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.
I try to make anyone that does participate feel like their comments/posts matter. I engage back with everyone so they feel seen/heard. I try to pay attention to what topics they want to discuss. I try to find new things they probably haven’t seen on their own to keep them surprised. I mainly just act like the people here are already my friends and treat them as such since it’s such a relatively small space.
I try to do that with my posts. I’ll look into the logistics of creating it soon and use the answers here to try and foster some engagement!
I scrolled your posts/comments quick, and you seem a pretty lively and engaging person. I think you will do fine, it’s just important to keep in mind things can grow really slowly here since it’s a much smaller user base than a lot of platforms we’re used to anymore. Best of luck!
Create it, and post. Don’t be one of those people who create a community and just ignores it.
Create the community and have 5 good posts. Then post once a day for a week so there’s fresh content. Take advantage of big fights that are coming up so there’s the most interest.
Then don’t forget to advertise in the new community communities.
There is a commmunity called new communities just for announcing new groups! 20k subscribers on Lemmy.world
- Posting
- Cross posting to relevant comms
- ‘Advertising’ comms like fedigrow etc
Build it and they will come
I am also quite new to lemmy. Is there anything like cross posting? Otherwise, maybe you could link your commonity in the comment section of a relevant post
