In my experience, once a community reaches certain size, it grows organically. But reaching that cricial mass is hard.

So I thought that a coordinated “consented white hat brigading” might help. What I mean is for a group of users to focus on one or a few communities for a while trying to get them to that point posting and commenting (quality content).

It should be done asking the moderators for permission first. There may be communities that don’t want to grow this way.

Disclaimer (because I got a comment in a similar post saying “Give it time”): I’m not trying to rush the growth, IMHO people should post as much as they want and not take it as a chore. I’m thiking of focusing the (natural) activity of those users interested in helping small communities (that want to grow).

  • MentalEdgeEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    The way I’m encouraging growth on my subs is to first sub to them using a couple secondary accounts on other instances.

    This way posts get visibility across more than just local.

    Then I post once or twice a day, so there’s a fresh post that people can come across in “all”. This is how people do discovery on the fediverse, they see good posts, and find and sub to communities that way.

    There’s only so much I can do alone, and some of my subs I’m not posting to as diligently as others, not to mention other communities I want to help get discovered, not started by me.

    So yeah, more people helping keep up that daily post would help, but going past that, like what c/digitalart was doing at the start, gets real obnoxious with how it saturates “all”.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      but going past that (…) gets real obnoxious with how it saturates “all”.

      I agree. My current strategy is to have list of 10-to-20-ish small communities I think can succeed and try to post to them every day or two.

      I took a look and one of your communities is (since a couple of days ago) on that list: [email protected]

      See you there!