Hey everyone! Figured I would do an AMA to kick off some activity in the IAmA community over here. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them

I’m currently a student in university and have been doing both web development and game development recently (web for internships, game on my own). Out of the four admins ive been the one mainly handling community creation and managing in the instance to make sure everythings running smoothly

Some other misc topics that I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, and my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3

If anyone else wants to do an AMA feel free to start one up in the community (assuming it fits the instance). Any activity helps get the ball rolling for getting it active

  • Ategon@programming.devOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is going to be from my point of view as I haven’t dealt with the back end of the server much currently (so ill leave challenges relating to that to snowe) but the biggest challenge has been getting people to know about the smaller communities that are starting up here to get them used. With the larger ones people in other instances can see the posts appear in new hot and active sort to then see that the community exists and subscribe to it but the smaller ones that dont have much starting activity only are really visible by those in this instance that are browsing the full community list

    The help from members that is most welcome for the instance is definitely contributing content. Posting things in different communities (especially the smaller ones) to get some things people can interact with is the biggest factor for getting more activity in the instance to then help it grow. The godot community here used to be the smallest one out of the godot communities in lemmy but due to all of the content that got posted and all of the people that have been interacting with each other in it its now the fifth largest in our instance and 4x the subscriber numbers of the next largest godot community. Replicating that with some other community like nim, programming elysium, etc. by adding in content would be a huge help