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What do you think is a proper way to advertise a community on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by LemmyHead@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciated the white space (using Voyager iOS) FWIW

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that’s no good!

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

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

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.