Can you self-promote on r/jellyfin?

Q: Can you self-promote on r/jellyfin?

Self-promotion restricted. Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed. Read 2026-10-05 from the community's own rules.

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Can you promote on r/jellyfin?

Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.

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its rules on Reddit

This is the Reddit space for the Jellyfin Project. For help with Jellyfin, see https://jellyfin.org/contact for contact options. Allowed: Community discussions about Jellyfin and related topics. Discouraged: Help & feature requests (no official support here; use our official spaces: https://jellyfin.org/contact). Disallowed: Anything that is against our community standards: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/community-standards/.

What its rules say about promotion

No advertising
Do not make posts advertising sale of any Jellyfin services such as (and not limited to) shared servers, help, or development. This rule does not mean that posts about paid packages or "merch" are banned but feel free to report them so they can be evaluated on a case by case basis. See our Community Standards for full details: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/community-standards.html

All 4 rules of r/jellyfin

Remember the human
Absolutely NO personal attacks, abusive language, trolling, or bigotry in any form. Offending posts will be removed and repeat offenders will be banned. See our Community Standards for full details: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/community-standards.html
No low quality posts
No shitposting or low-quality no-effort posts. No memes. This sub is for discussing and improving the Jellyfin platform and helping your fellow users. This extends to incoherent posting, including ChatGPT output - while Jellyfin is a global project with speakers of many languages, English is our primary working language and your posts should be understandable and on-topic. If your English isn't that good, feel free to also provide it in your native language - someone can hopefully translate!
No piracy/Media Acquesition
NO discussion of piracy, including "how to get media" or anything similar; NO posting of pirated content (including media, cracked proprietary binaries, etc.); NO sharing access to servers. We get it, we're a media server, but we do NOT condone piracy or allow discussion of it here; there are plenty of other places for that. See our Community Standards for full details: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/community-standards.html
No advertising
Do not make posts advertising sale of any Jellyfin services such as (and not limited to) shared servers, help, or development. This rule does not mean that posts about paid packages or "merch" are banned but feel free to report them so they can be evaluated on a case by case basis. See our Community Standards for full details: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/community-standards.html

What the written rules don't show

Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.

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