If you search for a certain community and find that yeah it exists but nobody has posted there in 6 months…
I’ve come across this multiple times, and have had (or seen) some success with the following:
- Start posting to the dormant community. There are usually still some people subscribed, so you’ll get a few upvotes.
- Reach out to the moderators. If they don’t respond, reach out to the instance administrators to request the community.
- After a few weeks of posting regularly, promote the community in !newcommunities@lemmy.world, and any related communities with more subscribers.
I think the “if you build it they will come” adage applies quite well here.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
It didn’t happen in one big exodus, no. But maybe in the future someone will find those old posts and decide to make a new post instead of just concluding there’s nothing and not doing anything.
Delphia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I do wonder if its a help or a hinderance though.
If someone wanted to start a community they might actually do something to generate interest, nobody wants to put the effort in to build up a community that the mod can just ban them from or they look and go “Its not that theres nothing, theres just no interest.”