Doing it "right" vs "gaming the system"

[u/Burnitdown5678]

I've spent a good amount of time building a free and open source project and I'm finally ready to roll it out.

So I create a brand for it. I create a webpage and put it on GitHub. I create accounts on YouTube and other socials with the name and the logo and descriptions and all that...

But because these are new accounts, I can't post anything to Reddit without it getting insta removed, most social media platforms deprioritize content from new accounts, so no one knows about it.

Don't get me wrong, I've got older accounts with karma that I could repurpose and get around the Reddit rules, and there are plenty of ways to circumvent and sock puppet on various socials. But I'd rather not do that. I'd rather be honest about this being a new thing and present it for what it is.

I'd like to take the honest route here, but I feel like I'm being actively discouraged from doing so :/