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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/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

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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This is a place to post freely available full-length lectures and courses of the sort available through MIT OCW.

Open Course Lectures
!opencourselectures@slrpnk.net
slrpnk.net/c/opencourselectures

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[–] KinNectar@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@spaduf if you are looking for graduate level philosophy lectures, it doesn't get much better than The European Graduate School https://youtube.com/@egsvideo?si=A29MKhUHiBrpycKI

[–] spaduf 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have any favorites that you would consider posting?

[–] KinNectar@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@spaduf I love Baudrillard. It is a bit odd that he has a student or TA rrad his lecture for him, but once you realize his French accent is so deep as to be near unintelligible to an American you can appreciate it. The thoughts are exceptional: https://youtu.be/q3kgjjTE0dk?si=XM_lMs6KdhLf6_-n

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Weird, his English is just fine, to my ears.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago
[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since these materials are still under copyright, is the community actually posting links to them rather than the materials themselves?

[–] spaduf 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Correct. Lot's of official youtube playlists and links to the various institution's own pages for them. I've tried to keep it so most of the material in my own collection is book based rather than original coursework. Otherwise, whether or not the assignments and assessments can actually be found is kind of a crapshoot. It seems like a lot of institutions pulled back on their coursework sometime over the pandemic, presumably reassessing their value given what appeared to be a long term shift to virtual learning. I'd like to get organized about what resources are actually available and am currently looking for community feedback on how to do that in the most effective way.