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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 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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Hi

Here's a new community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it’s many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

Hope some of you check it out, participate in, and enjoy it!

[email protected]

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

There’s also [email protected], but that one may be dead.

[–] threelonmusketeers 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, kbin.social is dead, so any communities on it are also dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, there's an issue with how communities are federated. If the host instance goes down, there's nothing which reflects when viewing the community from a remote instance. Local users can continue posting, blissfully unaware that their posts aren't being federated.

If you can still see your local lemmy.world version of [email protected], you might want to make one final post there directing any lemmy.world users to the new [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Posted. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was being developed in PHP in 2023, so it's not really a surprise it failed, in hindsight.

If you're OOTL that's a dead programming language more common in the Y2K era, and one that's not remembered fondly at all.