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I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I'm most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all.

What are you doing to help your community? How do you go from lurking to contributing? Spreading the word?

Also, what's for breakfast?

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[–] CarrierLost@lemmy.one 14 points 1 year ago

This is a good start.

I’m trying to be more vocal than I have been in the past, specifically because if everyone lurks, there’s nothing to read. So even creating silly chat threads is a good start, to drive engagement.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago

I don't proselytize, since everyone I know uses facebook, twitter etc. I'm the only one who views non-anonymous social media harmful on individual and community level.

Every time discussion turns to this subject, they all get this "here we go again, not listening" expression on their face. So, I'm not gonna go there anymore.

Breakfast was French tee, jogurt and mueslibar.

[–] wreel@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Concentrate on just a few communities to comment and post. It'll be too easy to spread yourself thin and feel overwhelmed. If you feel you're very knowledgeable in a particular area then that community needs you now.

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Yep. No time to be active in every community. We should focus on just a few each day.

Good points.

[–] Steeve@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

What am I doing? I'm letting it grow naturally instead of posting condescending low effort crap like this post

[–] Noreia@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

I am doing what I would have done on reddit, comment, interact with people. I rarely made posts over there as well though. I do also tell people about lemmy and about the jerboa for lemmy mobile app

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

That would imply that I have some sort of duty to participate. I do not.

[–] Ni@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I feel like I've been glued to kbin since joining, and adding new posts and articles to the smaller communities I want to see active. With varying degrees of success. I was only a lurker on reddit so this is quite a lot of activity for me! Trying to embody the idea of 'be the change you want to see'...

I don't want to create magazines though as I don't want to moderate and feel they would be better created by someone more dedicated.

Oh and breakfast was a sesame bagel!

[–] Lazycog@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.

I started by posting into my favourite communities !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and !minimalism@lemmy.world. Starting to feel like it's getting traction now. I'm sure many checked the communities out and didn't stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!

Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning...

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope you have an excellent lunch later. A rumbling tummy can be distracting.

I'm trying to contribute on the regular. One downside is the Jerboa app. It crashes when trying to add a community outside of it's search bar. I'd have subscribed to more except for that. I might find more stuff to participate in if that were not the case.

[–] Lazycog@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I did and agreed!

And glad to hear you are active, sad about jerboa crashes :( I use lemmy as a PWA and it has been great, but still looking forward to a stable app. Let's hope development catches up!

[–] Knightfox@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Loved that crazy movie!

[–] DonjonMaister@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

I have nothing interesting to post about. I'll just upvote and comment here and there. If I find a community I like, I will engage more often.

[–] thanksbrother@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I messaged the owner of /m/cigars@kbin.social to see if they intended to be active and didn’t hear back, so I made /m/Tobacconist@kbin.social and have been posting anything relevant I could while I wait for other people that maybe care at all about that stuff.

Otherwise I’m trying to pick one sub to post to for each of my broader hobbies, and I respond regularly to whatever pops up in /all

No food yet just coffee - probably make an egg Sammy soon

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Same here with the coffee. I'll have a cup or two before moving on to a banana or apple later.

Excellent work in creating a community You're braver than me. I'll join both. Although my cigar smoking is a rare occurrence, I do enjoy a good tobacco.

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[–] WaffleFriends@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m definitely becoming a kbin shill to all my friends and I think they’re starting to get tired. I’m trying my best to leave comments on posts that I find interesting. Haven’t posted anything yet because I don’t have anything to post. I will post when I find something interesting enough (I do have a backlog of stupid memes on my camera roll?).
Breakfast was a granola bar. Slept in because it’s a holiday and I don’t have class. There’s a cinnamon roll I was planning on saving that I’m now eyeing.

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[–] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I created my community (for fanfiction), after realizing I couldn't wait for someone else to do it. I don't usually have enough spoons to constantly post things. Interacted some, but not a whole lot on Reddit. I'm working with what energy I do have to make a good foundation.

Hopefully, one day, enough people will be around to interact I can go back to my comfortable amount of interaction. I just want to read people talking about their projects and what they are enjoying! It can't be too much to ask!

[–] Jormar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@a_mac_and_con Just subbed! I was looking for it and found another fanfiction magazine that only had a single post that was created a few days ago. I was disappointed, but then I found yours. Thank you.

@MyMulligan

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[–] LostCause@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I‘m commenting as many things as I can think of and upvoting everything, but other than that I haven‘t contributed much. It‘s a work in progress.

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I've been consistently sorting by all+new and trying to comment on posts that relevant to me. It can be a bit difficult when it's just a link or image though.

