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.

Steps to make a successful reddit post:

1. Don’t have a sus account
2. Make it a image post with a nice catching image (Most important)
3. 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:

1. https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1711535/post-with-5k-views-in-1h-promoting-the-fediverse
2. https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge/p/1727090/post-promoting-the-fedrivers-on-r-degoogle-on-globalswitchday
3. 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.