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/[email protected])
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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That's good to hear!
Do you think at some point they should merge to just have more activity and content in one place rather than people having to discuss the same things twice?
Hard to say, I'd prefer having discussion be in one dedicated place but it's probably a good idea having a backup community, especially at times where Lemmy World goes down.
I see. Yes, having a backup community makes sense, but at the same time, I always feel like having both similar communities creates a lot of other issues.
I never really know if I should post on [email protected] or [email protected] for instance. I usually do it on the .ml one because it seems more active, but I also feed bad for people only on the .world who might miss content
That doesn't happen because everything is federated, the .world users will also see the posts on .ml, they can upvote/downvote, comment etc. and vice-versa.
I know it's true in theory, but in practice I have seen some LW users only wanting to browse their local feed, or not wanting to subscribe to .ml communities.
Another issue with having the same content posted twice is that the same discussion could just happen twice, bringing discussion fatigue to the people that just discussed the same topic in another thread.
I agree
How about the idea of creating an instance specific for the topic, but not opening for registrations? This would mean that the instance wouldn't be so overloaded and less likely to disappear, no?
This is the approach I took for [email protected]. I am posting content following from my instance, and I hope that one day it can become the hub for all the soccer-related subs.