If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That’s not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it’s a ghost town and leave.

If you have enough interest to create a community, you probably know something about the subject matter, so PLEASE add some posts (5-10 would be a good start). Maybe some questions to get people talking, even popular reposts from other sites. It sucks shouting into a void, but if you don’t do it, everyone else will also be shouting into a void.

Also please consider whether you need to create a community! When there are 100 million users of the site, there may be 1000 people who are interested in the same exact niche tabletop RPG as you, but there are <500,000 users here for now, so you’ll be lucky to find 10. Consider creating a thread in a broader community (like boardgames) until you have enough people talking in the thread that it gets messy - then it’s time to create a separate community.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

  • Catch42
    18•1 year ago

    I only have so many interesting things to say. I don’t really want to post for the sake of generating content, so making 5-10 posts right off the bat seems like the wrong way to go about it. I think it’d be better to make one post a day or one every other day or so that anyone who comes in can see that it’s recently active.

    • Margot Robbie
      15•1 year ago

      Yeah, you’re right, I’m going to try posting something at a daily cadence to build up content in the communities I made, and hopefully more people will join in.

      The only way Lemmy can maintain its momentum is by generating original content.

    • @WhoRoger
      6•1 year ago

      But then why create a community then?

      You can always at least post YT videos or links to articles so that people can see there’s activity on the comm and it’s not dead.

    • @fatmajimboo
      2•1 year ago

      I just opened a community yesterday! Honestly it’s hard to get people interested, while I love the subject of my community and could talk about it all day everyday I still feel weird being the only poster I appreciate everyone who has joined it! And every community needs lurkers but I feel like I’m having a conversation by myself lol I’m sure patience is half the battle so far I’ve decided that 2/3 post a day of thing I find esencial or specifically useful for my subscribers is a good way to start, but who knows I guess we will all figure it along the way.

    • Truck-kun
      1•1 year ago

      I am trained in nonstop content generation for steemit.com and Hive.io where being a spammer was the key to success. I would post 100 comments a day and 1 post a day because that was the maximum amount of posts per day. Now on Lemmy it seems my spammy instinct came out and I comment and post dozens of times a day on multiple accounts. 🤐