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How do you promote communities on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've discovered Lemmy quite recently and I'm still learning how it works. One of the things I don't get is how small communities can become known? On the main page I can only see communities that I've already subscribed to. I can also see popular posts on this instance. But how post in a community can become popular if no one has already joined it?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I’m not sure this is actually necessary. I found that a single post of a moderately-interesting community to [email protected] wound up federating my stuff to all the main instances instantly.

I get the concept, and maybe depending on the details of the network it might be needed (it might be a good approach on Mastodon for example, which has a much harder chicken-and-egg problem in terms of getting your stuff federated). I’m not sure it’s doing any active harm or anything. But at the same time I do feel like importing this kind of “not enough people are seeing my stuff how can I make sure as many people as possible see my stuff” tools over from the SEO marketer’s toolkit might be a bad habit or pattern to get into.