Community-building guide / coordination point

This is a long-lived post intended to serve as a general guide and coordination point, for people interested in building communities on monyet.cc! (Context)

We're posting this in order be linked on the sidebar. But very happy to discuss / take input and questions while it's on the frontpage!

Essentials / tl;dr

• Create away!: You're welcome to build communities of all kinds here (small exceptions below). They don't have to be Malaysia-specific!
• (Temporary) Please rate limit your posts: Please post at most 3-4 items per day on a single topic. This is a short-term measure; see below for full details.

Purpose and context

• Our shared goals: Community mods and the admin team have the same goal: we want our communities to sustain and grow!
• Our roles: The admin team's main role is to create opportunities for users to visit and give us a try. But we need communities' help to convince them to create an account and stick around!
• Need for coordination: Users will only stick around if the whole experience is compelling: Sticky and unique content, good discussions, a rich default frontage. Achieving this requires coordination between our roles.

Community policies

Disallowed communities

• Communities for sharing NSFW image content (text content is fine): Policy

Temporary posting limits

• The problem: The Lemmy frontage algorithm is currently buggy: it is not good at blending content from different communities.
  • If you post multiple things at once, they appear as a solid block on the feed.
  • If you post a lot of content on one topic, this floods the frontage and drowns out our other content.
• What this means: The above makes the frontage worse for everyone and hurts our site's growth.
  • Your posts will be downvoted: Users hate a frontage full of posts with zero comments + all on a single topic!
• Temporary measures: Until this is fixed: Please try to limit activity to 3-4 posts per day on a single topic (and space these out across the day if possible).
  • This will be fixed soon: There's active work happening on this. Reddit's algo doesn't do this, so we're confident that this is solvable.
  • We will reach out and remove posts if needed to maintain the diversity of the overall frontage.
• Sorry: This is definitely not ideal. We want you to be able to post as much as you want too! :(

Growth Protips

• Keep an eye on metrics: You want users to participate in what you're building. Engagement drives growth, and growth drives more engagement. What kinds of posts receive the most comments and upvotes?
• Start with fewer rules: In most cases, it's better to create rules as they prove necessary. Having fewer rules encourages more participation! And when you add them, your users will understand why.

Coming soon(tm)

• Higher-quality metrics
• Community Discord
• Process for promoting a community on r/Malaysia
• Expanded community-building guide