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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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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by gedaliyah to c/newcommunities
 

There is now an Actually Infuriating community on Lemmy! Post things that are beyond just mildly infuriating. It's only mildly infuriating that someone didn't make this sooner!

Actually Infuriating

[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] gedaliyah 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Again, thanks for mentioning it. I replied to your alt that I wasn't able to find it when searching, which is why it is now linked in the sidebar.

Thanks to your suggestion, anyone who finds [email protected] will also be able to find [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The issue is more about still another new community on LW while the existing SJW could have just been reused

[–] gedaliyah 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I understand this point as well. This community was created as a result of several requests in [email protected] from people who were unable to locate the alternative. I did not see [email protected] suggested or promoted in that community, and I did not find it when I searched. Unfortunately we all know that the search built into Lemmy is not great.

Hopefully this new community will also raise the profile of the SJW one. I have included the link in the sidebar so that more people can find it. If this community proves unnecessary, I will happily close it and merge with the SJW one.

I appreciate the work you do in helping to keep the fediverse distributed. It is truly our greatest strength.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] gedaliyah 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wish the conversation happened before creating the community, but I don't agree that locking a community immediately after creating it is the best way to build a resilient platform. Unless there is some kind of automatic link forwarding that I'm not aware of. I'm making assumptions about what "Redirect" means based on my knowledge.

Is this the best account to reach you by pm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That community is 3 days old, it had 11 posts, it's still very reasonable to create a meta post about it and point people to the SJW

Unless there is some kind of automatic link forwarding that I’m not aware of. I’m making assumptions about what “Redirect” means based on my knowledge.

If you lock the community and pin the post to the SJW one willing to post will just follow that post to the SJW community

There is a fancier version like what @[email protected] did on [email protected]

  • ping everyone who ever commented on the old community using a script
  • configure a bot to lock every new post and redirect them to the new community

But the last point probably overkill for a community that's 3 days old.

And for the first one, it can be done manually too

Dm

Yes, this one or Matrix

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You created the new community yesterday, it's still time to lock it and redirect to the SJW one?

I appreciate the work you do in helping to keep the fediverse distributed.

To be fair the more I look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active the more I feel it's a daunting task. And new communities like this one not being opened on other instances does not help.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Excellent! This was needed alongside Mildly Infuriating.

[–] Valmond 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The posts there are just trash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Feel free to contribute quality content!

[–] Valmond 3 points 6 days ago

There are enough infuriating news everywhere IMO, good luck though.

[–] MITM0 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What will count as "Misinformation" ??

[–] gedaliyah 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The standard will be similar to other Lemmy communities.

As with others, if this is applied in error, only providing a credible source will be necessary to reverse a removal.

[–] MITM0 2 points 5 days ago

Then who's gonna decide what sources are credible ? There's going to bias in that too (well I'll leave it at that, you can answer it if you wish)