If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That’s not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it’s a ghost town and leave.
If you have enough interest to create a community, you probably know something about the subject matter, so PLEASE add some posts (5-10 would be a good start). Maybe some questions to get people talking, even popular reposts from other sites. It sucks shouting into a void, but if you don’t do it, everyone else will also be shouting into a void.
Also please consider whether you need to create a community! When there are 100 million users of the site, there may be 1000 people who are interested in the same exact niche tabletop RPG as you, but there are <500,000 users here for now, so you’ll be lucky to find 10. Consider creating a thread in a broader community (like boardgames) until you have enough people talking in the thread that it gets messy - then it’s time to create a separate community.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Been trying to get Japanese Metal started and got in touch with some mods from other communities regarding crosslinking in the sidebar, which some of them did (some didn’t even reply).
Apart from that, I’ve been posting stuff from time to time, but only once has someone else made a posting. I don’t feel a call to action would help a lot. Even though the number of subscribers has gone up, the community is more or less inactive, except for when I post something myself, but seeing all the content there coming from the mod isn’t very encouraging.
Maybe Lemmy still has too small a user base, or the community’s visibility is bad – which wouldn’t surprise me, with Beehaw still defederated and lemmy.world having issues all the time.
I don’t want to advertise in other communities, either. Even though it’d not be actual “headhunting”, I feel it’s bad manners.
Any idea what else I could try?