If you created a sub, by default not a single person get notified about it: it can only be seen in the communities list of your instance. But don’t worry it’s pretty easy to change it
How to get people see your community
- Write good description of what it is about, what is going to be posted, what’s to be expected
- Craft instance agnostic link to it. Replace “!sub-name@instance” for yours in this link (see the footnote for Lemmy 0.18+)[1]
[Search to federate this sub to your instance](/search/q/!sub-name@instance/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1). It will direct people to search for your community on their own instance. - Post it to meta/main community of your instance: for example [email protected]
- Also post it to lemmyverse community-promo sub
- Start posting!
That’s it, by reposting it just twice you dramatically increase discoverability of your community. Of course you may find additional community-promo subs but posting in at least these basic two is a good start
Good luck!
Lemmy 0.18.0.
[This link will fetch CommunityName to your instance](/search?q=!communityname%40instance&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll)Changecommunitynamewith community name, andinstancewith instance link (without https://) ↩︎
It changed a little bit with Lemmy 0.18.0.
[This link will fetch CommunityName to your instance](/search?q=!communityname%40instance&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll)Change
communitynamewith community name, andinstancewith instance link (without https://)
Example:
[This link will fetch LemmyTips to your instance](/search?q=!lemmytips%40discuss.tchncs.de&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll)You’re a gem, thank you for updating the post 🤗
Did that and got a comment that “on jerboa it does nothing at all” so best additionally also provide the direct instance community link.
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Nice tip! Thanks…
