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Can you please give me some tips on how to grow and popularize a Lemmy community? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by sisyphean@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I’m a moderator of a smaller community. I’m posting quality content multiple times a day, and I posted about it in New Communities. The number of subscribers is low but it’s growing steadily.

Could you please give me some advice on growing this community? I don’t want to spam/flood or come off as rude or weird, but I really believe in it and think it would be useful to many people.

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[–] linh@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excuse me but may I ask why posts of my community don't show up on other instances? I made accounts on other instances to manually search it myself, it is discoverable on those instances. However new posts are not.

Edit: Nvm it starts showing up now

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you have at least one sub from that instance (yourself?) if you do, posts should immediately appear in "all" on any connected instances.

There is a bug, where if you mod someone on an outside instance, and they edit anything about the community, it will break federation. I made this mistake with !fitmoe@lemmy.world and had to talk to the instance admin to have it resolved.

[–] linh@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh right the instances that I subbed got new posts while the one I didn't sub is still empty. No modding involved tho.