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The Small Website Discoverability Crisis (www.marginalia.nu)
submitted 16 hours ago by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: link to sites. link to communities. don't just post content, but more importantly make people aware that the community exists.

if you post 10 articles but nobody knows that the community exists, that's worth less than if you only post 5 articles but 3 people read them.

link to communities that interest you in places where people might want to know about them. sticker some link on your irl shared gardening project. maybe to slrpnk.net or sth. Sticker the links to 3 tinkering/DIY communities on your local bike repair shop.

Links are as important as streets are to traffic. They get us from A to B. don't underbuild them.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

There was someone a while ago who was trying to get a web ring going for like nerd stuff. They said so many of their friends and people they talked to loved the idea, but no one made a site of their own.

I posted it in a local community group, and everyone said the same thing.

[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago

Alright, I'm in. I've been looking for something to host on my domain root. New weekend project!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 15 hours ago

yeah making content is a lot of work. i can't blame them.