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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks
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- https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
- [email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
- [email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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- https://lemvotes.org/
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- How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
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edit: a lot of this is wrong. See my reply.
I'm still up in the air about what to do with [email protected]. My first instinct was to take this as an opportunity for consolidation and to try to grow an RTS community by posting to [email protected].
But it doesn't look great right now. In the original community I could pretty reliably get at least 2 or 3 upvotes indicating people saw it and appreciated it, in this new community I'm getting nothing. And neither is the sole other poster, @[email protected], who was posting to it. And the other related communities, [email protected] and [email protected] are even more devoid of response.
So I'm wondering if part of the issue is that reddthat may be too small of an instance and many users may not be able to find it due to federation issues. And maybe I should take the opportunity to sync over to Piefed, or launch a community in one of the instances recommended by @[email protected] or @[email protected] in the community's announcement post (or go with my initial idea of lemmy.zip).
But obviously the issue can't only be the size of the instance, since even the two larger existing instances are seeing so much less engagement than the one I'm moving away from. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why this could be and what to do.
if you think the problem with the rts comm from reddthat is that it isnt federated with many instances you could use the lemmy-federate so it gets federated with all instances allowed by reddthat.
also maybe you could crosspost to some active gaming comms so people see that there is an rts comm
Yeah I actually pointed out in a comment that I posted presumably after you loaded the page (only a few minutes before your comment was made) that the problem was me. I hadn't subscribed, so my instance wasn't federated with it.
Thanks for that link though. I knew that tool existed but couldn't remember the name or URL of it and couldn't find the last time I had seen it discussed. I like the idea of crossposting the bigger news, too.
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Ok that's on me. I wasn't subscribed to the community, so my instance wasn't getting any federation through. Still, I dunno if I should be nervous or not about reddthat's longevity. It does seem to be a single-user instance, which feels risky.
Single user? We have 300+ users who actively call Reddthat home and we won't be going anywhere. We are nearly cash flow positive thanks to our amazing users and recurring donations.
I've seen your posts and as your mod on !aom i'd be happy to make you mod of our !rts community to help grow it!
Edit: I know @[email protected] would love the help
Oh, thanks, and my bad! I looked at "local" from on reddthat.com and only noticed foreign users' posts, so combining that with the name of the !rts mod made me think they were the instance admin and only active user. Glad to see I was wrong!
Sure, I'd be happy to! As long as it wouldn't be stepping on toes.
It's a smaller instance, but has been around for quite a while
@[email protected] has always been very open with communication about the instance, feel free to ask him any questions
Cheers for the ping :)