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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 for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned 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:

[email protected]

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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Rules are still evolving, but right now I'm just aiming for a community for civil discourse ...if such a thing is possible in politics. [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

LW's demographic is too close to the average Redditor. If you want to have an honest attempt at a community that is not going to be taken over by immature Americans in their twenties who will do nothing but yell at each other: please consider creating the community outside of lemmy.world.

Use a more neutral instance (I'd recommend https://discuss.online) and be more strict about standards of quality discussion. Then you might have something interesting. Otherwise you will just end up with yet-another cesspool.

[–] laverabe 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

thank you... I will consider that if this doesn't go anywhere. Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade... it use to be a reasonable place for discussion. I would have thought though that most people that migrated here from Reddit would be slightly more mature since they understand the evil of corporate greed but it seems like lately it's 50/50 on comments now whether you're going to get personally insulted for blinking wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade

It's not just Reddit. Civic debate has completely deteriorated with the rise of Social Media. It amplified everyone's voices to the point that left drowning in a sea of noise.