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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Promoted my [email protected] community on [email protected] for the first time. Gained ~10 subs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

!news_[email protected] has been getting some decent engagement all posts get a couple of votes and some have bewn getting decent commenter engagement.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[email protected] has been getting some people posting things of their own lately and it's been really nice to see!

A couple people have submitted pics they've taken of owls they've encountered, and there's been some art and articles. Good variety of things.

I like it because I don't mind posting all the things as the content is pretty easy to get, but it's all coming from my taste and perspective on what is interesting, so it's good to see what I'm missing or overlooking, plus I like seeing people's real life experiences with nature.

I'd been feeling uninspired, and this has given me a big boost as it feels I've finally inspired some others to contribute. I'm happy to teach and answer questions, but seeing others take an active role in the growth of the community is truly something else. I want it to be a space for everyone to be happy and enjoy each other being there together looking at beautiful nature things.

Also I've been having decent luck incorporating more non-English speaking content. Got nice photos and stories from Kuwait, China, Slovenia, France, Germany and others rolling in now. It increases variety and perspective, and I like learning about the language and culture aspects from other users and from just reading and learning the terms to find the content. A German user also provided some links to German animal rescues for the sidebar links.

Comments feel a bit slower, but with all the other good, I'm not going to sweat that right now. Activity is still there overall.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Glad to hear that! I didn't start it, others beat me over here, but it was becoming inactive, and I didn't want to see that, so I am keeping it active until it can become self-sustaining.

Gave your Latin community a look. Only suggestion I'd make is if you're short on content, just post one thing a day until you pick up some more members so you don't use up all your material. I use an app that I can save drafts in, and I've built up a couple weeks reserve content in case I hit a dry spell. Now I can easily make 4 posts a day, but I worked my way up from 1 as I built up my stream of sources. Keep it active, but don't burn yourself out mentally or on ideas.

Other than that, building a community is really slow here, but it is worth it as there are some really good commenters here once you can land a few. You've got 200 subs in half a week, which sounds like a great start. Much like anything else, res = labori. Stick with it, maintain your happiness posting to it, and people will come to see you and hopefully share back. If you're having fun, that will attract people.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it was like that for me for a while. You just have to try your best not to run out of ideas, really know your stuff and just persist, even when it feels like you aren't getting anywhere. And then every now and then, you will manage to engage a great contributor, who decides to post regularly, taking some of the load off yourself. If you continue to persist anyway, eventually more will come, creating enough of a community to engage in light discussion. I am sorta at that point with [email protected]. I have a couple other great regular posters, one of which posts daily, which helps me to reach an even bigger audience (effectively having double the content). Now I have plenty of content, I just need to keep at it, and keep the place alive and with time it should hopefully grow naturally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Starting a new community is an uphill slog. Some tips and observations:

Make sure to subscribe to the community from several of the large instances so that it is federated there and people viewing the all feed can see it.
If you haven't yet, make sure to announce the community in [email protected] and/or [email protected]
If you can think of some kind of recurring post series, it is a good structure to provide a steady drip of content. For latin, maybe something like a weekly post about the etymology of a modern word with a latin root?
In general, posts with a lead image generate much more interaction than non-image, discussion posts. So, the meme-type posts can serve a role to help people discover the community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Make sure to subscribe to the community from several of the large instances so that it is federated there and people viewing the all feed can see it.

I never even thought about this, but it is an important and easy to overlook step in how federation works! Great tip for noobs trying to start communities and to more experienced users who aren't as attentive to how the fediverse actually works (guilty).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Still posting daily on [email protected] still getting barely any traction on anything and still have barely any engagement.

Still not too bothered either though. It's a very niche subject on a niche platform and I'm happy posting into a void, I know a few people stop by and that is enough for now :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The pikas will return. My mental health just hit the floor, and I've been struggling. Hope things are better for y'all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been able to post as much this past week compared to normal, but things have been going ok:

[email protected] is actually kind of booming right now with the start of a new season of shows. I have seen lots of first-time commenters chiming in on episode threads. It actually hit ~300 users/day at one point over the weekend.
[email protected] has been calm but active. There are a handful of other fairly reliable posters that have been able to keep things going while I have been away.

The not as active ones:

[email protected] - I inherited this community when the previous moderator had to step away for an extended period of time. The nokotan community in general is very meme-heavy, and I just don't really know how to engage with that very well. There is only so much non-meme content about the series. So, I am going to try to binge-read the manga and start posting chapter discussion threads when new chapters are released. I just need to find the time to do that.
[email protected] - This is another kind of special case. The current, most active Gundam community is [email protected]. However, that instance announced that they are shutting down later this month. The current users over there were interested in setting up a new community but there wasn't anybody that wanted to moderate. So, I offered my help in that respect. It just started this past week, so there isn't much there yet, but I am going to try to keep posting any Gundam-related content I find over there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can try to help a bit with Gundam!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Fantastic, thanks! I haven't made announcements yet about the new community, but hoping to do that some time this week when I get a chance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trying to get [email protected] more active, small success so far

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not great, no idea how to grow a continuity clearly. https://lemmy.world/c/cars

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Have you tried promoting it on [email protected] and [email protected] ?

You could also start weekly discussion threads just to get the ball rolling, people are usually more comfortable commenting than posting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[email protected]

Let me have a look

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I was wondering how to link like that, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Routine

[email protected] still good
[email protected] is still competing with [email protected], but I guess that will be the same for a while
[email protected] gets some upvotes

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