I’m a moderator of a smaller community. I’m posting quality content multiple times a day, and I posted about it in New Communities. The number of subscribers is low but it’s growing steadily.

Could you please give me some advice on growing this community? I don’t want to spam/flood or come off as rude or weird, but I really believe in it and think it would be useful to many people.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
    27·
    1 year ago
    • Work it into the conversation when you’re talking to people elsewhere (I don’t mod any communities but am interested in seeing them grow and this has been the #1 successful tactic)
    • Don’t be weird about mentioning it in general. For example, why does this post not say what your community is or have a link for people to follow?
    • Don’t just post links that people can click on, think “huh” and then move on. Post questions or other interactive things to draw out lurkers.
    • Team up with mods of related communities to maintain a list of “neighbours” that you all pin to make it easy for your users to find more stuff they’re interested in.
    • Make sure to respond to anyone who does happen to wander in and leave a post or comment, don’t leave them hanging
    • Advertise it on your other social media since presumably you’re hanging around people with the same interests
      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        Remember most people are pretty new here and there’s no way for them to find new communities other than purposefully searching by keyword, or stumbling across a mention somewhere. So if it makes sense in context to give yours a shoutout, do it! If it’s relevant to the conversation you’re not spamming anyone, you’re literally helping them navigate.

      • babelspace@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I really like what you’ve been posting so far. I’ve been working more with image generating AI -but I would have been interested in following information regarding more general/text focused AI on Reddit, except all the communities I checked were pretty bad 😂.

        Some places I think you can promote it -
        artificial@kbin.social
        Any big technology community, there’s multiple on different instances
        If we can find an article related to image AI, I can post it to the stable diffusion groups. I’ve been posting at stablediffusion@kbin.social.

        • 𝕊𝕚𝕤𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕟@programming.devOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thank you! I’m glad you like my posts! I’ve definitely noticed most AI groups/subreddits being bad… The hype is at fever pitch nowadays so I guess that’s why they are full of low-quality filler content.

          I subbed to both of those magazines, but for some reason Lemmy federation with kbin is super slow, so it will take a while for me to be able to post in them.

          I actually had a super interesting article about the “hidden vocabulary” of image generation models in my notes that I wanted to post, so I went on and posted it now. It isn’t about Stable Diffusion but it might still be interesting to people in that group. Thanks again!

    • Manu@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      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!

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Good luck! If you’ve got seen it yet, lemmyverse.net is a newer better interface for searching communities so you might be able to use that to find some likely candidates to reach out to.

        • Manu@feddit.de
          2·
          1 year ago

          Didn‘t know about lemmyverse yet, appreciate the tip! Already found some communities I‘ll get in contact with, thanks