I just created !farmingsimulator@piefed.social a few days ago and I have made one post but no one else has posted, how do I grow my community?
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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I'd first recommend filling your community with content. Make it a place worth visiting, and not some place that looks empty, like you're hoping other people will fill it with content.
Second, I'd recommend posting on a regular basis. This will make it worthy of repeat visits, and also create a form of subtle advertising. Your posts will show up in peoples' ALL feeds, and if it's quality content, then you'll gradually attract subscribers that way.
I tend to think that the more niche a topic is, the more of the work the founder will have to do themselves. At this point I've surely posted over 500x at my own community, and there's a little bit of guest posting, but it's generally slow-going. I think the key in all that is if you have a genuine passion for your subject, then it will seem less like work.
Oh, and make sure you 'advertise' at the various new community places across the Fediverse.
My community !windowmanagers@lemmy.zip just reached 300 subscribers. Pretty happy about it although not sure if it will grow any larger.
My community's most popular post in 4 months breaks our rules 1 and 2 about giving creator credit. I'm letting it stand because people like it, but now I've got to track down a source of a video someone took on a phone at a zoo and resolve the broken rules myself.
Looks like someone finds the source in the comments.
One good tool for video (and image) searches is Yandex. It works much better than Google (although Google tends to have better reverse image search, especially for older content).
Found it! I'm convinced it came from this Instagram post from March 2021.
Oh yeah, Yandex is another tool in my kit. I usually open a thumbnail in ImgOps and try TinEye, Google, Yandex, and SauceNAO.
Pretty good, after almost 2 years, !hardware@lemmy.world has regular posters other than me.
i just found your community. i have always been interested in hardware tech, but regular tech community is just software news. thank you
Enjoy! :)
Kinda stopped messing with !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca after getting some brutally vitriolic PMs and posts.
Turns out people on Lemmy don't want to discuss, they just want to tell me that I am stupid and hateful for daring to have a discussion about anything they like while using anything approaching a questioning tone.
Hello,
Sorry to hear. There are some quite toxic users on the platform. Have you tried https://piefed.ca/? Piefed has better moderation tools