Are you and your friends actual historians?
Focus on boosting comments instead of sheer volume of posts—people post specifically because they want answers, and seeing a long stream of posts with no responses makes them think it’s not worth bothering.
I think people’s familiarity with the r/askhistorians subreddit may be discouraging anyone without graduate-level academic experience from responding, but the subreddit didn’t start out requiring that level of rigor—it became more selective as the volume of replies increased. But for here, even a general-knowledge reply can encourage clarifying comments from more-informed people who may otherwise doubt their qualifications.
Answers would help. Posting random questions hoping others will answer isn’t what makes an Ask[X] community.
Keep posting daily for a couple years. That and post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca .
Just a guess, but maybe that you post a seemingly endless stream of mostly insincere and/or easily searched questions while rarely engaging with the people who answer you isn’t leading to interest in your other projects.
Which couple mated?
There’s nothing you can do.
I single-handedly carried the Jazz community for a year until I said fuck you people and I gave up.
I just think it is the nature of social media, only 1 out of 300 people want to contribute and put in effort for others to enjoy, the rest just want to drink from the content fire hose and be spoon-fed. And that’s me being generous.
