How does a first time community maker find subscribers? (fanaticus.social)

submitted 1 year ago by PitchPlease@fanaticus.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just created the !realmadrid@fanaticus.social commuity for football/ real madrid fans and have had a decent number of subscribers in a day. I still dont know how to get more people in tho, especially active members who would post. Yesterday was surprisingly good since I made a post on a bigger football community basically advertising my sub and it was gamenight. Any tips?

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[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

The main bottleneck for growth for a new community, is the fact that until someone manually subscribes to it from another instance, it's only discoverable on its home instance.

A trick to get over this hurdle is to use a couple alts to subscribe from some other instances, which will then mean more people will see posts from it in all.

[-] PitchPlease@fanaticus.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you aware of any way to check what instances I'm already federated with. There's 30+ subscribers to the community so idk how many of the major instances are subbed on

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Simply try to open the community from that instance. Add the /c/community@instan.ce to the other instances url and see if it opens. If it does, it's already there, if it doesn't, it's not.

[-] PitchPlease@fanaticus.social 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks thats very useful!

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