I'm the creator of kbin.social/m/bestof. I have been 'advertising' the subreddit of it to start getting traction. Despite all my efforts, I'm still the only contributor to my community. How do communi

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.

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

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.

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.

Damn communists

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!

With the population of the Kblemmiverse right now, there are a limited number of active communities... and its easy to see a fair lot of them without really trying.

What is your goal with bestof? What do you envision it becoming?