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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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Megathreads:

How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

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Is it possible to consolidate with a ML community? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I mod and post at [email protected].

There is also [email protected], it has much more subs (~5K), but a lot less engagement. The ML community's mod also seems to have deleted their account?

I am not acquainted with the process for community consolidation and I am not sure if ML takes part in such initiatives. Do I need to reach out to the ML admins? What would be the next step if I wanted to propose [email protected] to be merged into [email protected] ?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't need hundreds of millions of users, though. You only need a few dozen users active in each community to make them worth while. A couple of hundred makes them downright vibrant.

Reddit-like communities with hundreds of thousands of users are a waste, and become nearly impossible to moderate effectively.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You only need a few dozen users active in each community to make them worth while.

A few dozen active posters is a lot by Lemmy standards. Popular topics like [email protected] have less than 10.