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Stupid question. Can you a create a community without hosting a server? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by ghostalmedia@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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For example, I would love to create a community about home automation in Apple's ecosystem. How would I do that?

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[–] chloyster@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some instances allow you to make your own community. However beehaw is not one of those instances

[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks, that's super helpful to know. I'm seeing that know by browsing other servers.

IMHO, the UI is probably going to need to be a little more affordant. Since Beehaw is a lot of people's first Lemmy instance, some people are going to thing that only admins can create communities. There might need to be some sort of coaching copy in the UI so people know the functionality exists on the platform, but it's disabled here.

[–] psudo@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying having it in multiple places is bad, but it being set to admin only and why is covered in the philosophy posts you get shown when applying.

[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That's true, but there is a lot of content in that sidebar, and despite reading it, I either glanced over it or didn't retain it.

All in all, good experience design account for letting the user know what the contains of the UI are at the time they have a motivation to do something.

I do UI work for a living, and anytime I try to explain something in onboarding documentation, people glaze over it and or don't retain it. Humans brains aren't really the greatest at being information in that way.

just my 2¢

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How would you communicate that in terms of UI?

[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spitballing here, maybe a “create community” link / button that, when clicked, just tells people how to find an instance that allows community creation. Nothing complicated.

[–] Lionir@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could suggest it on here, seems reasonable and pragmatic : https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

[–] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Good call out. I'll do that!

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 7 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml and lemmy.world currently allow users to create communities, and lemmy.ml seems to be the most popular as of right now.

You could setup your own instance as well, but then there is no guarantee folks will use your instance and the communities that exist there.

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