I wish r/polls equivalent on Lemmy was more popular. As a moderator, how often should I post or engage to help increase its activity and attract more users?
I wish r/polls equivalent on Lemmy was more popular. As a moderator, how often should I post or engage to help increase its activity and attract more users?
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First off all, take a look at [email protected], it’s a place where people who do this kind of thing talk about it.
Second of all, that’s a great question and something that we ask ourselves a lot. There are a couple different approaches.
just ask people to join in on posting. Sure, make a “meta” post, but also dm people who reply or ask them in comments (so others can see as well)
have “events”. Like there’s one now on [email protected] related to Halloween movies, where anyone else is welcome to join in. On [email protected] , which will probably always be niche, I just make a post at the beginning of the bimonthly tourneys telling people how to follow the tourney, and I say I’ll only be posting 3 more times over 15 days and they’re welcome to also post if they want.
queue up several posts at once and schedule them to be posted later. You can do this in piefed or there was some other service for lemmy I think, or just write them out in a text file. On [email protected] I have weekly posts queued up for the next month. Say something like “here’s my weekly post! feel free to make your own!”
Hope that helps!