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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 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.

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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!RecommendAGame@indie-ver.se

This is a brand new community for you to share your thoughts, reviews and impressions on indie games you've recently played. Conversely, you can also discover cool games based on the recommendations of other users!

We're still working on getting things set up (rules, sidebar etc.)

  • You should have actually played the game you are writing about. Discussing newly announced games belongs in !news@indie-ver.se
  • Posts should be your writing. They can be a text post or a link to an external blog or YouTube video that you made, but don't post IGN articles
  • Your post should be more in-depth that just "this game is great!". Why is it great? What parts of it are not so great? What kind of person would also enjoy this game?
  • While not a hard requirement, the more unknown the game you are talking about, the better! We don't nescessarely need any posts about what incredible hidden gems Stardew Valley, Celeste and Vampire Survivors are.
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[โ€“] celeste@kbin.earth 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you have a metric of what would count as an obscure indie game? Like, number of reviews or something? Or is the rule just to avoid the big ones like Stardew Valley?

I've played Tchia, Coral Island, and My Time at Sandrock recently, and they feel like middle of the road as far as indies go. MTaS and Coral Island both had successful kickstarters. Would they count?

Sorry, this kind of thing is difficult for me to judge.

[โ€“] PrinzKasper@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago

I think those absolutely qualify! It's really just the super big hitters that everyone has already heard of that I don't think would be useful.