I resurrected: Degoogle!degoogle@lemmy.ml and have been trying to grow it a bit.

It was on 3.56k subscribers and 152 active monthly users on 21/7/23. 117 posts.

Now 4.54k, 333 active monthly users, 135 posts.

Best techniques I found was reach out to larger subs in a similar area with similar interests, link to their communities in your description and ask if they could do the same to help users find what they like. Also crossposting is great from larger areas. You can see crossposts from the main post and it’s easy to click and deep dive into there. Crossposting about 3 posts which resonated with the users did most of the heavy lifting.

Be the change you want to see.

You thought they were the leaders. They’re the followers, staying near the crowd.

Building communities is hard and takes time.

Checkmate!

I think there is a FOSS projects based on Settlers 2 called Widelands. If you like that, it might be worth checking out.

Loved the first one. It was a great game. I’m off the Nintendo ecosystem now though as I cannot justify the prices they charge for old games. As a patient gamer, I find that galling.

Don’t make me dust off the cube…

Elon says a lot, occasionally it isn’t out of his arse.