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.
[This link will fetch CommunityName to your instance](/search?q=!communityname%40instance&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll)
Changecommunityname
with community name, andinstance
with instance link (without https://). It will direct people to search for your community on their own instance. For Lemmy <0.17.4. see the footnote [1] - Post it to meta/main community of your instance: for example !meta@sopuli.xyz
- 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
Limitations
- alternative and mobile clients may or may not parse those links correctly so be sure to provide a native link as well
Good luck!
- Wistful ( @Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de ) English3•2 years ago
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
communityname
with community name, andinstance
with 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 🤗
- Ledditor ( @ledditor@leddit.minnal.icu ) English2•2 years ago
Nice tip! Thanks…
- erAck ( @erAck@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•2 years ago
Did that and got a comment that “on jerboa it does nothing at all” so best additionally also provide the direct instance community link.
oh yeah, that’s a good point!
Indeed internal links redirect in mobile apps aren’t implemented the same way as on the web version. I guess that’s why Jerboa is marked to be “alpha” version. I’ll adjust the guide to reflect that, thanks again