I assume !newcommunities@lemmy.world is for just that, and promoting new instances is unacceptable there. Where is an appropriate place to advertise a new instance?
Asking for one that is not my own. Decentralization is cool and I literally just found out about the existence of https://fanaticus.social/, a sports instance, from checking the !olympics@sh.itjust.works sidebar. I’d like to help this sports instance get attention and bolster its existing communities. I don’t know where to go besides finding big preexisting sports communities and mentioning its existence there.
!communitypromo@lemmy.ca is also intended for this purpose. You can promote any community or instance at any point, as long as you don’t promote it too often :)
I think it’s okay to promote instance on !newcommunities@lemmy.world, especially if they are thematic as fanaticus.social
I am a bit confused. Why not just promote the communities in the instance?
There’s a lot. I do not want to spam !newcommunities@lemmy.world, and they’re also not new, although I know not-new-but-still-small communities have been allowed to get posted before. Now that you mention it, I could probably just make a few posts or one giant post listing related communities together…
@Elevator7009@kbin.run
@rglullis@communick.news
I can see why the confusion. I mean it called it new on the post but then in this coment you say they are also not new.
Alright. I actually have no idea as to the age of the instance, but I am pretty sure it is new to most people on the Fediverse. I would also like to know the protocol for promoting communities in general, although at the time when I typed this I was thinking “new in age”. I never should have put the word “new” in my post. Sorry.