Welcome!

Based on my observation from the early days, she just posted and posted and posted and posted for a few months until there's organic content coming from other redditor, while on the main sub every removed post will be directed to r/msians, which is why some people single her out with their mod hate at that time.

I messaged her a few days ago and she confirmed that's how she build it from the ground up. She also have alternate advice, which is to run it like a business, but without involving money.

So from the beginning i simply posted and posted and posted while engage with almost everyone in their conversation, hopefully in long terms people will slowly gravitate toward this community because it doesn't looks dead. Then when there's sizeable amount of user i plan to run some event which can be crossposted to reddit. My opinion on the other comment are all based on my observation of r/msians and r/msianfood, both build from the ground up using the same method.

Though i must admit running a satellite community is tougher than building a new sub, but i think it's worth a try.

Hey, a new face! Welcome!

Great point actually, I'll speak to hyatt about her experience bootstrapping r/mys. She did that incredibly well. There are definitely some tools we can use here.

Yeah it's paid - I’m sponsoring this initial period but if this becomes an ongoing thing we’ll probably figure out donations or something, so the community can properly own the server. It’s real cheap though, honestly!

(Also hmmmm there's definitely something wrong with the active user stats, you've just joined recently, it was 67 before, and it's still 67 now. But I'm going to bed - more replies tomorrow!)

seems like I'm the only one who recognised you 🙈