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How are you doing with your communities? (self.fedigrow)

submitted 1 month ago by Blaze to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Realized it's been a while

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We have mechanisms for transferring sub ownership, so once the community is made, any individual can bring it back to life with some effort. It's really just a population thing though, we're not quite big enough to support really niche interests yet.

It's also a small issue of people thinking that other people will grow their communities for them, in a sort of "if you build it, they will come" mentality. This is false 99% of the time, and only works if you're arriving at just the right time to spin up a community that there is a huge amount of demand for. Almost all communities are built off of months of regular, dedicated posting by a single individual though, which is usually the creator.

Anyways though, this'll resolve in time if the service continues to grow over the years.

[–] Blaze 4 points 1 month ago

This is false 99% of the time, and only works if you’re arriving at just the right time to spin up a community that there is a huge amount of demand for. Almost all communities are built off of months of regular, dedicated posting by a single individual though, which is usually the creator.

Very true