As you probably know from the sidebar this site was started by moderators from
the r/futurology subreddit, and some of us moderate both. We initially thought
most of the site’s growth would come via Reddit, but it hasn’t happened that
way. Our main instance - c/futurology - gets most of its subscribers from
elsewhere in the fediverse. Despite several attempts with pinned posts that a
few thousand people have read, hardly anyone joined from Reddit. We don’t want
to spam the subreddit user base, but we have access to things like pinned posts
and comments to promote this site. We’d like to grow subscriber numbers for here
from Reddit. Any ideas as to how to do this more successfully than we have
previously?