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I feel to maximize growth:

  • Post daily at a time when most people are on Lemmy.
  • Always try to include an interesting picture with the post. If you're sharing a URL, sometimes a thumbnail doesn't show or is uninteresting. In these cases, find a better picture and use that and move the URL to the body of the post.
  • Shamelessly plug the community every chance you get. Speaking of which, [email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Always try to include an interesting picture with the post. If you're sharing a URL, sometimes a thumbnail doesn't show or is uninteresting. In these cases, find a better picture and use that and move the URL to the body of the post.

In my app, you can add an alternate picture that will replace the url picture. Can you do that on other platforms?

Edit: oh yeah, also great post! Thanks for doing your part!

[โ€“] Alphane_Moon 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this possible to do on the webUI?

A lot of sites aren't properly scrapped for the heading image, but I can't seem to set a custom one when using the default webUI.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's possible on the web ui site version 0.19.4.

Lemmyworld is still on 0.19.3

[โ€“] Alphane_Moon 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting.

Looking forward to the update, this is a much needed feature if you post a lot, since image scrapping simply doesn't work.

Cheers!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If that's urgent for you, you might consider opening an account on lemm.ee or lemmy.zip, both on 0.19.5

Lemmyworld are planning to wait until 0.19.6 which isn't going to be released any time soon

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suggest it anyway since .world is the default instance and, last I checked, too bloated.

[โ€“] IronSightOS 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe there's a way and I haven't figured it out :) Thank you for your encouraging words!!