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Probably dumb question about self promotion (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 days ago by AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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Ok, so I am a U.S. researcher who has ended up here bc of censorship issues on other platforms.

I understand why rules for no self promotion exist in general, but typically I would consider that to be things like promoting a business or anything with a paywall or with the goal to get more attention for self vs the goal to spread information that is being suppressed.

I started writing a blog on ghost and putting some information together to raise awareness about science and other policy disinformation. Would sharing the information or graphics from the blog still be self promotion since it's my own blog

If it is self promotion, are there any good communities where this kind of things is ok to share?

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You should share posts, graphics and media from your blog to the communities you think would be relevant to the people visiting there.

You'd take flak if you try to share your blog in Generic communities, because just trying to get eyeballs on it in that way is inappropriate self-promotion. But if you post on a relevant community, especially in a niche one, then users can subscribe to there, and are there because they want to see posts like that (otherwise they can block), and you'll get the occasional visitor from the All feed which is a fine bonus.

The other piece of advice I have is try not to post too much at once else it crowds the Hot feed. An ideal amount if you have a lot to share is a few times a day.

[–] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you! Like I said I'm still figuring things out. The instance I joined says you can't post images until 40 days after joining. Is there an alternative way to do that?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Are you able to hotlink images from your blog or a 3rd party image hosting service?

It's in the format ![optional alt text](URL to image)

Essentially you add an exclamation mark in front of a typical link. Example:

stock photo of an NTSC test pattern

In your posts you can set the link to be of that JPEG or PNG file and will work like a picture post.