this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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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/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

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.

Extra FAQ information

Image Attribution:

Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

founded 1 year ago
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Join us at the front gate to welcome new users into Lemmy, and to the Fediverse as a whole!

Links:


I'm hoping this community will encourage new people to do things like the following:

  • share what you're looking for, or what you want to do. We'll help you find it
  • Ask questions! The Fediverse is new to most people. If you're unsure about something, others are unsure as well.
  • Just smile and wave, maybe someone will wave back ๐Ÿ‘‹

I searched around for a bit and didn't see a community for this purpose, so I made this one.

If you have suggestions, have resources for the new users, or want to help moderate, let me know!

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[โ€“] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 10 months ago

Very cute logo!

[โ€“] HunterBidensLapDog@infosec.pub 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read that as New Ptolemy.

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

sorry old Ptolemy

[โ€“] illi@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Great to hear! I had them generated, but I was really happy with how this one came out :)

I'm hoping to eventually have some Lemmy artists swap the banners/icons once there's a need for it

[โ€“] Gamers_Mate@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First thing I noticed was the adorable picture what ai did you use to generate it? It turned out amazing!

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

It took some trial and error, but I used DALLE for it. The prompt was something like

cartoonish flat style of a young lemming walking down a path, on its first day

[โ€“] illi@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Crazy what AI can do, still didn't quite got used to it.

[โ€“] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have it in a even bigger resolution? It is super cute <3

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Hopefully imgur doesn't compress it: https://i.imgur.com/slxKa60.png

[โ€“] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] illi@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Unless we want to not shit for a few days...

[โ€“] reef@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

Good rule to keep in mind ๐Ÿ˜„

[โ€“] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Far out! How dd you get that photograph of me?!?

[โ€“] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Trail camera ๐Ÿ˜Š