How to Sucesfully post about PieFed on Reddit
Recently we’ve seen a spike in PieFed users, a lot of this came form raising awareness of PieFed’s existence on Reddit.
Here’s some info you’d need if you want to help raise awareness of PieFed on reddit.
Reddit uses AI to make a summary of a users behavior that it shows to mods, and will flag people who seem spammy eg.
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Steps to make a successful reddit post:
- Don’t have a sus account
- Make it a image post with a nice catching image (Most important)
- Don’t include any links away from reddit in the post, don’t even add it to the comments (have others do that)
Sucesfull posts examples:
- https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1711535/post-with-5k-views-in-1h-promoting-the-fediverse
- https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1727090/post-promoting-the-fedrivers-on-r-degoogle-on-globalswitchday
- https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow/p/1720677/post-mentioning-piefed-ca-in-r-buycanadian
These 3 posts got ~500,000 views between them
- Don’t go and spam reddit with low effort content. It can do more harm than good.
- Don’t post to the same sub more than once a month
- Don’t post links in the comments of your own post unless it’s already gone viral, instead let others post links or let people figure it out for themselves.
I’ve tried to promote Lemmy in the past, but Immediately I get comments of people complaining about the UI, UX and tankies which kills all momentum. I’ve had much better success with PieFed so sticking to that going forward.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 17 hours ago
Well done on gaining that much traction. Its pretty hard to get people to actually leave site and look at the alternatives. Also that AI summary is so depressing, reddit is really going to boil and entire person down to a sentence.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Here are some more examples, it’s quite interesting
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MrNobody@quokk.au 15 hours ago
Oh boy, I did not know reddit had gotten that bad.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
Why is that one about the WarEra user green?
odelik@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Oh the PROFANITY!