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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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[META] Important Post - Rules, Formatting, FAQ, & Cross-Posting Tip (self.newcommunities)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Akhuyan to c/newcommunities
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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 community not found message?

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: Why isn't the link working on kbin.social?"

A: This is a community for Lemmy, there is a universal link for Lemmy, but when this universal link works on kbin. It turns out like the below.

https://kbin.social/c/[email protected]/

Simply replace the c with an m for kbin.social like shown below.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/

*Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that? *

A: (This may be removed soon as it is seems to be happening less often now.) 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.

Cross-Posting

On Lemmy you can use the the built in cross post function to link viewers of one post to another. This lets users quickly see what people in other communities are saying and also has the potential to expose someone to something new. For community owners this is a great way to go about seeding discussion in new communities.

Example:

Thanks to this post and creator for this tip!

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

so... 1 - how is the compatibility to link to instances in other feds? (kbin, mastodon...)

2 - its possible to sub to a community on other feds inside lemmy, or is required to setup a account there?

some folks from our scope have instances there, but I don't know if someone here on lemmy can sub to their feeds and how they can link properly so cross posts works as intended

[–] Imotali 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  1. as long as you use the instance.com/c/community format it should link to other instances such as kbin.social or lemmy.ml

I'm not positive that works for mastodon but it should. I also wouldn't advise making an account on lemmy.ml as it's currently experiencing a lot of instability due to a large influx of users. Imo lemmy.world is the current most stable instance so this is where I plan on residing.

  1. as long as you have an account on this instance you can subscribe to communities on any instance in the fediverse and you should see their posts on your feed in this instance as long as you're not in the "local" tab (on jerboa).
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at least on mastodon it doesnt works at all, prompting mastodon.social/c/dragoesdegaragem or [email protected], the direct link ( https://mastodon.social/@dragoesdegaragem ) and such as example, returns couldnt_find_object

[–] Imotali 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon isn't a Lemmy instance. It's a different server software. That said I know there's work being done to ease federation between Mastodon and Lemmy.