I am looking for someone to help the Science Fiction community flourish. To potentially help refine the community description and our getting started post. Even if you don’t want to moderate I would accept any ideas people have.
It will probably be a thankless job with no benefit at all other than seeing this community grow. As of now there is very little moderation actually needed.
Let me know if you are interested either in this post or in a direct message.
Thanks for setting up the community!
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to be of any help with moderation. However, there are some ideas I would like to share, up to you in the community to decide whether or not they are any good. In my opinion, a community like this can flourish if there is a good mix of serious and lighthearted stuff going on. A few ideas on how to get this: 
Meme monday: memes of all kinds relating to science fiction welcome, except Star Wars. Not hating on star wars memes, but there are maybe dozens of communities dedicated to those.
Guess it Wednesday:  stills from a movie or TV show, the rest of us try to guess which one. Of course bonus for season and episode guess as well. May also feature short excerpts from books to be guest.
Caption competition friday/wrong amswers only: one of the moderators posts and image from a work of Science Fiction, the rest of us try to make a funny caption. Alternatively, the moderator asks a question about the image, and we are only allowed to give wrong answers.
It might be good to also discuss the duration of [spoilers] tag on a post after release of certain material
I’m only partly serious about this one, but maybe hating on cowboy bebop should lead to an immediate ban.
Thanks for the feedback. There are some interesting ideas here that I’ll have to think about.
Who hates on the space cowboy??
Hey, I could help you out. I’m a mod on MarvelStudios and Movies currently and I do the weekly tv and movie discussion threads. I could do the same here for current airing series as well as integrate some of the ideas below. I’m also currently revamping our sidebars to be more community specific as well.
A successful social media community is largely dependent on discussion and the proliferation of memes, but Science Fiction is a pretty broad subject matter. You could try to increase engagement by narrowing it down a bit. For example, you could pin a weekly or daily discussion about the latest Sci Fi news and media or create a ‘book of the month’ club to help focus discussion.
Something to put a spotlight on books would be cool. Back on reddit, printSF existed solely for that because the main science fiction hub was dominated by television and film. It would be nice if there was a place for both in one community here rather than splitting them. In the vein of pinned discussions maybe a “What are you reading? What are you looking for? What do you recommend?” type thread could get some book discussions going.
I like these ideas. I might make monthly pinned posts about what people are reading.
As for everything existing in one community I am mostly in favor of that up until the point that the amount of traffic actually gets excessive. We aren’t anywhere near the levels I’d find overwhelming and needing to be split up. Only then do I think it makes sense to split communities. However, other people tend to disagree evident by the amount of communities that got created as soon as Lemmy became more popular. People are trying to jumpstart 10 communities that are all niche subsets of broader communities and I just don’t think that is going to work well.
