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idlebones@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

May I ask, why do you think that is the better option? I understand people didn’t boost things when they were requesting communities, but are they boosting now?

I’m not certain that cross-posting a bunch of stuff and dumping project newsfeeds into communities is going to kickstart them much. I don’t think that can work with you doing it alone across so many communities. You need someone who is really keen on growing the community to be doing it, and if that someone isn’t around - I’d argue the community may not need to exist (until someone does arrive and wants to do that).

Again, this is your instance and it’s not my business how you run it, so feel free to tell me to mind my own business.

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Ategon@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Growth over time

I mean we are a link aggregator. It aggregates links into the communities for people to view. Its been working so far and ive managed to boost a bunch of communities to have a larger amount of active users/month (the last community on page 1 now has 42 users/month rather than before it was 10 users/month at the end of page 1

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- idlebones@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Okay, well if you are confident it’s working, then great. Presumably then, you don’t see that there are any issues with over-dilution?
  
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  - Ategon@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nope as long as theres spots for people to feel comfortable posting in regardless of activity elsewhere (which are c/programming and c/no_stupid_questions)
    
    Ill try to do a better onboarding system to guide people that way
    
    Ill ramp up my posting speed, been doing some more setup for things in the admin team for the past bit as well as switching which rss reader I use. Expect more activity in the next week
    
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- SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, I just want to echo the growth over time comment. It’s still (relatively) early days of the Fediverse and Lemmy, and we’re still on the shallow part of the exponential growth graph. I mod the MAUI Community, which was created shortly before Xmas, and I made some announcements then (like on Mastodon, Daily Dew Drop, etc.) and some people joined then. But then I’ve also mentioned it again on a few other occasions since when it seemed appropriate (like the other day when I saw a notable dev still posting on Reddit), and each time I do it gains another subscriber or two. We just need to keep advocating each time there’s an opportunity. We’ve built it, and now we just need to wait for them to come. :-) And it’s been worthwhile, because when I have an issue I always post both here and on Mastodon, and sometimes I get a solution from Mastodon, but another time I got my solution from someone here (i.e. no-one form Mastodon responded, but someone here did, and the solution worked!). And of course, like Reddit, solutions posted here are easier to find than those posted on Mastodon. I think it’s great and just needs some time to grow (as people learn how the Fediverse works and what all the available services are, such as Lemmy instead of Reddit).
  
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- Gork@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do sites even index Lemmy in SEO? I haven’t found a case where a Google search yields a Lemmy thread organically, like it does with Reddit.
  
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  - Ategon@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, we just have less content to pull from so it happens less often
    
    As a quick example of a community thats not that active here if you search up Concatenative Programming and scroll down a bit youll see programming.dev
    
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