Hello guys! New here. I’m coming in peace from a friendly polish instance - fedit.pl. Actually I was contacted by Alice (I believe?) on one of subreddits, had a very nice chat and figured that this instance has to be quite cool. A question for starters - you are not federated - why? If you don’t want to federate with all that crap out there, you can just put a few friendly instances on your whitelist in admin options (assuming they also have only friendly whitelisted instances).

  • AliceMAEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Man. So I freaking copied and pasted an invite message and blasted it to a bunch of people on Reddit on my OTHER account, and they Banned that account for spamming for 3 days.

    Can’t do that anymore.

    So I invite ppl from my main account. People who are a perfect fit. But I screen shot the post or comment I found them on on reddit to give him reference, and I personalize each message.

    Nothing complicated. I just word it differently or add some information. To differentiate all my invite messages. Closing with, “if you’re not interested just ignore the message and have a good day”

    And I haven’t had an issue. So that’s crazy you’re having to deal with that.

    You can also direct message invite polish people from other lemmy instances I’m sure ppl would be interested. I just personally would use that account only for inviting privately, don’t upvote, down vote, or comment on any posts.

    Admins Are children. You might not have my experience, but they delete every comment where I suggest joining our Instance. Like immediately too lol

    You can also post about your instance on reddit in the lemmy sub. But don’t post your url. State in the post to private message you for the url address.

    Also lurk the reddit alternative sub for good matches

    • feditplOPEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Great advices thanks! So you need to be organic, not look like a bot. Obviously, but on the other hand it takes time unfortunately.

      • AliceMAEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        Yea I know I understand. They don’t have to be long.

        Just pretend like you’re inviting them somewhere cool because you think you their cool for X reason. Like you’re hitting up a friend to join you at a concert.