So let’s try this again. My last post sort of got derailed because I am an idiot and used instance instead of community.

Anyway I am here to see what’s working for everyone else. I would like to help grow some of the smaller communities I am apart of and looking for ways to be helpful and interactive without straight up having to make my own video content.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    1 year ago

    Posts that invite comments tend to get comments. That’s why the “ask” communities get so much comment traffic. An interesting post might get upvotes, but if there’s no call for engagement then people will simply look once and move on.

    Upload pictures directly to your posts instead of linking to external content. Folks don’t necessarily have time (or interest) to stop what they’re doing and go watch a 20-minute video on another site.

  • freamon@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I’m not sure, tbh. I’m feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.

    I’ve been involved in actively trying to build up an existing Community: I posted stuff, people saw it on All, and subscribed. From that point, growth should be exponential - if you get an extra 100 subscribers, at least 1 of them should be able to overcome their crippling insecurity and post something, but in reality, nothing happened. I kept posting, but repeated mining of my own sense of what’s funny just revealed how far adrift my own sense of humour is from a universal sense, and that was that.

    You can do what you like to try to grow a Community, but if the people you bring in are the same type of Entitled Toilet Browsers you already have, it won’t mean much.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’m feeling pretty doomy about Lemmy lately.

      We’re definitely coming down from the optimism during Rexit. I think Lemmy can still find its vibe and become its own unique thing rather than being a little Reddit copycat. Though it depends on us users being more proactive about participating rather than lurking.

  • dap@lemmy.onlylans.ioEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I want to try and create discussion about videos that may be less main stream. Video (specifically medium- to long-form) is my preferred type of content to consume, however I don’t have the ability to create my own content. !Videos@lemmy.world is great but as @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works mentioned below:

    Posts that invite comments tend to get comments.

    !Videos@lemmy.world doesn’t directly ask for discussion on the videos posted. I created a community, !whatareyouwatching@lemmy.onlylans.io, to try to bridge this gap. The idea is that you find an interesting video, you watch it, and then you post it with your main take-away or a question you had to try and foster a discussion.

    Not sure if it is working, but that’s my own methodology to trying to increase engagement with content that I don’t personally produce.

    Also, I am running a small self-hosted instance for friends, so my name may not be as “out there” as the larger instances, but I’m pretty sure that anyone can post to this community.