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How does a first time community maker find subscribers?
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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The main bottleneck for growth for a new community, is the fact that until someone manually subscribes to it from another instance, it's only discoverable on its home instance.
A trick to get over this hurdle is to use a couple alts to subscribe from some other instances, which will then mean more people will see posts from it in all.
Right the federation issues, so making few throwaways sounds like a cool idea.
You should only do this on a couple of the big instances. You shouldn't force a community to federate to everywhere. If someone wants to see it, they'll sub.
And it's not really an issue, it's intended behaviour that makes it so that each instance only federates the minimum needed. It saves on instance traffic and storage.
Ah I know atleast 7 instances it's federated with. Ig i'll just let it take it's natural course
Are you aware of any way to check what instances I'm already federated with. There's 30+ subscribers to the community so idk how many of the major instances are subbed on
Simply try to open the community from that instance. Add the /c/community@instan.ce to the other instances url and see if it opens. If it does, it's already there, if it doesn't, it's not.
Thanks thats very useful!