this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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I migrated from Reddit and I created a few community (based on niche subs) that aren't yet on Lemmy. What is the proper way to let people know they exist? I don't intend to spam like people do sometimes on Reddit.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

There's a community called "New [email protected]", post your community there and you should get some people to join.

[โ€“] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[email protected] for a proper link accessible from any instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This is exactly how I found the last few communities I joined. Great resource

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Maybe try telling the subreddits you migrated from

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

If you can find something to legitimately cross-post to or from, that's one way for users of a bigger community to see you exist

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Post, plug (wherever relevant), crosspost.

Here's a demonstration of the second step (nsfw): [email protected]