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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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An attempt to start an index of communities on Lemmy for people to find new topics.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nice, let's see how it goes.

As a side note, did it have to be on Lemmy.world? Aussie.zone is still 5 days behind, and with the issues that Lemmy 0.19.7 has with pictures, it does not seem like LW is going to update any time soon

I have a few communities I could post, but I would really prefer to have this community on another instance than LW. Lemm.ee or lemmy.zip as usual would be good candidates.

Edit: also, [email protected] exists

[–] laverabe 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is everyone 5 days behind LW? I don't quite really grasp how exactly there is a 5 day lag, shouldn't Lemmy be close to real time? I don't fully understand what's going on in those charts but it looks like the delay will be gone in a few weeks/months?

As far as hosting it on a different instance, this is just kinda a playful experiment. If it goes well anyone can copy the list and put it a version of it on their server.

I clicked 5 of the links in the lemmydirectory github/wiki list and all of them the last post was 1 year ago. That's what kinda sucks about all the indexes is that they're either the extremely popular communities which show up in the communities tab, or extremely dead communities. The goal is to get a list of extremely active smaller communities and without changing Lemmy source code myself, this is the next best thing I could think of to make a list like that.

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

Aussie.zone is, and a few other instances regularly have issues. The issues have been here for months, are not going to be fixed any time soon as the latest Lemmy version still has issues like the pictures one: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196

Some additional details:

As far as hosting it on a different instance, this is just kinda a playful experiment. If it goes well anyone can copy the list and put it a version of it on their server.

If we were to open an index community on let's say lemmy.zip, known for their transparency and reactive management (https://lemmy.world/post/22643868), would you consider closing [email protected] and redirect to the new lemmy.zip community?

When two similar communities coexist, the LW version always dominates due to LW size, so the non-LW version is always struggling, and people don't know where to post.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Seems to be locked, with zero posts...

Edit: Disregard... Hasn't federated yet...

[–] laverabe 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It is locked for new posts by design, everyone can comment. The idea is to have 5 main posts and a discussion thread. The 5 main posts can act as a user voted community list, and I can change the layout if anyone has suggestions in the discussion thread.

I figured this would actually be a fairly quick way to build a curated list without any moderator involvement - essentially commenters and voters would create the list.

[–] aeronmelon 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sticky all of the index posts and they will always be on top. Then other people can post their own additions/discussion to allow the community to trend and be seen by people who are not subscribed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, it hasn't federated to my instance yet. I wasn't seeing any posts, or any way to interact with the community at all. Right now, only one post is currently visible from my instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago