I’ve been plugging away for about 2 months now trying to grow a small hobby community here on Lemmy. It’s doing well, up from 200 to 425 subscribers in the time I’ve been active.
But, sometimes it feels discouraging. I’m still the only one who posts with any regularity, and I miss the more in-depth discussions I was able to have at the other place. How long, or how many subscribers, does it take for a community to become self-sustaining?
Edit: !geocaching@lemmy.world for anyone curious
Think about it like this, in 2 months youve found over 400 people who care about what you have to say.
Congrats on growing a community!
Off the top of my head, what I remember from Reddit is that most subs with less than a thousand members barely had any activity. You can get lucky though, and just happen to have new people subscribing who are as passionate as you about the hobby and as vocal, but that’s unusual.
It takes so long time. I do subscribe to your geocaching community, and I read them, I’m curious about them but I have nothing really to contribute.
We’re in the wild west phase of growing Lemmy. Beyond general interest, technology, world news, it’s going to be hard to get the critical mass of people to a conversation going.
Keep up the hard work! I appreciate it
It lives or it dies. Why care either way?
