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I just created the [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yesss I knew there was a community like that and couldnt remember the name for the life of me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a couple similar ones on other instances, but that's the main one I know a lot of people watch.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just post to your community, it’ll show up in the new feed and those who browse will see it.

Not me though, filtered that whole instance because I have zero interest in football

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But this is the good football, not the american kind :(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a real good way to alienate a huge part of lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Both handegg and football are not interesting to me

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right the federation issues, so making few throwaways sounds like a cool idea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You should only do this on a couple of the big instances. You shouldn't force a community to federate to everywhere. If someone wants to see it, they'll sub.

And it's not really an issue, it's intended behaviour that makes it so that each instance only federates the minimum needed. It saves on instance traffic and storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah I know atleast 7 instances it's federated with. Ig i'll just let it take it's natural course

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks thats very useful!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Find relevant threads and mention the community in the comments.

If you see posts compiling related communities (ex. Larger Football/soccer comms), you can ask them to add yours.

Post content! Enough people use "local" or "all" feeds that they'll see your community when you post something cool.

Finally, you've already posted in newcommunities, then later on you could also do [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I like all that, thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Oh and please join the community if you're a football fan!