• wjs018@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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 !newcommunities@lemmy.world and/or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
    • 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.
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      2 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).