this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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New Communities
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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.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Isn't there already [email protected] ?
I'm thinking that things are getting to the point of maturity that it'd make sense to have a general rule about this.
Something like:
- You're expected to do a little research to see if your new community is very closely aligned with an existing one, and if so, provide at least some statement as to why you're making yours or what's different about it.
It's not to prevent people from making their own communities at all, it's just that it actually helps clarify the promotion of a new community while also helping the community ecosystem.
From what I can tell, [email protected] has a fairly rigid set of rules, with a specific distinction made between guides and infographics. That's great, I like when moderators take an active role in curating the content of their communities.
But I would guess that [email protected] is possibly a response to those rules. Basically if your post got removed from the lemmy.ca community because it was technically an infographic, you could post it to sopuli.xyz community instead.
That's my understanding of the ecosystem, without having spoken to any of the people involved.
Their last post is a quite informal infographic posted by a mod, so I wouldn't worry too much