If you can think of some kind of recurring post series, it is a good structure to provide a steady drip of content. For latin, maybe something like a weekly post about the etymology of a modern word with a latin root?
In general, posts with a lead image generate much more interaction than non-image, discussion posts. So, the meme-type posts can serve a role to help people discover the community.
Make sure to subscribe to the community from several of the large instances so that it is federated there and people viewing the all feed can see it.
I never even thought about this, but it is an important and easy to overlook step in how federation works! Great tip for noobs trying to start communities and to more experienced users who aren’t as attentive to how the fediverse actually works (guilty).
I thought of #1, but it sounds weird to use my alts to subscribe to my own community 😅 I’ll try to check if any large instances don’t have any subscribers; if so, i’ll make an alt an just subscribe.
I’ve promoted it on both, gotten me from ~35 -> 65, i’d say that’s great!
And yeah, i like posting etymology, and i’ve done it; but it feels a little dirty posting other people’s work, even if i credit them. I’ll try to credit them harder, though; putting the name of the creator directly in the title, and making a post mentioning them. I think that’s fair enough
And for the last point, i learned that the hard way. hours i’ve watched as my futile attempt at a discussion sit at 0 comments, yet my memes get 20-50 upvotes 😂
Starting a new community is an uphill slog. Some tips and observations:
I never even thought about this, but it is an important and easy to overlook step in how federation works! Great tip for noobs trying to start communities and to more experienced users who aren’t as attentive to how the fediverse actually works (guilty).
I thought of #1, but it sounds weird to use my alts to subscribe to my own community 😅 I’ll try to check if any large instances don’t have any subscribers; if so, i’ll make an alt an just subscribe.
I’ve promoted it on both, gotten me from ~35 -> 65, i’d say that’s great!
And yeah, i like posting etymology, and i’ve done it; but it feels a little dirty posting other people’s work, even if i credit them. I’ll try to credit them harder, though; putting the name of the creator directly in the title, and making a post mentioning them. I think that’s fair enough
And for the last point, i learned that the hard way. hours i’ve watched as my futile attempt at a discussion sit at 0 comments, yet my memes get 20-50 upvotes 😂
Posting in !newcommunities@lemmy.world is almost mandatory. I saw a 100x activity on my comms once I posted there
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