Best thing we can do is answering to newcomers, engaging in conversation etc. New users will usually quit Lemmy if they post something and nobody tries to help, or even worse when someone bash them.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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My name is Commander Shepard and this is my favorite Mass Effect community on the citadel.
Rules
- Be nice! We're all here for our love of Mass Effect. This is a welcoming community for all stripes, let's just remember there's people on the other side of the screen and act accordingly.
- Memes are great - seriously, I need more Mass Effect sh!tposting in my life.
- If you're here, you gotta post. Thems the breaks, kid.
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I try my bes to do that.
Super late to the game on commenting here, but I can't tell you how much I appreciate you asking this question!
I reached out to the Reddit Mass Effect team early on to let them know this community existed for anyone who might want to jump ship, and got a generic "thanks for letting us know." Which, hey, that's cool, I get it.
I think we're on the right track, though. We're only a month old. I was tickled to see so much content having been posted and an increase in overall engagement, as I'm just back online today after being offline for a week. Organic growth like this is the best kind we can hope for.
Building a community takes time and getting to know one another. Come to the page, engage with the content. May take some intentional effort at first, but I'm encouraged by the display we have so far. We're nothing if not an engaged fanbase!
At least we are having growth
I think it has to grow organically. It took Reddit over 18 years to get to 500 million active users. When you have that many users, you're bound to have a healthy number of users in niche communities. For Lemmy, we just have to give it some time by continuing to post in our community.
For the curious, this is what Reddit looked like in 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20050924153730/http://reddit.com/
reddits content looked so much higher quality.
The content will gradually come.
Thats interesting.
Ok, I'm just going to throw out a couple of ideas.
- First limit the amount of memes. I get that memes are funny, which i why i say limit and not ban. But if people come here and all they see is memes, they probably will not take this community seriously.
- Make useful posts. Share guides, popular new mods, anything relevant to people playing the game. I would also say any news, but that's probably going to be scarce for the time being.
- Start interesting discussions.
If you want to attract people, give them something to be attracted to.