So let’s try this again. My last post sort of got derailed because I am an idiot and used instance instead of community.
Anyway I am here to see what’s working for everyone else. I would like to help grow some of the smaller communities I am apart of and looking for ways to be helpful and interactive without straight up having to make my own video content.
Posts that invite comments tend to get comments. That’s why the “ask” communities get so much comment traffic. An interesting post might get upvotes, but if there’s no call for engagement then people will simply look once and move on.
Upload pictures directly to your posts instead of linking to external content. Folks don’t necessarily have time (or interest) to stop what they’re doing and go watch a 20-minute video on another site.
I’m not sure, tbh. I’m feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.
I’ve been involved in actively trying to build up an existing Community: I posted stuff, people saw it on All, and subscribed. From that point, growth should be exponential - if you get an extra 100 subscribers, at least 1 of them should be able to overcome their crippling insecurity and post something, but in reality, nothing happened. I kept posting, but repeated mining of my own sense of what’s funny just revealed how far adrift my own sense of humour is from a universal sense, and that was that.
You can do what you like to try to grow a Community, but if the people you bring in are the same type of Entitled Toilet Browsers you already have, it won’t mean much.
I’m feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.
We’re definitely coming down from the optimism during Rexit. I think Lemmy can still find its vibe and become its own unique thing rather than being a little Reddit copycat. Though it depends on us users being more proactive about participating rather than lurking.
Hey how did you know that I am sitting at the toilet?
In most social media I am a commenter (idk. As soon as I feel comfortable to post something the comments murder me)
But even so did not use Lemmy to much with jerboa. Not enough content. Buggy. Not nice.
Saw a new post about clients and found “thunder”.
Feels like relay. Yes some functions may be missing. But feels nice enough that I can scroll through my subscriptions and have fun using it.
And in mastodon I have a feeling that the growth is linear and not exponential, so give it time.
Lemmy will probably not replace Reddit soon, but it will be a solid alternative for not super special content.
We don’t have that many active users yet which means it’s probably 100x harder to grow a niche community here compared to Reddit. Just keep it up, perhaps at slower, more comfortable pace, and next time there is a sudden increase of new Lemmy users (e.g. something happened again on Reddit) those new people might found your community.
Reddit is where the idea that it’s OK if 95% of the userbase doesn’t engage comes from.
I don’t want those kind of Reddit migrants. An influx of lurkers who finally got fed up of the advertising or whatever are no use to anyone. I want people who will to take advantage of the smaller size, realizing that’s their post isn’t going to get buried in New.
Right now, there’s lots of new communities, and the longevity of nearly every one can be measured in the length of time it takes for its creator to get disillusioned with posting into the void.
I’d love more tips on this too. I’m trying to grow a small hobby community (!geocaching@lemmy.world). Mainly I think I will try sharing my own experiences and ending posts with a question that invites others to share theirs as well
Did you link to the wrong post?
I want to try and create discussion about videos that may be less main stream. Video (specifically medium- to long-form) is my preferred type of content to consume, however I don’t have the ability to create my own content. !Videos@lemmy.world is great but as @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works mentioned below:
Posts that invite comments tend to get comments.
!Videos@lemmy.world doesn’t directly ask for discussion on the videos posted. I created a community, !whatareyouwatching@lemmy.onlylans.io, to try to bridge this gap. The idea is that you find an interesting video, you watch it, and then you post it with your main take-away or a question you had to try and foster a discussion.
Not sure if it is working, but that’s my own methodology to trying to increase engagement with content that I don’t personally produce.
Also, I am running a small self-hosted instance for friends, so my name may not be as “out there” as the larger instances, but I’m pretty sure that anyone can post to this community.
