I think it just takes time. I’m also posting to a community that currently has 7 subscribers (and I think that includes me, haha) but I enjoy posting there since I care about the topic. Growth will come naturally, but I mostly care about exchanging ideas and just general conversation with other fans.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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Thank you for your advice! I‘m trying to built a bass-related community over at !bassment@feddit.de. So if you’re reading this and moderate a music related Community, hit me up so we can cross link our Communities and work together!
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Didn‘t know about lemmyverse yet, appreciate the tip! Already found some communities I‘ll get in contact with, thanks
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.