r/otomegames has it so advertisements for other communities are all relegated to a Self-Promotion Sunday thread that nobody looks at.

I did reach out to the mods to ask if they'd be willing to do anything for this, they're not interested on moderating off of Reddit or putting this in the sidebar, so very slow organic growth it is...

I do exist on otome Discords and I talk there way more than I self-promote, but I have promoted this there and I don't think anyone has bitten yet. ;-;

I actually don't remember what taught me about Lemmy and Kbin's existence. I know it was over the API exodus, but not sure if it was a news article or a Reddit thread. It definitely wasn't someone DMing me to join, I would have taken that as spammy and annoyingly promotional and rejected it instantly. Bringing this up because if we want to grow the Fediverse it's probably worth thinking about what got us to move, and what let us even know it was an option.