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Can you please give me some tips on how to grow and popularize a Lemmy community? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by sisyphean@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m a moderator of a smaller community. I’m posting quality content multiple times a day, and I posted about it in New Communities. The number of subscribers is low but it’s growing steadily.

Could you please give me some advice on growing this community? I don’t want to spam/flood or come off as rude or weird, but I really believe in it and think it would be useful to many people.

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[–] agarorn@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Constant work. Such online communities have an exponential growth pattern. So you probably have a certain amount of time after which you double.

This is obviously very apparent when you have 10k subs, and on the next day it is 10,1k. But when you are at 10 subs it can take days for the next to arrive.

Just go on posting and the thing will start to take off. If you stop, or other active members stop the community might die.