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How do you promote communities on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by vermaterc@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I've discovered Lemmy quite recently and I'm still learning how it works. One of the things I don't get is how small communities can become known? On the main page I can only see communities that I've already subscribed to. I can also see popular posts on this instance. But how post in a community can become popular if no one has already joined it?

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[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 points 3 days ago

If a server has a bot set up on lemmy federate, the server is automatically loading posts for the community. Especially handy for smaller instances where none of the users on there have noticed the post, or have subscribed.

Since lemmy is still relatively small, a lot of people don't subscribe, and instead use the all feed, and maybe even block communities that don't interest them.