Advice for Indigenous Discord Server
Hey everyone! Kwira bá! I run a server for Rarámuri ra’icha learners. I keep the server private, invite-only because we have occasionally gotten trolls. My question is: has anyone had experience with a group like this, keeping the community active and engaged, etc? I was running Zooms to go through a workbook, but I regret to say I dropped off doing that as I started to get tired doing it and sometimes had low attendance.
A few years later, our numbers have grown—about 100 or so—but a lot of people are offline and my attempts to have Voice Room chats aren’t working. People don’t come to regularly scheduled chats (including me). I have been busy trying to write grants and form a nonprofit and be a parent. There are a few people, certainly one or two, who are really well versed in the language, but they are feeling shy and don’t want to take on a teaching role.
Does anyone have good advice for me for revitalizing the server? I care about my ancestors’ language and am happy to be among ‘fam' but am hampered for time and energy to do more. I guess I could:
- dedicate some time to run some group learning Zooms myself, but I don’t love centering myself
- find new moderators (some of mine are busy with school and parenting)
- make the server public and promote it (…but see the first two points…)
I appreciate it! Matétera bá!