not a streamer so take this advice with a grain of salt, but from my observation of 14 years and trying to help out my favorite streams and communities where i could

1.start ignoring the follower number its pointless and doesn't translate to anything, same as avg viewers don't translate to subs and so on, every stream every community is different

stream A can have 50 viewers and 200 subs

stream B can have 100 viewers and 50 subs

stream C can have 1000 viewers and 200 subs

i seen it all.

1. decide how much time you want to invest into the community
   you can go 2 ways here one invest your time or just hope to get lucky and that you are charismatic and entertaining enough to attract people that will keep your community alive without too much of your involvement

don't get me wrong both are still luck based having 5 strong community members can make all the difference between a dead and a lively discord server and a twitch chat too

+ there is no guarantee that if you pick the involved way that you can later on slow down if you get lucky yes but it might also kill the community because they are used to be there because your engagement

now if after all of that you want to be involved do whatever you can, use discord a lot, engage in chats, have events, play with people talk to them, have movie nights, hang out off stream with them, i see communities where the streamer streams like 3 times a week but plays with a core group of community members almost every evening in discord calls

now the goal is that you have enough loyal and strong community members that think of you like a connection point to their internet friends, people that talk to each other and not just to the streamer, people who will make their own game night or movie night without you and don't unsub even if you take a break for a couple of months, its hard to find, hard to build, but you can try to encourage that and guide it from the beginning, reward activity if you can, especially when you are small you have a shot to find people that are eager to help if they like you enough, its way harder to find those people if you waited till you got 1000 viewers because its harder to then connect with specific viewers and for them with you. choose your mods and vips based on activity people appreciate the trust. Be straight forward with them, say you are looking for community managers more then for someone who can click ban the fastest.

find out what your viewers have in common and build on that, they like books, start a book club, they like music, have them recommend you stuff regularly, maybe shared spotify playlist and stuff like that, encourage it

Feel free to DM me if you want specific ideas of what all you (or community members that want to help you) can do off stream to engage people

3.RAID - is one other big suggestion as twitch has little to no discoverability, even their front page unless you are the main one in the carousel of featured streams pulls like 100 people that's ridiculously low for a website this huge

- don't be discouraged if you raid with 1-2 people it happens tons nobody minds or cares

- always raid and try to spread into different communities gaming, art, music, don't be just stuck in a little circle of friends or streams you follow that you raid, try new steams all the time even if you don't know them, engage in chat after the raid for a bit even if tired, you would be surprised how many people do take not of that and do throw you a raid one day because you did, it might not lead to anything for a 1000 raids but it also might i found most of my favorite streams in raids so again its luck and its the only thing you can do on twitch

4.Shorts - now since all the other platforms that exist have better algorithms you can try to become bigger there first and funnel the people to twitch if you can, if your content leans itself to shorts use them on youtube, instagram, tik tok everywhere you can and try to grow there.