Probably dumb question about self promotion
Probably dumb question about self promotion
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?
I can't speak for everyone, but if your blogpost are on topic for a given community, I would take a less strict approach to any no self promotion rules.
I guess on a broad topic level the closest would be public health, but it's been so misrepresented it's also become an issue of politics and privatization of public information
You can crosspost this post to [email protected] and see how mods there react
There are definitely political communities for US and Europe (continent and individual nations) where such content would be welcome, with the exception of sya posting US internal stuff into a Europe community.
News and World News communities would also be open to this type of content (public health policy and associated topics).
No such thing as a dumb question regarding rules. I know I'm not answering your question, but really, ask these kind of questions. They improve the written rules.
Are you talking about some community-specific or an instance-wide rule? Which community/instance? You should probably ask the mods/admins directly.
I guess it would be community specific. Just looking around for places to share stuff, but it seems like it fits in many ways with the topic of the community but also includes aspects that might be in violation of the rules.
I will try just asking individual communities
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.
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?
Are you able to hotlink images from your blog or a 3rd party image hosting service?
It's in the format
Essentially you add an exclamation mark in front of a typical link. Example:
In your posts you can set the link to be of that JPEG or PNG file and will work like a picture post.
There's totally a space for that kind of thing around here. Hell, you could even make your own community specifically for it if you're so inclined.
Were you looking at a specific community?
I am still learning how to navigate everything but I guess mainly community based? I really would like to share literally anywhere I could that would be interested in learning about the information.
Basically I guess it would be most closely a topic of public health policy being greatly misrepresented.
Mastodon might also be a good place for promoting your blog though over there you kind of have to first make a name for yourself to get found, as far as I understand.