I guess this is a me trying to figure out how to grow lemmy or fediverse in general. Just getting frustrated and want to do something constructive and put idea out and have idea come in.

In me head I head this line of “will you after engagement grows will you improve a project or will you improve a project to encourage engage” to me the answer settled on keep doing what you can to improve project and kinda hope it increases engagement.

For lemmy it seems as though the technical side is solid it’s just building lemmy communities. Right now I’m thinking of building a Florida c/ but it would come off as a hard endeavor because idk what I’d do with it. Would I post random new stories in Florida would it be politics. Plus I’ve been told that posting links “clutters the Internet” and people would get confused as to where to find original links. Then there’s getting people to a Florida c/, do I just go into discords and tell people about a fledging group

I do want geographical based c/ since they are more personal to people and would increase engagement on lemmy but that small steps that need to be worked out.

I do wonder if it would be worth it do sneak content from reddit to relevant c/. I know they do it for NSFW subreddits, but it might be worth it for hyper specific subreddits just to have that content to engage with, but that could be viewed as an IP infringement

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    20 hours ago

    When Myspace, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Digg, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok etc. became popular it was because the young crowd 15-25 year olds made it that way.

    You want the Fediverse to grow? You’ll need young people to do it.

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      18 hours ago

      Aren’t they all gambling addicts now? Now I’m not gonna condemn someone using an owncast or peertube stream of a gambling stream.

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        15 hours ago

        I don’t know about the gambling but I do know they are struggling in many aspects of life ex. Education/financial

        It’s possible the next few generations will see the failures of the previous generations and learn from them.

        Which will hopefully lead them to spaces that give them back their agency like the Fediverse.

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    3 days ago

    Lemmy is literally a link aggregator. You link to stuff and then it can be discussed.

    If you wanna create c/florida, go for it. Post news, politics, humor, facts, questions etc. related to Florida.

    If you need inspiration, you can always look at that other place subreddit 😉

  • 𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I guess my biggest question is why you have a desire to start a community for Florida in general if there are a few for general Florida content and a lot for cities, sports teams, etc. already.

    I’d recommend finding a community for Florida that you feel most at home with and post related content there.

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      3 days ago

      Of course my slow instance glitches when I looked up Florida. Ugg.

      Florida was more on my mind to use as a concrete example. I do have a county and city level c/ that I created months ago that I can do start doing something with.

      But i could do a c/cdda and just gather post from reddit