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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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[–] marcos 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is one at .world. It's not very big, but it's bigger than a brand new one:

https://lemmy.world/c/technology

[–] Akhuyan 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's pretty new too, it was made within the last week, the biggest I've seen is Beehaw's then Lemmy.ml's technology communities. However, new communities are always going to be smaller at the beginning than ones that have been around for a month or a year, but that changes when people learn that they exist!

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

Don't mean to disrespect, but what is your reasoning on building another community for technology when there are a couple already pretty big?

Federation is great, but fragmenting communities seems counterproductive.

[–] Akhuyan 1 points 2 years ago

It's not much of fragmenting communities if people can easily learn about the others and it gives people choice. Not every technology community is the same. For example:

  • Lemmy.ml's focus is on all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it
  • Beehaw's is rumors, happenings, and innovations in the technology sphere. If it’s technological news, it probably belongs here
  • Lemmy.world's seems to be about news
  • Lemmy.einval.net's seems to be about general technology, without a focus on news so far based on the post I can see, but it is too new to know for sure.

While the first three seem to be about news, the fourth seems to be about general technology.

Furthermore, in some cases fragmentation of communities is the very point. Lemmy is meant to be decentralized, which gives you choice in which one to go to. I don't see how you think that is counterproductive though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like technology, I collect technology subscriptions! Here's my current list: