New Communities
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/[email protected])
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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So, not that parallel communities are at all bad, I feel like it's warranted to ask why this community when we've already got the dedicated startrek instance and its communities: https://startrek.website/, such as [email protected] and [email protected]?
At this point in the growth of lemmy, I feel like unneeded duplication without any reason doesn't really help things. Should a community die we can always start new ones where ever we want. But splitting things and making it harder for users to navigate the space probably isn't a good idea unless there's something you want to achieve with this community?
It might have something to do with no longer being able to participate: https://startrek.website/modlog?page=1&userId=162731
Oh the banned me already. On par with that community. Don't worry, they will ban thousands more in the coming weeks.
Welcome to the club
As soon as I realized it was the reddit mods I knew there would be a need for an alternative community. This isn't reddit where they can ban rivals communities.