How can I best go about building and growing a Lemmy community (lemmy.world)

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I havent found a good MMA/UFC/Combat sports in general community here. How could I start one and how could I foster engagement? Not asking for tech support just wondering how I could do it in general.

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[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, you totally should make a community for that if you can't already find one.

I think that you want to do next is just start posting relevant news stories on a regular basis in order to build up some kind of audience of subscribers. RSS feeds on various website and blogs can be a good way to source news stories to post here on the fediverse, so I recommend taking some time to set up some feeds that you can check regularly.

Once you have a decent little audience, then you should be able to get some discussions going. And the community can continue to grow from there. Creativity goes a long way here.

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