Imagine if everyone who made this kind of post, made a post on their fav niche sub instead.
This dude has done a lot to populate the community he's promoting with content. He's the only contributor so far
literally this. i see a lot of mods of niche communities working their ass off trying to generate content with 0 help, including me. and all people do is complain that they aren’t doing enough, it’s not active enough, while doing nothing to help it grow.
be the change you want to see. contribute to your communities, especially niche ones.
I would like to do this but I’m basically a waste of space, and not really capable of either thought provoking questions or funny/engaging content for the things I want to be part of. I can engage with others, but I’m not unique or creative enough for starting the conversation (same in person actually).
I know this because I tried several times many years ago to run my own Facebook pages for… well I tried various things and got very little engagement on any of it when Facebook pages were peak social media.
I know random facts about random science things that most people don’t understand (I probably don’t either, but I think I do!), but nothing that would actually grow any of the communities I’d like to see grow.
So while it is exactly that easy, it’s not necessarily that easy.
Wouldn't fix the problem, the reality is that we're not many enough. We could grow tenfold and still not be many enough.
You are right. Back to Reddit...we tried.
Feel this. I've slowly gathered a more people than I expected (~60) on an 'idlehands' community for fidgets and skill toys, and I'm now hoping they migrate with me over to a new instance since I expect the .ml issue will be a problem (if not this time, going forward)
So, if anyone likes seeing fidgets and skill toys (begleri, chetki, knucklebones, yo-yos, etc) feel free to join over at: !idlehands@lemmy.blahaj.zone :)
Do that thing Rita from Power Rangers did to her monsters.
You have to water niche communities with exposure and feed them with content for them to grow.
Finally! An ebikes community on Lemmy.
!hardcore@waveform.social
A community I created for the discussion of hardcore punk.
r/hardcore is the only subreddit I miss, as it was pretty much the only subreddit with a soul. Working on rebuilding a similar community on lemmy. We're growing, I think we're the biggest hardcore community on Lemmy, but these lazy mfs don't post anything lol.
If you wanna discuss hardcore, post your band's music, post info about a show, link to resources for finding shows, link to your band's merch store, feel free to subscribe! I'm a big fan of the DIY mentality in music, so if you've got something, share it mother fucker!
