• theorangeninja@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Hello, I recently tried to find some outdoor communities but they all seem quite dead. And I don’t know how to try and revive a community. Any tips?

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Post there. Spread them out over days/weeks. I see too many people fill up a community in a burst making it only appear in feeds for a day.

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I guess to revive a community:

      • find something to post on a regular basis. e.g. on [email protected] I post a weekly announcement about the upcoming Monsterdon movie viewing (with links and background info); LaurenceWolse posts 2-3 movie overviews a week, and there we have the basis for a moderately active sub.
      • find another couple of people to help you out by posting regularly
      • keep posting on this community’s weekly thread and getting advice/inspiration from other posters here
        • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          16 days ago

          Would you like to create a general popculturechat community on your instance? People regularly bring up that they would like more content on that topic

        • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          17 days ago

          I wouldn’t stress about it. Communities don’t have to be active all the time. When I remember the Dunder Mifflin (fandom for tv show The Office) sub back on r$ddit, it was always active, but it was the same limited number of arguments and jokes and catch-phrases over and over. It was kinda amusing, but also kinda braindead. Why not just wait until there’s a new tour or album or other news?

          I had a similar experience with [email protected]. The Japanese tournaments only happen every 2 months, so it’s dormant now… instead of trying to “force” discussion, I’m just waiting for a couple more weeks where it’ll be back to daily posting for the 15-day tournament. If I came across some awesome news or media I might post it but otherwise I’m not going to stress it.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Thanks for the insight honestly, that makes sense and I remember dunder Mifflin. If people can hang around for years for a show that old then I’m sure my community will be fine too