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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:

[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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Asking as there has been a few comments mentioning this with the new [email protected] taking over [email protected]

[email protected] for additional context on those recent events if you are interested

Also, an older post for more context on how lemmy.ml is managed: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

Curious to hear other thoughts about this, as I'm trying to keep [email protected] active, but might suggest to move it elsewhere if a lot of people prefer not to interact with lemmy.ml communities

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don't have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few "tech"-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.

It's all a question of which subset of human stupidity you're willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we're just different in how and where we express it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

but there are quite a few “tech”-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.

Which ones? Lemmy.zip, lemdro.id, programming.dev?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not going to name them. The point of this isn't to expose which instances I dislike, but rather to show that every instance has its fans and its antifans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess there's a difference between not liking an instance, and the mods or admins power tripping and not following their own rules.

Sh.itjust.works for instance seems appreciated by almost everyone, except maybe for their name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

In the case of the "tech"-oriented instances it's actually the user base I find distasteful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay but while everything has its downsides... not equally so.

What if one day you were no longer allowed to discuss Linux? Or Teslas? Or whatever else the admins decided were now forbidden topics? Btw without telling you what those topics are. Also, if you even so much as accidentally mention the names of such, you lose access to the entire Fediverse from your account (on that instance).

It doesn't even matter what topic material the admins of lemmy.ml have decided to block - Russia, China, Ukraine, Uyghurs, Taiwan, North Korea, North Carolina, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, it doesn't matter. What matters is that they have set themselves up as the arbiters of "truth(iness)" and ban anyone from every community across the entire instance, even those they have never even heard of.

And then they dictate those rules - which again, are nowhere written down, plus not all that easy to guess at (let's see... the USA does genocide, but Russia does too? no wait, Russia can do no wrong - that's it! Oh shit, too late, already banned!:-P) - and hold all of the content on every community across the entire instance hostage to those rules.

I came here from Reddit to get away from such. Oopsie, it's here too.

Do whatever you want, ofc :-) I just hope that I explained this position well enough to convey that nuanced take that some actions are worth holding apart from others. This isn't merely a minor inconvenience imho - it's a major breach of the principles that many of us came here to support in the Fediverse, cited as being free and open source, except apparently the set of rules are not open to be read anywhere at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know, before lecturing me you might want to check out which instance I'm coming in from.

I said "I don't have issues with .ml" ... but I'm not coming in from a .ml account. So when I say "I have no issues with .ml" it's in the context of the original question: do I refrain participating if the community is hosted on .ml.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of my sentences there was a hypothetical written as if that were the case yes, but I did note that you were not from there, and the rest pertains to people trying to communicate with communities on that instance. Anyway, do whatever you want - I tried to offer an interesting counterexample but I'm not going to try to brow-beat you with anything. This isn't Reddit - we can leave those modes behind us, if we want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My point is that there's nothing specifically objectionable about .ml (to me, obviously). There's many instances out there, after all, and all of them are at some risk or another form over- (or under-)zealous moderation. If a community is on .ml and seems to be valuable I'll go to it, unlike, say, a community on a hypothetical instance called youngnazisforfreedom.sieg.heil or whatever. If the moderation causes issues, I'll switch to a community (or make another community) on another instance.

THAT is to me the principle of the Fediverse: the ability to choose and to move on at need or will.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago