Hello there! Please edit your post title to include a question. In the meantime, i'll try to extend this comment to help give some suggestions on growth. :)

edit: Alright, so. If you want your community to grow, it HAS to hit the front page. Post things that most people will like. This is what will get you up & running the fastest. Grab a top content from other platforms if you have to.

On lemmy.world, for instance, making a post with a catchy title on New Communities is a good way to get your community started. Find the counterpart on kBin or try posting it on the one we have here. You can also have it featured in bigger communities.

Always have a pinned post that your members can freely participate on. Explain to them what your goals and views are regarding that community, and what purpose the community is supposed to serve. You might find some people willing to help boost your community activity. If you can't, then openly ask for help. You can't have a community alone; it wouldn't be a community.

Remember, you need content, quality or not, crosspost or not. It needs to be scrollable. While having said that, please don't start out with scraper bots. Many people see it as a repulsive thing nowadays.

You don't. You merely keep the community from dying by posting your own content periodically and you wait. You can't control them though, and trying will piss them off.

In general, provide content people want, let people know on appropriate forums, and wait. My subreddit took almost 10 years to get 15k subscribers and the first few it was maybe 5 people myself included that were contributing.

You gotta spread the word.

But, being real, it's going to be slow. The nature of the beast with lemmy/kbin is that there's a very long discovery process. So, not only do your have to spread awareness of your c/, you have to have those users be active on a lot of other ones, and feel motivated to share links on yours.

There's the new communities c/ on lemmy.world (I think? Could be lemmy.ml, my brain is fried rn) though. It's helped me discovery wise. And you can't be afraid to do a little self hype. Like, when you find something to post on your magazine, tell/ask the person you're borrowing from that you did so/want to. Provide a link to that bestof post as well.

Yeah, it's shameless self promotion, but you won't have to do it long, assuming the lemmy/kbin world stays steady.

Edit: make sure your link is formatted right for jerboa/app use as well.

The nature of your sub also requires that viral Lemmy posts propagate in order to even be considered to belong, which might make it even more difficult to gain traction. I haven't been around that long here but I'm guessing you only have one post...the 3 day poop post lol.

I'll subscribe though!

How do I subscribe to your magazine from lemmy?

I am currently using jerboa for lemmy, on an android tablet. When I tap on the link in your comment, I get prompted to declare which app should be used to open it.

That makes me immediately back out.

Yep I created a community for faceting gemstones, and am still the only one posting. Got some interactions, but no content besides mine. I’ll keep at it though, the eternal optimist that I am. 😉😂

faceting

Damn communists