Also, there is now a weekly thread on [email protected] to promote hobbies communities
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- Soyez respectueux. Tout le monde doit se sentir le bienvenu ici.
- Pas de bigoterie - y compris le racisme, le sexisme, le capacitisme, l'homophobie, la transphobie ou la xénophobie.
- Pas de publicités / Pas de spam.
- Pas de pornographie.
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I look for things to post on some of the communities I follow. Unfortunately I cannot commit to doing this regularly for all communities I follow.
Also, your icon need not be made by you, so even if your art skills are as mediocre as mine it is fine! Grab some Creative Commons thing, slap it on your community, and attribute it. That is what [email protected] did.
Which content are you interested in?
https://lemmit.online/ can be used to crosspost content from Reddit, but you won't get much comments as people tend to prefer content curated by humans
[email protected] has a weekly thread with active communities.
[email protected] helps. You can also post about them in related communities if the community rules allow and communities can partner with each other to link in community sidebars.
Lemmyverse.net show both communities: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=watchreddit
It probably didn't show up in the first place it only has 66 subscribers, and probably none on SJW.
About your second point, you indeed have to promote your community, using [email protected], or related communities. This works quite well usually.
I will add that in your case, people knew about your community as you posted in other communities, but as discussed then, people seemed happy with the existing Reddit-focused communities.
[email protected] (alternate link)
- Promote any community, new or old (limit to 1 post per month per community)
- Ask about communities you're looking for
- There's a pinned post with related resources, some of which are listed below
- specific to new communities, or those that are being rebooted
Finally, if you are new to Lemmy and/or have similar questions, we have [email protected]
The list of apps is pretty out of date. For example, Boost already came out and [email protected] is a pretty popular extension. I use it a lot to make posts, and just used it to open that post on my instance.
Also related is how to find communities
I help with [email protected], and the idea is that you can subscribe to keep seeing more recommendations. We also have a guide for finding new communities here: https://lemmy.ca/post/5581032, which I've copied below:
A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the
/communities
page on an instance. For example: https://lemmy.ca/communitiesFor a list of instances to look through:
- pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
- awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it
🔎 Search pages
- https://lemmyverse.net/communities
- https://browse.feddit.de/ (run by feddit.de)
🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions
- Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect & search for communities
- Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits
- More Apps: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/
🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:
- [email protected]: You're here right now
- [email protected]: Daily posts with the trending communities from across the threadiverse
- [email protected]: Find out about new communities
Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:
Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!
👽 Coming from Reddit?
- sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
- redditmigration.com: List from the migration
- quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration
Don’t use the “all” feed. I only use it to discover new communities (but there is also a specific community for that).
For my daily browsing I exclusively use the “subscribed” feed.
Edit: the community I mentioned is https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] or [email protected]
Go to the communities page for your instance, set it to all, and scroll through the first several pages adding anything that sounds interesting. Don't worry if there are duplicates, sub them all. The search for any favorite topics and add those communities, too. Then browse by subscribed»new going forward.
You can also check out [email protected] for communities still getting off the ground.
Oh! And when linking, do it like I did above; this link works no matter what instance you're on.
That's a good question actually. there is [email protected] for communities, maybe you can reach out to them to see if you can also promote your server?
Yeah it's tricky. I don't want to start a niche community cause i don't want to be a mod, but i guess maybe the best thing to do is start the community i want, pin a post saying "mods wanted", and post it to [email protected]
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Fixing the links for us lemmy users (I think? Still getting used to this myself)
[email protected]
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Unapologetic shill time:
🪴 Plants
- Houseplants [email protected]
- What's this Plant? [email protected]
🏺 Archaeology & Related
- Archaeology [email protected]
- Folklore, Myths, Legends, & Fairy Tales [email protected]
🌎 Geography
- Geography [email protected]
- Biodiversity [email protected]
- Geospatial [email protected]
- Historic(al) Map Porn [email protected]
- Palaeoecology [email protected]
Ya'll gonna have to nerd out with me now. 😎
Check out [email protected] for new communities that pop up. :)
Au passage, sur [email protected] il y a des fils quotidiens avec des commus actives sur des sujets spécifiques, aujourd'hui c'est les animaux, ça t'intéressera peut-être