Fedigrow

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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
!fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com to organize overall fediverse growth
!reddit@lemmy.world to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
!newcommunities@lemmy.world
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Megathreads:

How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

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No bigotry

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Thinking of moving a community I have. (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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I mod the !iiiiiiitttttttttttt@lemmy.world community, I've managed to grow the number of subscribers from 360 to 800.

I'm thinking of moving it to programming.dev. Is this a good idea? I made a post asking this and I'm looking for feedback there.

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And almost invariably they act like I am asking them to give me their firstborn.

You can't infer that they are being possessive, when an equally possible explanation for that reaction is that they are offended on behalf of their community members, who would not want a unilateral consolidation of their community into another community that they feel no connection to.

Just because you mod a community doesn't mean you get to make the decision about where people gather for that community. When instances have different moderation rules and different vibes, you must have a consenting userbase in order to make decisions like that.

[–] rglullis 2 points 2 days ago

that they are offended on behalf of their community members

I'm talking about cases where there aren't any community members to speak of.