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https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities Is probably a good start to advertise it initially.
Also be prepared to work on the community for a long time. Think of it like tending to a garden. Lemmy is still pretty new as a platform but it is obviously growing. Some niche topics are less popular and will take even more time to grow compared to other topics. If you're willing to continue posting and keep the community productive eventually more people are going to join.
Apart from all the good Lemmy suggestions, right now I think is a good moment to mention it on Reddit posts in related communities, especially in response to people complaining about the current way Reddit is going.
I‘ve come here from when various shit got deleted/banned off r/piracy and people in the comments mentioned the piracy Lemmy.
There’s a community for new communities on Lemmy.world. That’s a great place to share the word about any new communities created recently!
The community is literally called “New Communities”.
You could start by telling people the name of your community?
like how do i just randomly start putting it out there?
Share links to it in other posts, Add the name to this thread might help. Boot strapping a community is hard, but for starters you have to tell people that it exists.
Make many posts and wait for more people to join.
I think it's hard now that there are so many popular instances already. Probably need to create some special interest instance or a lot of friends to join it to get things started.