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Thatβs a good question actually. there is !newcommunities@lemmy.world for communities, maybe you can reach out to them to see if you can also promote your server?
Not sure how instances are advertised on https://join-lemmy.org/instances
However advertising new instances on a community may not be a very good plan.
The issue is in order to find your post on that community, someone would have to be subscribed on another instance, but that would mean that a new user would see that post (by some random magic because it will get 100% buried by the other content) by already being in an instance.
So why would the new user look at your post, click on the link and create an account your instance inseatd of just creating one on the instance where they got first?
For the users already with an account on an instance, i donβt really know if it would really have traction. It would be like competing against the already existing instance + account switch or multi account use. (also same issue for the buried post maybe, tho if someone really wants to search for instances he could just go and look at that community).
So posting in a community may help slightly, but because itβs not like a community where people subscribe for content, it may have a very limited reach.
If someone is looking for a new home: waste-of.space.
Feel welcome.
Do you guys have free beer
Nope. We are just wasting space.
I discovered the instance Iβm on now through a post on !fediverse@lemmy.world
One way is to use it and be active across the Fediverse. People might take interest in you and check out your instance. Are you opening a general purpose instance or something more specialized?
It may fit the criteria for:
!specialized_instances@kbin.social
Prob one of few instances Iβd still advise post to reddit, since there are people there who havenβt moved over. While most the people here have already settled into a home instance.
I actually found my home instance bc a guy was advertising it on r/lemmy
r/RedditAlternatives is another one that might be worth mentioning instances on.
Iβd love to know too
I see the problem as, most people on Lemmy are already signed up to an instance that they are happy with. If the instance offers something to really differentiate itself, such as a focus on certain types of communities, or different types of rules or moderation than most other instances, then it might have a chance at catching on. But otherwise, I feel like it would be very hard to promote an instance if its 95% the same as all the other instances.
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