A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
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 or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances 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.
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
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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When your team has a moment, I would recommend setting up your instance on https://lemmy-federate.com/instances
This will automatically add your future communities onto other people's instances so that users can immediately start using them. It helps a lot with community discovery. You can also send out the existing communities after the instance is registered.
I'm not by a computer right now, but I can send over our settings choices if you have any issues.
That's amazing, welcome! I look forward to these communities growing.
The first link was broken for me, here are the 4 communities so far with clickable links for anyone else that wanted it:
I think it's my front-end which made the links into links with []() markdown syntax as well. I'm gonna fix that. Thanks!
Thank you!
I'm also trying to help some of the new users on the linked posts but I'm running into Reddit's Karma requirements. I don't mind passing along the comments for a mod or someone else to post instead 😄
Hyphen seems to have broken the link, at least for me.
That happens on some frontends, like Boost. Works fine on the website!
As a Boost user, can confirm