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.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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It's maybe better to start something yourself and then request help if it's gets popular rather than ask someone else to start it for you.
On average, Lemmy communities have about 170 subscribers, so there's every chance you wouldn't have to do any moderation at all.
I see... I guess I will try giving it a go.
I can help moderate if you'd like. Once we gain some traction we could hand it off to more experienced community members or something.
I won't have anything to actually post to it though. So I'd mainly be able to contribute to making sure post comments are all good vibes.
I just made /c/crossdressing_selfies@lemmy.ca
Right now it's only 2 of my pics so I am hoping for more pics.
Nice! Make sure to share it to !newcommunities@lemmy.world too!