothing. I believe people are just sticking to the top 5 instances and that's it. Kind of defeates the purpose of the fediverse. If lemmy.world went down, that would take half of the lemmy users with it.
Damn communists