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
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    1 year ago

    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.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.
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          1 year ago

          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.

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      1 year ago

      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.