How do I get people to see my community or know if people can find it? I was on Reddit for 2 days starting a community and got banned for NO REASON. I saw this was the closest thing to it so wanted to start here until Reddit (if they ever bother) checks my appeal.
Reddit but instead of a subscribed feed and an everything feed there is a subscribed feed, a feed of posts from your little particular corner of lemmy/fediverse, and an everything feed.
It is more complicated than that but honestly that is all you need to pick it up and try it out.
I think the other commenters hit the majority of things to do, but I would also suggest cross-posting your community’s posts to a related larger, less niche community (a community, not all related communities, otherwise it looks like spam). If there are multiple options, I suggest alternating between them, to get the widest net.
From what I gather from your community, some larger communities could be tabletop games or bar games. I think there’s an active table top games community, I don’t think there is a bar games community (might be worth a search to find out).
Good luck on building your community :)
Added it to Lemmy Federate; a few dozen bots will auto-subscribe to it to start with, but that will make it more visible across the Threadiverse, increasing the odds that people find it.
Wow, what a great idea. Does it work for PieFed, too? (I don’t seem to see PF-based instances listed)
Also wondering if anyone cared whether older communities were added to the list. Even 3+yr old communities (I run one) probably aren’t fully federated yet.
Instances choose to opt in by having an account on their instance subscribe to all applicable instances; those that opt in (including several Piefed instances) are on this list. In addition, some instances deliberately opt out.
Thanks, seems to have worked well! And I’m thinking this tool will help a community’s posts better show up in ALL streams, which can be a surprisingly helpful way to get eyes on it IME.
I also see some pretty major instances seem to have opted out, such as Lemmy.World, Sh.Itjust.Works, Europe.Pub and Quokk.Au. That’s disappointing, and I wonder what their deal is?
Instances not on the ‘Enabled’ list can still have their communities added, they just won’t be automatically added. I presume instances on the ‘Disabled’ list can’t have their communities added.
Hmm. Just added a couple Lemmy.World communities and they worked fine, even though that instance seems to be on the “NOT ALLOWED” list. And yet after a lookup, it’s not actually disabled. Okay.
You mean your community !yotyan@lemmy.world ? Make a post to !newcommunities@lemmy.world so other people know about it
although that’s a very niche topic, there might not be many people
Adding to the niche topic part, and poking @oceanbloom25@lemmy.world to ensure the message is seen, the more one posts to a community, be it yours or others’, the higher is the chance of others finding it, though I’d advise against spam and overposting.
If two people from different instances follow a community, the post gets delivered to them in their communities, and that makes the post available to anyone in their specific communities too. If they comment or (microblogging feature) boost, it further spreads, further increasing the chance of more people potentially interested in the topic to join in.
And I suggest no spam or overposting because it becomes annoying fast, making people stay away from the place, and drains your post pool, making for a “drought” of posts which also withers the interest in the topic.
Yeah I’m trying not to post a lot. I’ll prob start doing once a couple days or something. I’m used to yt, insta and so forth which is you spam to keep the algorithm working. This is a new level of patience lol.
I have a small community too, I try to only post two things at a time to not annoy people browsing All then wait 6hrs if there’s any else to post that day, which isn’t very often with emulation anyways. Takes a long time to grow a community that’s not politics, memes, or comics here still.
I think where people have trouble is when they spam every article or video about the topic into the post. If people see a flood of posts coming from somewhere, they might unsubscribe or block it.
Share good quality content when you find it. I think it becomes spam when you are posting a bunch of posts at once, or if it’s a bot that’s posting junk constantly. A few good quality posts a day, spaced out by a few hours, wouldn’t be seen as spam.
You don’t have to post that much, that’s just what I’d consider the upper limit
Also iirc posts to Ani.Social communities get bridged to #Bluesky through Web Bridgy similar to how the same posts federate to #Mastodon, meaning title and a link to the OP.
Yet to test in that regard, but if the bridge picks comments to those posts as a whole and parses potential hashtags as functional tags, and Mastodon does the same, you could maybe add a comment to your posts with relevant tags too (though again, maybe better to avoid spamming).
