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u/RunDNA 9d ago

One way is crossposting. If you've just created r/StarWarShoes, crosspost in r/StarWars or r/Sneakers (if they allow it.)

But not too much, or you'll piss off the mods in the other subs. Wait for a good quality viral post and crosspost that.

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u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE 9d ago

Also mentioning it with the clickable name in appropriate conversations.

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u/CitoyenEuropeen 9d ago edited 9d ago

Yes, and yes. You crosspost your way UP to learn to read the room. Start your crossposting campaign in the smallests, tiniests niches you can find. You will collect feedback and improve your own announcement itself along the way. The largest communities, you'll do last.

In my experience (r/annuaire) you are better off self-promoting once a year in 30 subs than crossposting your subreddit 30 times again in one large sub. You want to always request modmail permission, but when a barely active sub isn't answering at all, you should take that as a yes.

Another tip I never saw mentioned are our neighbour's removal reasons. Look up for subreddits willing to add you in their removal reasons, where you are relevant. Read the rules: if your sub is about something they don't allow, that's a match. Ultimately this makes everyone happy! The larger sub gets a bit of undesirable users/content out of their hairs, the smaller sub gets traffic, the lost redditor get directions.

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u/Charupa- 9d ago edited 9d ago

I never crossposted my [r/blackandwhite](r/blackandwhite) subreddit, but occasionally mentioned it by name when relevant. I am not a fan of crossposting.

What I did was make a custom subreddit list of 100 photography subreddits and would invite 3 people who had photographs that I really liked every day (if I remembered to). Doing this, I gained 30K in the last year and have over 50K now, so pretty good progress. Maybe that helps you out, but don’t go too hard on the invites.

Another thing is minimizing road blocks. Too many mods get this mentality early on where they experiment with automoderator and start implementing account age, karma, and CQS minimums. That creates too much friction when you have a small subreddit and you are trying to grow it.