Iām one of the r/futurology mods, and involved in setting up our new Lemmy instance - https://futurology.today
While we donāt want to spam our user base, weād still like the site to do well and promote it. Weāve 19 million subscribers, and by far the most traffic we get is the top posts that get on peopleās front page or r/all. Weāve sometimes used stickied comments in these posts, but Iām wary of doing that, as many users might perceive it as spam.
Any advice for promoting our site, bearing in mind 95%+ of eyeballs go to these top posts.?
Hereās our onboarding announcement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/
Tracking the lastest news and numbers about the #RedditMigration to open, Fediverse-based alternatives, including #Kbin and #Lemmy To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/
subbed thanks
Yaaaay a new community to sub to š
Thereās an instance admin community that should be able to help out with technical issues !lemmy_admin@lemmy.ml
Thereās a matrix groupchat with most of the big instance admins as members, but I donāt know a lot about it tbh. Also would recommend letting people know your subreddit is trying lemmy at !reddit@lemmy.world , and thereās another specifically for people announcing new communities but sadly canāt recall the name at the moment
I havenāt had a look at your sidebar yet, but add rules for bots and the such as you wish - here the frequently seen ones are autotldr and pipedvideobot. There is also communitylinkfixer but I havenāt seen it in a while.
No idea of the best way to promote it on Reddit, aside from popping a link in your sidebar over there? May be worth checking out the reddit communities for the three major instances that have migrated most of their users from reddit - lemmy.one (PrivacyGuides), programming.dev (Programming), and lemmy.dbzer0.com (Piracy)
Certainly something in your sidebar. Then, I know /r/askhistorians doesnāt spam their podcast, but the mods are very quick to plug it when relevant, so keep an eye out for opportunities. Finally, just be sensible. Most people who are still on Reddit (I still lurk my niche communities) just want content. If thereās a reasonable chance to tell them where else has content, some number will respond. Iād say yāall are fairly well equipped to draw in people if you think the Fediverse is THE FUTURE.
Can a smart person hook it up with a link thatāll let me subscribe to this via kbin?
For the main community: https://kbin.social/m/futurology@futurology.today
Maybe at the end of each post add āCross-posted at https://kbin.social/m/futurology@futurology.todayā and the Lemmy equivalent?
Welcome, welcome, welcome from a lemmy user! Thanks for coming over here! A new sub from me!