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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 or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances 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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If people can't be arsed enough to even get their post format correct, they don't deserve the free promotion.

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[–] TeaHands 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well to post to Lemmy from Mastodon, the Mastodon user has to tag the community. That tag displays as a link on the Lemmy side. The Mastodon user has no control over the format of said link, as it's a Mastodon user tag. So your bot shouldn't be trying to correct it at all in this case.

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

The user may tag multiple communities, I tried to not phrase as a correction but more like "here's a link for Lemmy users".

[–] TeaHands 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just not needed though, is the thing. These "links" aren't links that are posted for people to follow, they're just an artifact of having posted from Mastodon. As we get more interaction between the two platforms, your bot as currently written will reply to every single post and comment made from Mastodon, ever. It serves literally no purpose in this situation other than to clog up threads.

I'm not trying to start a fight or anything. If you absolutely won't be convinced that it's pointless replying to Mastodon tags, maybe you can at least consider limiting it to replying only on the main post? Otherwise, again, every single comment in the thread that is made from Mastodon is going to get the same bot response.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Replying to only the top-level post for Mastodon makes sense to me, thanks for the suggestion!

Edit: I temporarily disabled replies to Mastodon posts until I can think of a better solution.

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

Not sure if you're aware but this is still happening. In fact, looking at the bot's posts today is it possible you accidentally set it to only respond to Mastodon threads? 😅

Examples: https://lemm.ee/post/1456125, https://lemm.ee/post/1375340, https://lemm.ee/post/1441558

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, that's exactly what happened... Let's pretend that you didn't notice, shall we? 😆

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

Happens to the best of us 😄