I havent found a good MMA/UFC/Combat sports in general community here. How could I start one and how could I foster engagement? Not asking for tech support just wondering how I could do it in general.
I try to make anyone that does participate feel like their comments/posts matter. I engage back with everyone so they feel seen/heard. I try to pay attention to what topics they want to discuss. I try to find new things they probably haven’t seen on their own to keep them surprised. I mainly just act like the people here are already my friends and treat them as such since it’s such a relatively small space.
Check out !fedigrow@lemmy.zip especially the “weekly thread - how is everybody doing with their communities?”, it’s basically people giving each other regular advice about that.
Thanks, currently trying to figure out the logistics of creating a community.
Well if you’re on the lemmy.world default web interface there should be a “Create Community” button at the top of the page. I never used it tho.
If you want to look for existing communities, check out the Lemmy Explorer. Apparently there are several existing MMA communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=martial+arts One strategy is to take over an existing community: 1) contact the listed mod, 2) if they don’t answer then contact Support for that instance and ask to be made a mod. But if you end up just making your own community, then you can make posts announcing it on all those old communities.
