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

submitted 2 years 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 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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