New Communities
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:
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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I'd rather have communities in instances that are topic specific, that's all. It is easier for discovery and easier to explain to newcomers.
The only fitting instances I see are retrolemmy and .zip. Retrolemmy specifies that it is only about retro stuff while my community isn't exclusively about retro stuff (and I'm more interested in posting about modern games). .zip to me feels like a generic instance and I don't like its local feed so I don't see a compelling reason to move to it.
If ttrpg.network doesn't seem suitable to you, I can create a community on level-up.zone and make you a moderator.
level-up zone seems pretty dead to me, there's only one mod who I have no experience with, and I don't think moving a new community around is a good idea in general - it will just confuse people.
I'll stay on blahaj zone for a foreseeable future.
It's not dead, it's in a catch-22. It's not open to users, so there is no way (yet) for users to create communities there without going through me. I want to find a solution for this on this summer so that I don't become a bottleneck.
That would be me. I'm the one running the topic-specific instances. Nice to meet you.