How do I grow my community?

I made the !gamedev@sh.itjust.works community here and I'm not sure how to advertise it. I don't want to be obnoxious about it but I have to admit discoverability here is kinda bad

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Hanabie@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 3y

Just post stuff. If someone finds it interesting, they'll comment on it, and before you know it, you'll have built a community. I just started one myself, not really stressing myself out over it :)

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 3y
SuperV1@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y

The recepy should be activity, time and patience. Dont give up, looking forward to see good posts on local 🐱

WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y

There are a few 'new community' communities that you can announce in. Lots of people are checking them right now:

  • !newcommunities@lemmy.world
  • !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
  • !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
  • !findacommunity@lemmy.ml

if you have any questions about finding or subscribing to these federated communities, !LemmyTips@discuss.tchncs.de has some good posts like this one: https://sh.itjust.works/post/124476

inbano@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It would be probably pretty similar if you just started a sub on reddit or any kind of forum I guess. It interest me in particular you community, but I'm not sure how it would be the best war to solve this in general, the newcommunities shared by @bdonvr@thelemmy.club seem like a great idea to advertise without annoying many people, probably will keep an eye on that.

inbano@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

It just occurred me how it was usually done in reddit, you could advertise in related subs, for example !games@sh.itjust.works but it's usually done with the permission of the mods of these subs.

can@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Keep contributing to it so it appears in All

Sexypink@exploding-heads.com · -6 pts · 3y

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