Moved from @Crul@lemmy.world

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • maybe lemmy is different

    My (100% speculative) theory is that lemmy/fediverse is too disperse for its size, a lot of very small communities with the exception of a very small number of successful ones.

    If that’s the case, this could help with the “nucleation” of mid size communities in the short term.

    I also find the experiment interesting and fun by itself. As said in the post, I don’t think anyone should post more that they like just for the sake of growth.

    Thanks for the feedback!




  • Of course I could be wrong, but I don’t agree.

    When people go to a community in which its last post was 2 weeks ago, it’s much less likely that they interact with that community (posting or commenting) than if the community has multiple posts per day. And that also affects the possibility that they come back in the next days. If you set the proper environment for enough users to interact and come back then, when the “campaign” ends, the level can be much greater than when it started.

    I’m not saying that just posting a lot in a community for a few days guarantees it will grow after that, that’s not how communities work. What I’m saying is that it can work with different degrees of success. And, if done properly, it can be fun to try.