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c/asklemmy · by LemmyHead@lemmy.ml · 2y

What do you think is a proper way to advertise a community on Lemmy?

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.

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willya@lemmyf.uk · 41 pts · 2y

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Also !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

maegul@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thanks. Didn’t know about these. Very glad they exist!

otter@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

There was a pinned post on communitypromo with a guide on finding communities but I think I lost it. I'll pin it again once I find it 😄

rufus@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2y

!communityspotlight@lemmy.world

would be another one.

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y (11 replies)

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@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y (10 replies)

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.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y (9 replies)

I appreciated the white space (using Voyager iOS) FWIW

maegul@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y (8 replies)

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.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Oh that’s no good!

Should post this to a Fediverse community… maybe there’s already a thread.

maegul@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I mean Voyager should just use the same markdown processor as lemmy does. I don’t know how jerboa (the official mobile app made by the lead devs). But something similar should probably be done.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Ah so it’s a Voyager inconsistency then. In a way it’s appreciated behavior but problematic as well.

Also I posted this from Voyager - web displays &, Voyager iOS displays & without the amp;. Another case for using the same processor sounds like!

Edited to try to correct escaped text, but I can’t remove the amp-semicolon after the ampersand symbol in the second escaped section

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Created a thread!

maegul@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Nice!!

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

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.

Floufym@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

So now I am curious. What is this community that was missing ?

LemmyHead@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

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.

YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

In the Pornhub comments is not suggested.

spaduf@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y

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.

F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Don’t. I mean a lot of people came here to escape advertising.

unreachable@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

Misread. My apologies.

mateomaui@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y

Advertising a lemmy community. Not advertising in general.