In my experience, once a community reaches certain size, it grows organically. But reaching that cricial mass is hard.
So I thought that a coordinated “consented white hat brigading” might help. What I mean is for a group of users to focus on one or a few communities for a while trying to get them to that point posting and commenting (quality content).
It should be done asking the moderators for permission first. There may be communities that don’t want to grow this way.
Disclaimer (because I got a comment in a similar post saying “Give it time”): I’m not trying to rush the growth, IMHO people should post as much as they want and not take it as a chore. I’m thiking of focusing the (natural) activity of those users interested in helping small communities (that want to grow).
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The way I’m encouraging growth on my subs is to first sub to them using a couple secondary accounts on other instances.
This way posts get visibility across more than jus local.
Then I post once or twice a day, so there’s a fresh post that people can come across in “all”. This is how people do discovery on the fediverse, they see a good posts, and find and sub to communities that way.
There’s only so much I can do alone, and some of my subs I’m not posting to as diligently as others, not to mention other communities I want to help get discovered, not started by me.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I have the same approach, happy to see mine makes sense somehow.