lel I declined to be a mod on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world for exactly that reason. I hope it helps people see it’s not just mods.

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First off all, take a look at !fedigrow@lemmy.zip, it’s a place where people who do this kind of thing talk about it.

Second of all, that’s a great question and something that we ask ourselves a lot. There are a couple different approaches.

• just ask people to join in on posting. Sure, make a “meta” post, but also dm people who reply or ask them in comments (so others can see as well)

• have “events”. Like there’s one now on !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social related to Halloween movies, where anyone else is welcome to join in. On !sumo@lemmy.world , which will probably always be niche, I just make a post at the beginning of the bimonthly tourneys telling people how to follow the tourney, and I say I’ll only be posting 3 more times over 15 days and they’re welcome to also post if they want.

• queue up several posts at once and schedule them to be posted later. You can do this in piefed or there was some other service for lemmy I think, or just write them out in a text file. On !juggalos@lemmy.world I have weekly posts queued up for the next month. Say something like “here’s my weekly post! feel free to make your own!”

Hope that helps!