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Can you please give me some tips on how to grow and popularize a Lemmy community? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by sisyphean@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m a moderator of a smaller community. I’m posting quality content multiple times a day, and I posted about it in New Communities. The number of subscribers is low but it’s growing steadily.

Could you please give me some advice on growing this community? I don’t want to spam/flood or come off as rude or weird, but I really believe in it and think it would be useful to many people.

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

            
              Work it into the conversation when you're talking to people elsewhere (I don't mod any communities but am interested in seeing them grow and this has been the #1 successful tactic)
Don't be weird about mentioning it in general. For example, why does this post not say what your community is or have a link for people to follow?
Don't just post links that people can click on, think "huh" and then move on. Post questions or other interactive things to draw out lurkers.
Team up with mods of related communities to maintain a list of "neighbours" that you all pin to make it easy for your users to find more stuff they're interested in.
Make sure to respond to anyone who does happen to wander in and leave a post or comment, don't leave them hanging
Advertise it on your other social media since presumably you're hanging around people with the same interests

[–] sisyphean@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thank you, these are excellent tips! Btw here is the community: https://programming.dev/c/auai (!auai@programming.dev) - I didn't want to mention it because I didn't want my post to sound like cheap self-promotion, but I guess I'm a bit too shy in this regard.

The icon and the cover image are terrible, I'm planning to replace them later.

[–] babelspace@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like what you’ve been posting so far. I’ve been working more with image generating AI -but I would have been interested in following information regarding more general/text focused AI on Reddit, except all the communities I checked were pretty bad 😂.

Some places I think you can promote it -
artificial@kbin.social
Any big technology community, there’s multiple on different instances
If we can find an article related to image AI, I can post it to the stable diffusion groups. I’ve been posting at stablediffusion@kbin.social.

[–] sisyphean@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I'm glad you like my posts! I've definitely noticed most AI groups/subreddits being bad... The hype is at fever pitch nowadays so I guess that's why they are full of low-quality filler content.

I subbed to both of those magazines, but for some reason Lemmy federation with kbin is super slow, so it will take a while for me to be able to post in them.

I actually had a super interesting article about the "hidden vocabulary" of image generation models in my notes that I wanted to post, so I went on and posted it now. It isn't about Stable Diffusion but it might still be interesting to people in that group. Thanks again!

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your advice! I‘m trying to built a bass-related community over at !bassment@feddit.de. So if you’re reading this and moderate a music related Community, hit me up so we can cross link our Communities and work together!

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck! If you've got seen it yet, lemmyverse.net is a newer better interface for searching communities so you might be able to use that to find some likely candidates to reach out to.

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Didn‘t know about lemmyverse yet, appreciate the tip! Already found some communities I‘ll get in contact with, thanks