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).
" I have turned off fetching images from 3rd party sites too" - You mean that external links don’t come with images? Only text? Where is that option available?
Great, thanks. I also added yours to mine, but cannot search any community. Can you check if your instance finds any of mine? For example https://fedit.pl/c/fediwersum@fedit.pl
Yeah, attracting users is painful. I actually did that with reddit api and private messages but reddit found out and i’m on their blacklist. I’m pretty sure they put a filter on messages with name of my instance. I can see my message sent, but I don’t see it in receiver. Basically shadowremoving messages. I’m taking every possible privacy measure (vpn, tor, new account) but it’s not working. It’s wild. I would now have to use some enigma shit to safely write them. Name of my instance is totally burnt on reddit. Had I knew reddit is so crazy about this I would have acted more carefully from the beginning. These messages can work, but you have to be careful.
Other than that, posting here and there on other social media, and creating original content. Don’t really see any other options.
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
Great advices thanks! So you need to be organic, not look like a bot. Obviously, but on the other hand it takes time unfortunately.
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.
It’s now a config setting in lemmy.hjson , under the pictrs block:
cache_external_link_previews: falseIt does work, but this is the correct URL for it to fetch it: https://fedit.pl/c/fediwersum
That’s fucked up, yeah Reddit goes hard on snuffing that out, not sure how Alice pulled it off but I think she got in some trouble too. Finding content people is really hard, we’re very lucky to have a few here, Alice herself being quite prolific.
Thank you I try ! I want a big family here lol
🙌 you and me both!
Yay ! 🙌
Are you sure you have federation turned on?
ok it works now.