I’m one of the r/futurology mods, and involved in setting up our new Lemmy instance - https://futurology.today
While we don’t want to spam our user base, we’d still like the site to do well and promote it. We’ve 19 million subscribers, and by far the most traffic we get is the top posts that get on people’s front page or r/all. We’ve sometimes used stickied comments in these posts, but I’m 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.?
Here’s our onboarding announcement.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/15wi75l/rfuturology_is_now_in_the_fediverse_at/
Certainly something in your sidebar. Then, I know /r/askhistorians doesn’t 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 there’s a reasonable chance to tell them where else has content, some number will respond. I’d say y’all are fairly well equipped to draw in people if you think the Fediverse is THE FUTURE.
I’m hoping opportunities will happen organically, e.g. users will be cross-posting & cross-linking.