I’m looking for a way that’s appreciated by the community and doesn’t break any rules. I just created one that I think was missing here.

  • PP_GIRL_
    23•6 months ago

    Just a few unobtrusive ways to organically advertise a community:

    • Mention it in adjacent communities.

    • Cross-post posts from it onto related pages and be sure to watermark OC and link to the original post.

    • Link to the community on other social media pages.

    • Engage with every post and comment your community receives. People will be more likely to return to a community where they think they’ll get interaction and feedback for their engagement.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•6 months ago

      Great answer … came to say the same!

      Reposting with better formatting though (no blank lines in between bullet points)

      • Mention it in adjacent communities.
      • Cross-post posts from it onto related pages and be sure to watermark OC and link to the original post.
      • Link to the community on other social media pages.
      • Engage with every post and comment your community receives. People will be more likely to return to a community where they think they’ll get interaction and feedback for their engagement.
      • @brbposting
        5•6 months ago

        I appreciated the white space (using Voyager iOS) FWIW

        • @[email protected]English
          3•6 months ago

          In the web interface the white spaces disappear and destroy the bullet points, which is not what you see I presume and objectively worse. Interesting that the apps are using different markdown parsers, which is dangerous given that each have their idiosyncrasies.

          • @brbposting
            3•6 months ago

            Oh that’s no good!

            Should post this to a Fediverse community… maybe there’s already a thread.

            • @[email protected]English
              3•6 months ago

              I mean Voyager should just use the same markdown processor as lemmy does. I don’t know how jerboa (the official mobile app made by the lead devs). But something similar should probably be done.

              • @brbposting
                3•6 months ago

                Ah so it’s a Voyager inconsistency then. In a way it’s appreciated behavior but problematic as well.

                Also I posted this from Voyager - web displays &, Voyager iOS displays & without the amp;. Another case for using the same processor sounds like!

                Edited to try to correct escaped text, but I can’t remove the amp-semicolon after the ampersand symbol in the second escaped section

          • @[email protected]
            2•6 months ago

            As someone who used to do web dev & design, I’d die and go to heaven if any two environments managed to render with a passing resemblance between them (especially between environment type – web, mobile, pc, refrigerator).
            That sounds like a good candidate for an open source library, if it isn’t already, right? Standardise more things?

            • @[email protected]English
              1•6 months ago

              Well lemmy is using a package to process markdown that is OSS as far as I know, so it should be possible to bundle that with any app.