Hi all, since I imagine a lot of you are here for the same reasons I am (a dislike of Reddit, prefer open source) how about some thoughts on how we can pull more users over to Lemmy and this linux_gaming community?

I’ve been advertising it where I can but I can only do so much myself in between running GOL directly. There’s also an announcement bar on GOL that mentions Lemmy on rotation (it’s random on refreshes) at the top :) and I Tweet/Mastodon post about it at times too.

What can we do? Any interesting ideas?

We didn’t manage to break 1K by the end of May, so let’s go for the end of June for 1K subs to linux_gaming!

  • Rain
    15·
    3 years ago

    Post often and make sure the posts are useful or interesting. Make this place desirable and people will come

    • sirsquidOP
      53·
      3 years ago

      That’s a nice way to think but not the reality with a site such as this, especially when some places (like Facebook) ban sharing Lemmy links.

              • sirsquidOP
                2·
                3 years ago

                That’s interesting, a little unwieldy though. Buying a new domain would probably be better in the long run to give you more control too.

                • nutomicA
                  1·
                  3 years ago

                  Unfortunately it is impossible to change the domain of a federated instance, it would break all kinds of things for connected instances.

    • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
      3·
      3 years ago

      Also lemmy has been growing quickly over the last few months. A thread full of comments like this would’ve been impossible.

  • pinknoise
    6·
    3 years ago

    The only way I find websites is if they have usefull or interesting content and get indexed by search engines or linked to in other forums. I usually don’t participate, except for bug reports and patches, so this might not be a good way to get people to join.

  • Jeffrey
    1·
    3 years ago

    Maybe hosting events and meetups to get members of the community playing together. A few years ago, when Borderlands 2 was first released on Linux, lots of users on the Steam Linux User Group scheduled sessions to play through the whole game together and it was a lot of fun!