It begins…
Found out via this post
Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.
It begins…
Found out via this post
Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.
It is near impossible to start a new community. The Lemmy code primarily favors existing large communities, and it needs to change to heavily promote new communities over existing.
Look what @[email protected] or @[email protected] are doing. Starting a community is definitely doable, if you keep at it.
I’ve kept at several, no one submits posts even after several weeks of submitting starter posts. It’s just very difficult. People just seem to like the status quo because it’s easier. I had to give up on [email protected] because almost no one was posting but me for an entire month, well that and plus I just ran out of things to post.
Trying [email protected] now, I’ll probably keep at that since public policy is a huge personal interest. It’s had some activity but it’s like trying to run up an escalator backwards with a 100lb pack blindfolded and drugged. lol. /c/politics even added it on the sidebar and there is almost no posts except mine. Posted links in several other communities including /c/newcommunities .
It’s just hard, not sure why my above comment was downvote so much. It’s hard, not impossible, but hard. I feel like it would benefit Lemmy if the devs were to modify the algorithm to promote rising new communities over existing ones to even the playing field. They tried with scaled sort, but I don’t think people use it much.
It takes longer than a month.
Curious about this one, politics seems a very popular topic on Lemmy. Did you post to [email protected] and others?
That’s a very common experience. We have regular threads on [email protected], this is definitely a recurring issue. On the other hand, if you can find someone to post with you, it feels very good.
Yeah it was posted to /c/politics and actually pinned for a few days. Had a lot of traffic from that while it was up but no regular posters. The problem was though there was a lot of pro Russia trolls and aggressive commenters. If it’s going to grow it needs to be reeeeeal slow, so I can’t really post about it much.
A little bit everyday. :) It was the same on Reddit until enshittification started, probably around the time porn disappeared from the front page. Lemmy is actually way easier to start communities on than Reddit is now.
Ps nobody wants to be the first to post.
Giving your own posts an upvote when you’re at 0 subscribers works wonders. I remember posting in the original version of RoughRomanMemes for literal months without significant interaction until I did that. Something about the ‘active’ feed I guess.
Once the community is grown you don’t need to do that anymore.
Aren’t post automatically upvoted by the person that posts them? Or, do you use alts to upvote multiple times?
I use my lemm.ee alt now. On Kbin it used to work if you self-upvoted, but Kbin doesn’t look like it’s coming back. I presume Mbin would work the same way, though.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve been trying to grow [email protected] and [email protected].
Hey, subbed to the former! Feel free to crosspost those to [email protected] with a mention of your sub if you like.
Thanks! I subbed and will definitely crosspost there.
Edit: typo
I regularly start communities
What do you mean “favors”? Like the algorithm pushes them to the top when viewing “all”?
I don’t think this is that big of a deal. The niche communities rarely reach the front page anyway. But people know to check them cause they care about the topic.
Maybe google SEO is a factor too. When I am lttp for a game or a show, google almost always has a link to the reddit sub on the first page.