this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Community Promo

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Promote your favourite communities and groups!

This includes communities on Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, NodeBB, Matrix, Signal, etc.



🗣️ Tips for promoting a community:


While you can still ask about communities that you are looking for, we recommend that you:



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  1. Reposts: Outside of major community changes (ex. events, new management), please limit posts about about a particular community to 1 post / month

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I mod some of these communities on other instances but wanted to provide decentralized alternatives, since that’s the whole point of Lemmy, and explore admining since I enjoy selfhosting :)

Very niche communities but I welcome anyone to join and post.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be careful with this approach. It's great you're excited, but I was in that boat. When the reddit exodus started everyone made a community for every niche, but then there was not enough to keep them going. So communities petered out one by one

I've found it's better to focus your efforts on a couple of communities and get them going vs spreading out.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I agree. I popped over to take a look and there was only one post, for the two that most appeal to me. Not very inviting for subscribers.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just made them, that’s why I’m sharing! :)

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's only the first and easiest step, you'll probably be the only one posting to most of them for a good while the community starts up. That can be months, years even. Only now do I think my little communities are starting to gain traction, and thats after years of work and posting regularly by myself.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but make sure you're posting... a lot