Just gotta be a serial poster, I guess. Unless you start running ads. No, even then you need posts for people to see when they come in. Reddit started with the staff using a bunch of fake accounts to post and engage. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/
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Cool I ask because someone said to slow of on posting to movies on lemmy.world and post to movie lemmy.ee so I was just wondering and I know I am a serial poster on TIL
It was me.
Actually, !movies@lemm.ee is already more active than the LW version (4200 monthly active users vs 3400)
We have a few active posters
We want to avoid centralization on LW for reasons explained here: https://lemmy.world/post/14728407
Ideally, we would like people to join us on the Lemm.ee community (especially as it is the more active one), but for some reason some posters stick to the LW version.
Tbh, it is very hard to jump start an online community, anywhere. Discovery is a process, and you end up having to game whatever system is in place.
For lemmy, the only way that I've seen is to either have an obvious name that will be searched for heavily (and most of those are taken now), or to recruit willing hype men to also post a lot. That way at least there's going to be less serial posting, and you'll likely get different types of posts, since even when a few people agree on the goal and subject matter, you'll get a little difference in interpretation.
A regular discussion topic on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.world/post/14732169
Basically, you just post until someone else answers