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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

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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.

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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

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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 haven't seen a community dedicated to Windows 9x yet, so I decided to make it myself.

!win9x@retrolemmy.com

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why?

Honest question.

People still actually use those versions?

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retro computing is a really popular hobby. There's a Mastodon client for DOS, for instance.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nostalgia is a helluva drug. It's not just about the OS, but also the retro games that were made for it. And the hardware for retro collectors. I just noticed trying to find games to post on the DOS Gaming community that many of the retro games I loved as a kid were made for Win9x. So I made the community to post more of my personal nostalgia.

[–] testuser@catata.fish 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, once a year I’ll get the itch to play Sim Tower and will end up spending hours in it.

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Insert Gandalf meme here

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Holy smokes... Millennium Edition! I had forgotten all about that one!

I'm with the other guy though, how come? Pre-HAL OS's were a pain and you can make most software run if you set up the environment correctly on a modern computer.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 year ago

I still remember the windows Xp compatibility problems with old software and games. And windows 10/11 didn't make those problems go away, instead it got worse. Old software is not a priority, understandably.

For example have you tried to play Dungeon Keeper 2 on a modern pc? I have, and it crashes constantly. Other software won't even run a lot of the times, even with tinkering.

DOSBox made using DOS software accessible. There is not a catch-all like that for pre XP windows software yet.

Also this community is mostly for/about nostalgia.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 year ago

Great! Thanks. Amazing list!

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have a laptop rocking Win 2k. Unfortunately I couldn't back up the Program Files folder before the hard drive failed. But at least I got the original La-Mulana playable on the desktop.