Glad to hear that! I didn’t start it, others beat me over here, but it was becoming inactive, and I didn’t want to see that, so I am keeping it active until it can become self-sustaining.
Gave your Latin community a look. Only suggestion I’d make is if you’re short on content, just post one thing a day until you pick up some more members so you don’t use up all your material. I use an app that I can save drafts in, and I’ve built up a couple weeks reserve content in case I hit a dry spell. Now I can easily make 4 posts a day, but I worked my way up from 1 as I built up my stream of sources. Keep it active, but don’t burn yourself out mentally or on ideas.
Other than that, building a community is really slow here, but it is worth it as there are some really good commenters here once you can land a few. You’ve got 200 subs in half a week, which sounds like a great start. Much like anything else, res = labori. Stick with it, maintain your happiness posting to it, and people will come to see you and hopefully share back. If you’re having fun, that will attract people.
Thank you! my original goal was 3 posts a day, but that’s more laborious than i thought (lmao) i think i’ll diversify a little, maybe at least 1, at most 2 a day. An article and an etymology/meme post, depending on what i have.
As for the subscribers, i estimate it’ll be ~130 by the end of this week, or the middle of the next (depends if i’m lazy or not). But the community had a very strong start; i remember creating it, going to the bathroom, then going back to my monitor 5 minutes later, seeing i had 35 subscribers already lol, i actually thought they were bots at first, but it seems not.
Building a community is much harder than i thought 😅 My original plan was to bootstrap a latin community, then once it becomes self sustaining, i’d only be a mod/commenter and not a poster, and focus on creating more communities, to expand the fediverse. I’ll still try to do it, but it’ll take me months. They will pass anyway, might as well have a cool latin community after they pass.
I never intended to be a poster, I’m normally moderately social at best, but the community was more important to me than maintaining my comfort zone was. When I was posting 1 or 2, I’d more actively go out into other communities to comment to try to get them active as well, but now I kinda get stuck enjoying the goings on at Superb Owl and I can sometimes forget about the other people trying to build their stuff. I don’t know how people like Blaze with all these communities manage it all! The mega posters I assume just have a lot of time and like attention, but the actual work part of building the Fed is something else I feel.
Lol it’s still work. As much of my stuff is largely reposts with some repacking and expansion, I know.
You maintain a ton of dialog with people too. You’ve definitely got something going on that isn’t part of the majority of people here, and we’re all grateful for that!
I don’t know how people like Blaze with all these communities manage it all!
That’s just because Blaze is omnipotent, and is somehow able to divide his attention into 50 separate communities. Unfortunately, my attention can only be focused on one thing at a time; sometimes i neglect Latin (i haven’t posted anything at all yet, it’s 5pm but I’m searching for content right now) I’d say I’m a pretty slow person mentally. Not in a bad way exactly, but i am very slow in everything i do, and that’s pretty bad for the community 😄. And same, I’m a hermit/lurker most of the time, but maintaining a community really makes you feel apart of the fediverse, and makes me more active in general.
I have no idea how some people do it, i guess when the fediverse was fresh, young and unpopulated, everyone had an equal playing field; a popular community like !world@lemmy.world was very small back then, and was probably equal to a niche community. Unfortunately we are not early adopters :)
I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
Bluesky is meh, but it’s a step towards people coming here. I tried it once, it felt almost as lifeless as twitter. It just feels really boring, and impossible to get to the top page; because since alot of users are from twitter, they’re just point farmers (or at least, that’s how it feels to me)
Lemmy can feel like that too (especially posting US politics on an unrelated comm, practically infinite upvote glitch) but not as much as “mainstream” social media. I like lemmy, i just wish people had more niches, but i don’t want it to go mainstream.
I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
Yeah, i subscribe to news and political communities on here, but i just can’t stand US politics specifically. I’m not american, and i’m constantly seeing posts on global communities about Elon, Trump or some other bs. I don’t block them by keywords due to FOMO (even though i never really miss out on anything)
And yeah, same. I never liked twitter (especially since it’s a cesspit of the worst of humanity) and Bluesky is basically what reddit is to 4chan: still bad, but not downright agonizing. I still keep a mastodon account around though, for not much reason though.
I do hope the lemmy userbase diversifies so we get less content on one country.
