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.
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There is already
https://beehaw.org/c/gaming
!gaming@beehaw.org
Which seems to have the same goal. I don’t think we should start communities for every topic on every instance if we want Lemmy to succeed :)
Good idea to link that one too, but this is a feature on Lemmy to have multiple communities with the same topic, no centralization so we aren't just reliant on one instance. For more niche topics, it might make sense so small communities don't get even more fragmented. However for communities like gaming, a broad topic, it should be fine to have on multiple instances
lemmy.world also has different rules than beehaw.org, so different content and conversations will be allowed. I for one, support the creation of your gaming community and have subbed :)
I just want to make it clear that it isn't my community, I was just promoting it. However, I am glad that you found it useful and subscribed to it!
Honestly, I would argue that it's more of a "bug" of Lemmy than a feature because it leads to fragmentation of communities. But we will have to see how Lemmy evolves now that we reddit refugees are all here.
However, it can be said also that fragmentation is a feature too. It may not make sense for small communities with a small user base already. The point is that for communities like gaming, there would be multiple big gaming communities over time.
This is Lemmy, not Reddit and it being decentralized means that it gives people choice. If you don't like the rules or how a certain community is being run, there are other ones to go too and there is not one "right" option.
While Reddit was built for centralization, Lemmy was not. It was built for federation. By calling it a "bug", you are missing a huge portion of the reason it is that way, since it is working as intended, but I hope this comment makes you understand it better