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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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[–] dystop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I moderate (and was the creator of) !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world . In 5 days it now has >4k subscribers. Some tips which helped me are:

like other people mentioned, work it into a conversation (see what I did above?). It's especially important to do this on the larger instances where your community ISN'T located, because it doesn't show up organically for them until the first person subscribes. Find a thread to talk about it on lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works at minimum. Maybe kbin.social too.
cross-posting in larger communities might help, since it helps others see that the community exists
Post a variety of content - memes/stories that others can laugh at, more in-depth discussion threads, etc.
engage with whoever posts. If someone replies, reply back to them. This helps to drive up engagement and makes the poster feel heard, which encourages more posts.

Without looking at your community that's the general advice I have.

Also - be prepared to shout into the void for some time. It takes time to gather momentum. You'll have to be that first person at a party pretending to dance by yourself while having a good time.

Good luck, and thanks for putting in this effort!