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.

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    10 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.

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      10 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.
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          10 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.

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            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?

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              10 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.