If you want your community to grow, there’s things you can do to help. Some of them are better than others. What are things that are good for the Fediverse, and what are some things that are better left on other platforms? Here’s a few things and my opinions

  • Clickbaity titles (“Liberals DESTROYED by LOGIC”) - No thank you.

  • Consistent posting - Yes. If you start a community, you’ll probably be the only one posting on there for a while. It’s easier to bootstrap a community if it’s something that comes with content ready-to-go somehow to make your job easier.

  • GIFs - I’ve been using this over in !observances@midwest.social. That’s about as growth-hacky as I’d like to get, but I’m pretty sure people are more likely to engage with animated GIFs than static images for communities like that.

  • Sources - I think this is something that can differentiate the Fediverse from other platforms. On my posts in !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world, I’ve been spending time to source everything before posting it. This makes sure I don’t accidentally post edited images that I’ve seen over in /r/outofcontextcomics, and makes the Fediverse show up in searches. That actually probably hurts growth a little bit, but IMO is worth it

  • Transcribing - Another differentiator for the Fediverse. Everything’s been done by hand and it’s been great. I’ve been transcribing my posts in !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world and I’ve been very happy to see that search engines are already picking those up.

  • Elevator7009@ani.socialEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Hey, thanks for the advice! I’ll try to implement it when I can—some posts lend themselves better to images than others.

    I admit I’m one of the wanderers. I pop in via Local from time to time because sometimes there is cool stuff, but I’m not subbed because otherwise stuff I’m not interested in would overwhelm my feed. A quick skim via checking in from time to time or Local works better for me.

    I see you as a mod a lot around Lemmy. Thanks for your work!