Digital Community Building

The Plan

As an introductory subproject, I will be reaching out directly to Lemmy moderators and asking for their experiences establishing and growing their communities. Once compiled, a summary of the experiences will be written up in a living document for current best practices. To do this, I will be contacting moderators in sets of roughly 5-10 at a time. This will allow for constructive iteration in a way that posting on the “new community” subs (as is more or less standard practice) simply would not.

What then?

Once there are enough resources to be useful I'll make announcement posts in relevant communities as well as reach out to the mods of communities like [email protected] about being linked in the sidebar.

And long term?

We'll organize a series of activity drives intended to build bonds and strengthen the institutional knowledge of the fediverse. These initiatives may include:

• Wiki Building
• Outreach Drives
• Community Consolidation and Organization
• Cross-Community Collaboration
• Housecleaning

The project hopes to directly advance fediverse connectivity and curation by establishing easy to follow best practices for building a digital community from scratch. It is also meant to push the boundaries on current methods and help advocate for the building of institutional knowledge.

This community is very much an experiment, but it is also a place to experiment. With this in mind, if you are considering trying something new, please consider posting your ideas and results. To that end, much of this project will be composed of living documents that will change as we further develop this concept.

Please post your experiences as a Lemmy or Kbin moderator/admin, and I'll type them up into a guide that'll exist as a living document in the sidebar and on the wiki entitled "Building a Lemmy Community From Scratch". If applicable, please make note of what efforts did NOT work as well as what did.

--- A draft of the document will appear here after a minimum number of responses have been collected.