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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How did you make that universal link?
[link text](/c/[email protected])
That's awesome! Great community by the way!
Okay I will then. But what's the difference? And why so many linking methods?
I like to combine both. Example:
[email protected]
I wrote: [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])
This allows users to hand-copy the visible link to discover the community in their search. Or to click it and view the community from their home instance (while remaining logged in).
Are there any downsides to this, or better approaches?
Ah, you're right! I think that's a valuable objection.
That is exemplary, thank you!
What's the difference between the first and last line? What use case would prefer the first, what's the advantage of the second? https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/[email protected] vs https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/folkmetal
I found it interesting to see kbin included. Will try to do that in the future.
I suggest to include an instance-independent link: folkmetal as seen from your instance
THAT is AMAZING! Worked like a charm for me, community auto discovered. Why experimental, any downsides or reported misbehaviours?
Now I wish we had a lightweight tool.
Input: A link in any format.
Output: Each possibly useful variation. Can be individually copied, or the whole as a preformatted block.
Ultimately, I wish this was somehow incorporated in the fediverse so we don't have to make/understand it manually.