The project hopes to directly advance fediverse connectivity and curation by establishing easy to follow best practices for building a digital community from scratch. It is also meant to push the boundaries on current best practices and help advocate for the building of institutional knowledge.

This community is very much an experiment, but it is also a place to experiment. With this in mind, if you are considering trying something new, please consider posting your ideas and results. To that end, much of this project will be composed of living documents that will change as we further develop this concept.

What’s the Plan?

As an introductory subproject, I will be reaching out directly to Lemmy moderators and asking for their experiences establishing and growing their communities. Once compiled, a summary of the experiences will be written up in a living document for current best practices. To do this, I will be contacting moderators in sets of roughly 5-10 at a time. This will allow for constructive iteration in a way that posting on the “new community” subs (as is more or less standard practice) simply would not.