New Communities
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/community@instance.com)
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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What is the most recent post that you see, and which instance are you viewing it from?
This is an issue with the way communities currently federate. If the host instance goes down, users can continue posting to their local versions of the community, blissfully unaware that their posts are no longer being federated. I think it would be better if remote communities would automatically lock or display some sort of warning if they don't hear from the host instance for X days.
If you've already reached out to the mod with no reply, I don't think it would be bad etiquette to start your own. Perhaps reach out to the mod again once you've done so and offer them a mod position, but they may have just lost interest or be busy.
...huh. I guess that explains the lack of traction my last post on !bertstrips@feddit.de got. TIL.
Yup, that's why. You can even tell approximately when feddit.de went down by observing the sharp drop in engagement on the posts.
I've been trying to grow !bertstrips@lemm.ee, which already existed prior to the death of feddit.de, but was a dormant community. Please feel free to subscribe and post there!
Our little discussion here prompted me to post to https://sh.itjust.works/c/bertstrips@feddit.de, directing people to !bertstrips@lemm.ee. Obviously this post won't federate, so you might want to consider posting something similar to https://slrpnk.net/c/bertstrips@feddit.de.
I just dropped a few of my favorites on .ee. I see a post on .de from a couple of months ago floating a move to feddit.org, but it looks like nobody followed through.
Thanks! Nice to have someone else posting.
I saw that as well and considered it, but since a community already existed on lemm.ee, it seemed simpler to just use that one.
To be honest I forget, but it was back when I was on kbin.run and within the past 2 weeks. I have tried a few other instances and it does not work from them. Thank you for your advice, I will definitely be putting it to use!