I’ve discovered Lemmy quite recently and I’m still learning how it works. One of the things I don’t get is how small communities can become known? On the main page I can only see communities that I’ve already subscribed to. I can also see popular posts on this instance. But how post in a community can become popular if no one has already joined it?
I’m not sure this is actually necessary. I found that a single post of a moderately-interesting community to !newcommunities@lemmy.world wound up federating my stuff to all the main instances instantly.
I get the concept, and maybe depending on the details of the network it might be needed (it might be a good approach on Mastodon for example, which has a much harder chicken-and-egg problem in terms of getting your stuff federated). I’m not sure it’s doing any active harm or anything. But at the same time I do feel like importing this kind of “not enough people are seeing my stuff how can I make sure as many people as possible see my stuff” tools over from the SEO marketer’s toolkit might be a bad habit or pattern to get into.