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Musical self-promotion on Lemmy? (startrek.website)
submitted 18 hours ago by swab148@startrek.website to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Hello Lemmings! For the past year or so, I've been working on a solo project, and I'm kinda close to being finished with it! It's a punk rock album, made with mostly open-source tools (the only non-FOSS stuff is a couple of plugins that didn't have good open-source alternatives)!

I've seen other folks promote their games here, but so far I haven't seen any music done this way, and I was wondering if it's maybe not allowed? Some sort of Lemmy faux pas? If it is, indeed, allowed, then what communities would be amenable to maybe a twice weekly post? Should one make their own community for this purpose? What about a general purpose community for self-promotion, i.e. "imadethis" back on the old place? As you can see, much to consider. (I don't have anything out yet, so this post in itself is not self-promotion.)

What say ye, o wise Lemmings?

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[โ€“] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

some good comments here, I'd just add two things:

  • be genuine in your posts
  • don't post to lots of communities at the same time - I will ban posters if I see 3 or more posts landing on my instance

But other than than I hope to see you OC sometime

[โ€“] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

3 or more posts

Alright, but what if my music is applicable to more than one community? Like, it's a punk album, so I'll probably post it on the music communities and the punk communities, as well as the aforementioned !imadethis@lemm.ee. Not trying to spam, but just typing "music" in the search bar brings up five communities where my content would be applicable. Good looking out though, that's why I asked!

[โ€“] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

just take care, lemmy is still small so it is easy to flood a front page