A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
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.
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
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.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Very cool! I agree about avoiding most of the sub feeds.
If you don't mind, could you add some Canadian news providers?
Not news, but if you think it might be nice, webcomics:
You may need an RSS feed detector for some of these. I don't see a button on the site for a few, but I added them somehow a few months ago.
A more general thought/suggestion:
Have a general support community that people can post in, and pin a post from it on the instance so people know where to post with requests and ideas. You could also include a link to the communities page or some other list of all communities that are available. It could help with discoverability
Also feel free to cross post to [email protected]
I added [email protected] and [email protected] for you.
I know there's already [email protected] and I wouldn't want to duplicate that community. @[email protected] do you want me to set up an RSS bot to post new comics to the existing lemmy.world community? If one doesn't already exist? It's easy to configure the RSS bot to post comics to a designated community for them, and I think that's better than setting up a duplicate community.
Forgot to say thanks yesterday, it looks good!
That makes sense to me about XKCD :) There's also [email protected] for some of the other ones
Yep. I'm happy it's working.
Comic strips seem like they have their own communities which I don't want to collide with, and it's logical, since the frequency of posting is so much smaller that a human can do the postings no problem.
Wonderful, thank you!
Neat idea!
Interesting project!
A lot of big sites offer feeds for different categories of article, but I'm not sure it is smart to mirror every single one into a Lemmy community
One problem I forsee with bot-only communities is a lack of discussion. Would it be possible to direct one of these subfeeds to an existing Lemmy community not on rss.ponder.cat? (with the approval of the community of course)