this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What’s the best time to post?

[–] IronSightOS 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I made this post 😁 but it's a guess based on my experience. I don't know if there's a way to see stats of when most people are on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thanks! What time zone is this? It doesn’t seem to specify.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Should be yours. It updates live, so it's always the last 24 hours no matter what that is.

You can edit the time range, too, if you like, or show just the stats of a certain instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Probably when Europe / US are still awake

[–] Lost_My_Mind 5 points 1 month ago

Thats great! I'm not personally interested in the topic, but I do love me some fediverse growth!

Now you need to make sure you have regular content. Good luck!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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!

[–] Alphane_Moon 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

Lemmyworld is still on 0.19.3

[–] Alphane_Moon 3 points 1 month 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] IronSightOS 2 points 1 month ago

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