I get irritated when I check out a community and there is no content on it.

First off, I get it if it's a fresh community and you don't have anything yet. But if you're community is over an hour old and has nothing on it... Why would I join it?

If you want your community to grow, post content as soon as possible, after it's been created. Otherwise, you're missing out on potential subscriptions and posters.

ALSO

If you find a community you like and subscribe to, post something! That's the best way for it to grow and for you to see new content from it. Nobody wants to be the only poster in a community.

Alice , (edited )
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Do you know how much more annoying it is when you're the only one who actually posts ?

TehBamski OP ,
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Actually, I do. That's how all three of the communities I mod for, started out. One is doing well now, getting new content a few times a week, another only gets new content pretty much when I post and the last one is pretty dead.

Alice ,
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What about broadcasting lemmy communities ? A community to broadcast them so people can get reminded I guess ?

Blaze ,
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I'm going to start a weekly thread on !fediverse to promote some communities

Alice ,
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Posted on it ty !

DarkCloud ,

You can apply to take over ownership of dormant communities... You have to go ask, and I've seen it done... I've just forgotten where you ask.

cyborganism ,

Then post something!!!

TehBamski OP ,
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Check my profile.

Ledivin ,

if you're community is over an hour old and has nothing on it

lmao

Lemmy has like 1000 people on it, you need to either chill or work on being some sort of ambassador if your want content.

TootSweet ,

More like 45,000 according to the monthly active users metric on FediDB. Though your point still stands. It's still quite niche.

Blaze ,
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being some sort of ambassador if your want content.

With 1.23K Posts, OP kind of is

maegul ,
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Yea, holy shit. That’s about 4 posts a day for a straight year.

Krafting ,
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Be the change you wanna see! But yes I feel you man. I created a small app to post content from reddit to a community (manually) to populate some of my community a bit while waiting for other users on Lemmy.

Blaze ,
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Hello,

Definitely a shared feeling. Feel free to join us on !fedigrow to discuss how to grow communities.

Also, in the same vein, if you are a mod of 10+ communities but never post to them, why did you even create them in the first place?

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