New Communities
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:
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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Oh nice! I didn't know this one existed!
Happy to help!
As you can see in a comment below (https://lemmy.world/comment/13918137), most of the posters now prefer the dbzer0 one compared to midwest.social
Thanks for the background there. I've subbed to this new LOTR community!
Thanks for the heads up. I don't have any personal beef with the instance but it's good info.
You're welcome!
What was the problem with [email protected]?
Also this older one too - https://lemmy.world/post/18414833 - i.e. this is a repeated pattern of behavior, not just a series of isolated incidents.
We probably want to inform @[email protected]
Thanks for tagging me. This is a little upsetting. =(
The new one looks promising!
Yeah, I like PugJesus and have full confidence.
and have full confidence.
I live to disappoint!
Have you reached out to @[email protected], the active mod of [email protected], for their thoughts?
If they are on board, it would be great if we could make the community migration semi-official.
From past experience, the most effective way to migrate users seems to be to lock the old community and leave a pinned post redirecting users to the new community.
A few of us recently consolidated the electric vehicles communities this way, and I know Blaze has had similar successes.
I dunno, it's like, the instance admin has the right to trim the instance in a manner that cultivates the community they want to see. I'm legitimately not looking to start drama. I just don't want to post on the midwest.social lotrmemes sub now. That's the great thing about the Fediverse, decentralization and such.
If they want to make the migration, not only is that cool, that is amazing and not only will I happily mod the other comm's mods, but step down from modding myself because honestly I mod too many communities as it is. But I'm not looking to make a case for abandoning the other lotrmemes sub, and I imagine most people will not have much interest in admin drama.
It's up to you.
Anyway, if TPM stops posting on the old one and focuses on the new one, that should be enough to bring people over
I'm incredibly confused about what happened and what I should be doing.
The admin of the midwest.social banned someone for what seems like a strange reason, behaviour which is usually qualified as "power tripping". People usually dislike that behaviour, and consider avoiding such instances, which is why PugJesus created the new community: [email protected]
Another example:
In terms of actions you can consider doing
- create a meta post on the current community to explain the situation to the members
- become a mod on the new community
- lock the community on midwest.social with a post to the new community (exemple: https://lemmy.world/c/casualconversation)
Nice!
Any particular reason this is being made while another exists? Not saying there's anything wrong with it, just curious if there's a reason
Just some unease about midwest.social's admins.
In that case. Subbed
Well alright fair enough
Noice! I can't see any of the posts except one from today, though now that I've subscribed at Discuss.Online others should be able to see it there too.
A....nd now there's 5 posts and 8 subscribers there from DO, wow it's growing quickly, keep up the excellent work!:-D
If you want you can search for the post URLs in the search bar, that should fetch them
Ah, even the older ones? Nice!:-)
Except it looks like it won't ever retrieve the comments for them, boo:-(. e.g. I was going to respond to a comment by [email protected] with how "no man can defeat me" for their #1 list item, but I cannot (with a DO account) b/c there are no comments federated from https://discuss.online/post/14197685.
Though at least posts are coming in, now that I've subscribed to it.
You can fetch comments too using the search bar
Oh wow thank you. I have definitely tried that before and it failed, but probably there are certain conditions that needed to have been met first, like perhaps the post must already be there and/or the community already have started federating. So this feature definitely would have fallen between the cracks of knowledge for me if you hadn't said so.:-)