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Waylon Walker

Any tips on reddit? I know nothing about it. I've tried to post there and go no engagement. Next time I tried to post I didn't even have enough karma.

I think they are all what you make of them. They definitely have their own quirks, but it seems that to build a community and engagement you need to be engaged and put the work in.

The DEV community has been the best to me as well 😉

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rderik

It'll depend on the subreddit. For example, I write mostly on topics related to Swift. The Swift subreddit allows you to write posts, there are some subreddits that only let you share links (you can later add some description in a comment), so you will have to adapt. I tend to write a an excerpt of the post and give the key concept, and post the link to my full article on my site for anyone really interested.

If you look at the number of upvotes you might get tricked into thinking that it doesn't have much impact, but check your site statistics and it might tell a different story. And also a lot of people don't like to interact in public but they do read your content. Reddit has such a big number of users you get more exposure.

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Waylon Walker

Thanks for the tips, those are really helpful for those of us yet to understand reddit.