I’m looking for a way that’s appreciated by the community and doesn’t break any rules. I just created one that I think was missing here.

  • mommykink@lemmy.world
    23·
    9 个月前

    Just a few unobtrusive ways to organically advertise a community:

    • Mention it in adjacent communities.

    • Cross-post posts from it onto related pages and be sure to watermark OC and link to the original post.

    • Link to the community on other social media pages.

    • Engage with every post and comment your community receives. People will be more likely to return to a community where they think they’ll get interaction and feedback for their engagement.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      9 个月前

      Great answer … came to say the same!

      Reposting with better formatting though (no blank lines in between bullet points)

      • Mention it in adjacent communities.
      • Cross-post posts from it onto related pages and be sure to watermark OC and link to the original post.
      • Link to the community on other social media pages.
      • Engage with every post and comment your community receives. People will be more likely to return to a community where they think they’ll get interaction and feedback for their engagement.
        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          9 个月前

          In the web interface the white spaces disappear and destroy the bullet points, which is not what you see I presume and objectively worse. Interesting that the apps are using different markdown parsers, which is dangerous given that each have their idiosyncrasies.

          • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
            2·
            9 个月前

            As someone who used to do web dev & design, I’d die and go to heaven if any two environments managed to render with a passing resemblance between them (especially between environment type – web, mobile, pc, refrigerator).
            That sounds like a good candidate for an open source library, if it isn’t already, right? Standardise more things?

            • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              9 个月前

              Well lemmy is using a package to process markdown that is OSS as far as I know, so it should be possible to bundle that with any app.

    • LemmyHead@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      9 个月前

      I created one about alcoholism. Because it was one subreddit I saw a very warm and supportive community back in my reddit days. As it’s a problem that’s affecting more and more people of all ages and genders, I would really like to pull this kind of community to Lemmy.

  • spaduf@slrpnk.net
    3·
    9 个月前

    Others have mentioned this but I’d like to specifically emphasize crossposting. It’s really only reasonable to post in the promo subs when you first get started and maybe after a significant change but you can and should continuously crosspost to relevant communities.

    I would also suggest mentioning your community on other parts of the fediverse as the microblogging folks are just as capable of contributing.