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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 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.

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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List of popular communities you should visit! (self.newcommunities)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by simple to c/newcommunities
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As Lemmy starts maturing, there starts being so many communities out there that it's pretty hard to keep track. I've been browsing for about a month now, here's a list of popular communities I've subscribed to that others would find interesting!

Not many of these were noticeable while browsing communities so you may have missed some of these. I've roughly ranked these based on which I'd spend the most time on in each category.

Also note that I would add Kbin communities as well, but federation between Lemmy and Kbin is still not working well, so right now this post is for Lemmy communities only!

General Discussion

Humor & Memes

Technology

Pictures & Videos

Movies & TV

Video Games

And that's it. Whew. Obviously I might have missed some, but these are the most interesting communities for me.

Interested in finding more communities? Check out [email protected] to see people showing off their new communities.

Edit: Removed spaces from links, added xbox to games section

Edit 2: android community moved to [email protected], updated link

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

i had to unsubscribe from !technews @radiation.party because it is borderline spam.

i am not talking about quality of the posts, lot of these links are quite interesting, but there is so many of them that it just took over my feed and i want to see something else occasionally :D

there should be a feature to subscribe to community but exclude it from feed, or somehow limit it to max x posts per y time or something..

[–] simple 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bot definitely posts a ton of links per hour. I don't have it subscribed but I do check in every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I developed it to average new posts over each 5m interval so there isn’t a huge dump of posts every 5 minutes- but it’s still a lot of topics compared to Lemmys typical activity.

Lots of non-tech crap gets mixed in, thinking about adding some filtering etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tried to copy and remove the extra space in front of the @ to see if that helps for people not on lemmy.world (myself included).

Hope it works, thanks OP for the list.

General Discussion

Humor & Memes

Technology

Pictures & Videos

Movies & TV

Video Games

Seemed to fix the 404 for me (on lemmy.zip)

Sorry if I missed some, it's late and I'm doing this on mobile while holding a sleeping baby.

[–] G_Wash1776 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When I click on any of the links it says content or community was not found.

[–] simple 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works for me on the website, I'm not sure if mobile apps play nice with links. If I messed up the formatting hopefully someone that knows more can tell me what's wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Remove the space before the @. Anyone who clicks on the links who isn't from lemmy.world will get a 404, or they will be directed to the wrong community if one exists on their instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What app are you using friend?

I'm currently using liftoff and every link is working correctly, many apps have had issues with how link handling works, so I was pleasantly surprised to see it working in today's update

[–] G_Wash1776 4 points 1 year ago

I tried on both WefWef and Memmy, I’ll have to try on a different app or the actual site.

[–] QuikxSpec 3 points 1 year ago

Memmy is not reading the links properly on iPhone and is chopping the text weirdly

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

I can't get links to work on Connect or Jerboa

[–] Nunar 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's working with Jerboa for me on Android

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Surprised you haven't listed [email protected] on memes. It's surprisingly active (if you're not used to it from Reddit already)

[–] testfactor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Commenting to save this post. Will check back later on a platform where the links work. :)

[–] EqMinMax 1 points 1 year ago

Save comments exists in lemmy

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

I wish there was an easy way to link to these communities so that Kbin users could access them directly

[–] DooDeeDoo 2 points 1 year ago

So android moved. It’s locked rn

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

Links not working for me. Using Connect for lemmy. Any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

works on Liftoff FWIW

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

Thanks, gonna try that!

Edit: Confirmed, this did the trick

[–] Bimbus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Links not working for Jerboa either :(

[–] varadin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Links work fine on Jerboa

[–] Bimbus 1 points 1 year ago

At the time, the links were not working. I think it was just when In general the instance wasn't working / constant crashing or not loading.

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

The links take me to a 404 page.

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

That's because OP added a space between the c/ and the @. It's not really helpful for anyone who isn't on .world

[–] EqMinMax 1 points 1 year ago

for apple fanboys:
[email protected]
[email protected]

[email protected]

[–] Bonzo 1 points 1 year ago

Anything for e-bikes or e-bike building?

[–] mitochondriawesome 1 points 1 year ago

This is so helpful!! Thanks for putting this together

[–] klp 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the list. Got a little lost randomly browsing communities. This helps a lot.

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