And Raisin Bran

[–] Garrathian@fanaticus.social 4 points 1 year ago

Currently not doing enough to help. Real life has just been far too eventful lately and I haven't been online much haha. But I will try to convince people to subscribe to some of the sports communities my instance is hosting. Want to help grow it.

Besides that, just upvote as much as possible and comment as much as possible, and throw out posts for a community even if you think it's not that interesting. Just need to fill up the wall and show there's frequent activity and the people will come

[–] linh@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started a magazine on kbin.social for the anime I like but since the community stayed behind it's only me there. However, I still repost fanarts like I usually did on Reddit.

[–] SuaveBet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] linh@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindfultameprism@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I'll watch, and if I like it, I'll join. My husband and I watch a new one every few months or so anyway.

[–] mabd@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I created a lucid dreaming community: https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming
I've added a few threads, articles and videos. Hopefully that's at least something to start with.

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is so cool! I was able to lucid dream in my twenties after discovering an article and then a book about it. I still remember the four lucid dreams I had. I then let the skill slip away. It was a lot of effort and I found I couldn't be overly tired in order to do it. I'll have to check the group out. Maybe I'll build the skill again.

[–] mabd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds awesome :) Yeah, it is possible to approach it in a "lighter" way. If you don't take it too seriously, for example, or learn to enjoy your non-lucid dreams. Also finding the "right approach" for you will help. It's definitely exhausting to put a lot of energy into something that isn't working well.

[–] Ni@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for adding this, subbed!

[–] mabd@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent! See you over there :)

[–] Lianrepl@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I made @Internetparents but it's still very quiet

[–] dominoko@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I've been making discussion oriented posts on a lot of communities that have little to no content. It's been somewhat successful.

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 3 points 1 year ago

My co-mod and myself are keeping the content flowing, interest in hunting for and engaging with the type of content we publish seems light right now unless you are on twitter. We'll keep it flowin and stealthy build in public.

[–] kriss0706@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am an ex-reddit user and had to leave due to u/spez ruining the platform.

I've had a look on the different decentralized platforms we have in today's age, and stumbled upon kbin.
I really like it.

I've been told if i want to start a community, i would have to run it on my linux server. Is it relatively easy for others to join? I could easily run one if any of you have a suggestion, drop me some ideas.

Question:
These communities, are they working on all decentralized platforms? Like mastadon? Or is it for strict use on kbin?

[–] sotolf@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You don't need to have your own server to open the equivivalent of a subreddit (magazine) just click the plus in the topbar and click "create new magazine" :)

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Open invite for all musicians to head over to !songcovers on the reddthat.com instance and post their cover videos! I'd love to get that community going but only two posts so far!

[–] PeterGintz@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I created this magazine if anyone is interested. I could always use some help with content!
https://kbin.social/m/Watches

[–] barrett9h@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Also, what’s for breakfast?

toast and coffee, as (almost) always

[–] CynAq@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I am a conversationalist but not a prolific content poster.

I try to comment as much as possible on stuff I feel is interesting and I boost and upvote every thread I comment in.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm actively looking into getting the kbin project installed locally so I can get some UI/UX pull requests going. I've given it a good go today but keep running into issues getting it set up, I've already logged a report and joined a forum with other devs but everyone is busy AF with their own thing so I guess all I can do is wait :(

It sucks to to be stuck.

If randomly there's a person on here who's familiar with docker and yarn I could use all the help I can get!

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[–] Ross232@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I really hope this works out. I'll start trying to post more frequently.

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the begining I was rolling through the subs that I'm interested in that weren't getting a lot of engagement and posting something, and trying to engage with some other content that was on there. I'm doing it when I have time. Hopefully others are doing the same.

We're getting there, it def feels as though these instances have more legs than the Twitter Masto experience in the fall. Just gotta keep engaging and sharing content. The emphasis though should be on engaging on pre-existing content, with meaningful comments. Just dropping in and saying "interesting article" probably isn't going to be helpful.

[–] MyMulligan@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Correct on that. Every magazine/community needs wise souls sharing their knowledge and insights on things. Ask Historians and some science subreddits were a big draw for that.

We could also use good story tellers who make for some interesting reading in the comments.

Given time all of that will happen here.

It would be nice to have assurances that if the instance you are on goes dark then another instance can take care of you and your stuff. I don't know enough about the concept and workings to know if that's the case.

[–] CatBookCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

my boardgames post has so much interaction

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sort by new, comment and subscribe to communities on other servers. That seems the easiest way to doing something "cheap".

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[–] Jormar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@MyMulligan Planning to add a few articles. Daily post. Weekly themed things. Things to get people talking.

Today's breakfast is Fried Tofu and Rice, with some salt. Simple but delicious.

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