Always nice to see superbowl on my homepage, thank you for creating it! :D
Glad to hear that! I didn’t start it, others beat me over here, but it was becoming inactive, and I didn’t want to see that, so I am keeping it active until it can become self-sustaining.
Gave your Latin community a look. Only suggestion I’d make is if you’re short on content, just post one thing a day until you pick up some more members so you don’t use up all your material. I use an app that I can save drafts in, and I’ve built up a couple weeks reserve content in case I hit a dry spell. Now I can easily make 4 posts a day, but I worked my way up from 1 as I built up my stream of sources. Keep it active, but don’t burn yourself out mentally or on ideas.
Other than that, building a community is really slow here, but it is worth it as there are some really good commenters here once you can land a few. You’ve got 200 subs in half a week, which sounds like a great start. Much like anything else, res = labori. Stick with it, maintain your happiness posting to it, and people will come to see you and hopefully share back. If you’re having fun, that will attract people.
Thank you! my original goal was 3 posts a day, but that’s more laborious than i thought (lmao) i think i’ll diversify a little, maybe at least 1, at most 2 a day. An article and an etymology/meme post, depending on what i have.
As for the subscribers, i estimate it’ll be ~130 by the end of this week, or the middle of the next (depends if i’m lazy or not). But the community had a very strong start; i remember creating it, going to the bathroom, then going back to my monitor 5 minutes later, seeing i had 35 subscribers already lol, i actually thought they were bots at first, but it seems not.
Building a community is much harder than i thought 😅 My original plan was to bootstrap a latin community, then once it becomes self sustaining, i’d only be a mod/commenter and not a poster, and focus on creating more communities, to expand the fediverse. I’ll still try to do it, but it’ll take me months. They will pass anyway, might as well have a cool latin community after they pass.
Thank you for the tips!
I never intended to be a poster, I’m normally moderately social at best, but the community was more important to me than maintaining my comfort zone was. When I was posting 1 or 2, I’d more actively go out into other communities to comment to try to get them active as well, but now I kinda get stuck enjoying the goings on at Superb Owl and I can sometimes forget about the other people trying to build their stuff. I don’t know how people like Blaze with all these communities manage it all! The mega posters I assume just have a lot of time and like attention, but the actual work part of building the Fed is something else I feel.
I usually just repost good content from Reddit. That’s the trick, there’s no magic behind it 😅
Lol it’s still work. As much of my stuff is largely reposts with some repacking and expansion, I know.
You maintain a ton of dialog with people too. You’ve definitely got something going on that isn’t part of the majority of people here, and we’re all grateful for that!
That’s just because Blaze is omnipotent, and is somehow able to divide his attention into 50 separate communities. Unfortunately, my attention can only be focused on one thing at a time; sometimes i neglect Latin (i haven’t posted anything at all yet, it’s 5pm but I’m searching for content right now) I’d say I’m a pretty slow person mentally. Not in a bad way exactly, but i am very slow in everything i do, and that’s pretty bad for the community 😄. And same, I’m a hermit/lurker most of the time, but maintaining a community really makes you feel apart of the fediverse, and makes me more active in general.
I have no idea how some people do it, i guess when the fediverse was fresh, young and unpopulated, everyone had an equal playing field; a popular community like !world@lemmy.world was very small back then, and was probably equal to a niche community. Unfortunately we are not early adopters :)
I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
Bluesky is meh, but it’s a step towards people coming here. I tried it once, it felt almost as lifeless as twitter. It just feels really boring, and impossible to get to the top page; because since alot of users are from twitter, they’re just point farmers (or at least, that’s how it feels to me)
Lemmy can feel like that too (especially posting US politics on an unrelated comm, practically infinite upvote glitch) but not as much as “mainstream” social media. I like lemmy, i just wish people had more niches, but i don’t want it to go mainstream.
I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
Yeah, i subscribe to news and political communities on here, but i just can’t stand US politics specifically. I’m not american, and i’m constantly seeing posts on global communities about Elon, Trump or some other bs. I don’t block them by keywords due to FOMO (even though i never really miss out on anything)
And yeah, same. I never liked twitter (especially since it’s a cesspit of the worst of humanity) and Bluesky is basically what reddit is to 4chan: still bad, but not downright agonizing. I still keep a mastodon account around though, for not much reason though.
I do hope the lemmy userbase diversifies so we get less content on one country.