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.

  • lixus98@kbin.social
    9·
    2 years ago

    If you want to crosspost content from reddit automatically use: https://github.com/driccio98/BotIt,
    It’s intended for links and I wouldn’t encourage using it for anything else cause you know, stealing content from others is not good.
    But if you need a link aggregator for your community this might do it.

      • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        in theory, you can exclude anything that is a text post, but a lot of the content posted on sum subs that you want are self posts. like sports post games, weekly resets in games, or transcripts of twitter threads.

        • lixus98@kbin.social
          3·
          2 years ago

          Yup, I made it so it would only post links. In my opinion is not a good idea to let the bot take every post it finds.
          Also it currently only posts 1 post at a time on each fetch so as to not flood the magazine and let users post by themselves.

          • GankTopPlz@kbin.social
            1·
            2 years ago

            Does it let you use it on specific users? Some bots would be useful to put it on. I know of a few that post relevant videos automatically or aggregate game API data that would be good to add to a few subs.

            • neal@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 years ago

              Fanny_B already set up a game bot for the baseball communities. If you run any other sports maybe check to see if he could help you out!

            • lixus98@kbin.social
              1·
              2 years ago

              This one just fetches posts from subreddits, something like that would probably need API access, and as we know, reddit will start charging for it.
              It might be a good idea to just port those bots (when doable) and make them post on Lemmy/kbin as well