Basically yes, same idea. You signed up for a server, lemmy.world from the looks of it, and This Server talks to other servers running the same or similar software. Servers host communities, sometimes redundantly. If a server sucks, your server can be Federate from it so the posts don’t propagate. You posted them like subreddits you comment, everything more or less works the way you expect. Reddit used to be cool but it went down the drain. Said to see it go but we can recreate everything that was good about it. I’ve been using Lemmy for a while and if you want to discuss headlines and Tech you basically don’t need Reddit anymore, this place fills that need. For some of the more Niche stuff there aren’t really active communities yet, which you can fix if you like posting stuff. There’s assholes sometimes but it’s generally not a problem in my experience. It’s just the standard Internet troll problem not the turbo shit you get from corporate crap these days.
Does the down vote hurt anything? On Reddit I made a comment going “dang Reddit doesn’t let you delete your community”. I got -5 so deleted it 😂.
Downvotes don’t really matter here. There is not “karma” in the same way as on Reddit.
The userbase here is generally more positive, especially in hobby communities like the one you’re making. Also, from what I’m seeing from your comments, you’re already taking a careful and mindful approach to your community, so I don’t expect you will run into any issues.
Feel free to promote your community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca. You could even crosspost the
New to YoTyan? Here's a quick introduction!post you madeAlso, welcome! I didn’t know about YoTyan, it looks fun. Looking forward to more updates on it. Just note that you might be the only one posting for the first little while, until people learn about the community and start participating. For some of my communities, I treated them like personal journals for a while until they picked up steam.
Yeah that’s what I was doing on Reddit. I assumed it would be like any other platform building from scratch. I did one post a day third day got banned lol. Hopefully this site doesn’t ban people for posting 5 hours later or whatever.
I think Reddit is an exception for that. A lot of people have been banned for the weirdest reasons. I get the feeling that they don’t want to pay people to moderate at the admin level, and so they let their automated systems run amok. Since people and bots continue to make new accounts, this isn’t a big deal for them (yet)
They banned me 2 days ago. I didn’t do anything wrong. I guess being active made me seem like a bot. They’re strict and it’s annoying. I appealed but I doubt I’ll ever get my account or community back.
Whether it’s Lemmy or Reddit, making a community means building it from the ground up and posting a lot of stuff yourself. People can and will find it if it’s active, but that also means that you have to be active with it from the start.
Later, when people have joined your community, then you will be able to rely on others to start posting and commenting more.
Yeah I was doing that and trying to get karma but Reddit saw me is a bot. Hopefully I don’t get flagged here.
someone mentioned your community so I took a look. I often complain about people who make communities not putting info in the sidebar. you did that but as a person who knows nothing about YoTyan I now know its some sort of game and that does not interest me enough to go read posts on it. theres a lot of some sort of games around.
Yeah, when I started using Reddit three days ago (my account was 1 month old), my goal was to make a fun environment for the people that watch the streams. I was going to start by making Q&A-style posts so people who watch the streams could search for them in their browser and find the information easily. I’m not sure if Lemmy.world shows up in search results the same way Reddit does, but I was happy to find a similar site. I’ll just try my best not to look like a bot on here (not too active). 😅
This is exactly the kind of cool niche stuff that is underrepresented on here, so I hope you get some traction with your community!
Lemmy can show up in searches, although it probably doesn’t have the best SEO.
just fyi there is like a weekly mastodon watch party that does something like that. I don’t join in because the convo is on mastadon but I might if it was a community that did it.
People browse by /new
Spread posts out, and see if people start to engage.
People probably won’t know what that thing is, so posts explaining it would probably get more comments, and it would draw in people who know as well
Yeah I’m still in a Reddit headspace where they don’t like explaination posts. I’m trying to figure this website out I’ve looked at the getting started doc and then thought to check this community see if there’s questions and stuff.
The average interaction here is far kinder than on Reddit, but the worst interactions here are also far worse than Reddit too.
Reddit is full of bots - we also have tons of bots here too, but they tend to gravitate towards political news communities and yours likely will not be affected.
So, overall the Threadiverse is better than Reddit, FAR better in some ways, and a bit worse in others (especially we lack niche content). Enjoy!
pretty much. if you post to a community regularly it will eventually get noticed as many people peruse all. I advise posting regularly over timeperiods than all at once. again since people peruse all getting slammed form one thing can annoy folks compared to seeing it over time. you make a community on instances. instances decide what they allow or not. you could make your own instance if you wanted to but you would need hardware or vms and administer it and such. no real need as there are a lot of instances and most aren’t all that picky. might have a hard time if you want to make facist or alt right or such but there will be instances that will allow it they just are defederated from normal instances.
Share your community at !newcommunities@lemmy.world
