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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 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

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 searched this morning for communities related to polyamory and open relationships. Finding nothing, I created something. If you are interested in polyamory, open relationships, ethical non-monogamy, etc, swing on by for a chat, to post something silly, as you will.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 107 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Polyamory is WRONG! You people disgust me!

Mixing Latin and Greek words like that! Either call it multiamory or polyphilia!

The nerve of some people!

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago

This is why I don't watch television.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you feel about multiphilia? ;-)

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

I never noticed

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

polyphilia

Love that band. Their latest album is the shit.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 19 points 3 months ago

swing on by for a chat

I see you.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago (18 children)

Interesting topic. Any link to share?

[–] Elevator7009@kbin.run 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

!polyamory@kbin.run /c/polyamory@kbin.run

Delighted to see another Mbin magazine for once. It is the Fediverse, and lately it's been feeling like the Lemmyverse. Hope this gets users.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

TY! I'm still learning the syntax.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope you're ready for a deluge of ignorant comments. And some malicious ones.

I'm going quickly enumerate some of the more common responses.

"I knew a poly couple and they broke up!" -> we've all known many monogamous relationships that ended, too. Though it is true that going from a conventional, deeply entangled, monogamous relationship to something else is challenging. Read about the missing step if you're interested. Monogamous people would also benefit.

"It's bad for the kids!" -> the poly people I know who have kids, the kids are doing great. They have more adults in their lives that are invested in them.

"It's just cheating!" -> cheating is when you break agreed upon rules. If the rules don't include "only have sex with one person", then it's not cheating to do otherwise.

"It's just about sex!" -> sometimes! Sometimes monogamous relationships are just about sex. Sometimes they're not.

"I'm too jealous for that!" -> most people experience jealousy. What's important is how you deal with it. If you're the kind of person who has a freak out and breaks into your partner's phone because he smiled at the waitress, that's not ok and not something to be proud of. You can and should work on emotional regulation.

"You poly people think you're better than everyone!" -> some people might. But that's true for any subcategory of people. Vegans. Linux users. City dwellers. Country dwellers. I will say that living unexamined choices I think is the worse choice. If monogamy is something you really thought about and chose, fine, good for you. But if you're just doing it because that's expected and never gave it a thought? Less impressed. The same for eating meat or using windows.

Ok, I think that's all the highlights.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We've already had "it's just about sex". And anyone that's been around has heard all the rest, and more. Let's see how it rolls, without expectations, fearless. And please, when your predictions come to fruition, come help out. It's all about education, and conversation. :-)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

!polyamory@kbin.run is the link you want to put. Otherwise it just links to !polyamory on the user's home instance.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused, both those resolve to the same link, on my screen.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because your home instance is kbin.run where the community is! Try these. !programming and !programming@programming.dev

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I see what you mean. And I corrected the link above to what I think is correct. Can you, would you please check me on that? I'm just learning how this all works. Seems there's some federation issues for some users.

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[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Correct me if I am wrong but are there not websites for this stuff? This got me curious because never been screwed by a man. And as a lesbian I think about it from time to time.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I mean. It’s any website that has user communities, if their users skew that way.

Polyamory isn’t some niche kink.

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I may be misunderstanding your question. Is this not a "website for this stuff"? Or do you mean by "this stuff" a dating site? Mostly I see this site as a place for polyamory related discussion, memes, infographics, book reviews and lists, links to other 'websites for this stuff', news and related info, etc, etc. And all those things that other poly folx will think of that have never occurred to me. In case it's not crossed your radar, it's been out so long, Lesbian Polyfidelity by Celeste West was an early book in my polyamorous education. :-)

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for the answer....no sarcasm.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are welcome. It's all about the conversation. I saw an opportunity to build a tiny bit of friendly space in the Fediverse. I'm a reddit-fugee, and don't need the sort of antagonism I found there in my life, any more. Yesterday, I searched up polyamory on Fedi, and with my poor search skills thought no one had made a poly community here. So I popped up something on Kbin.run as it's my 'native' instance, thinking it would be a stub, but there appears to be interest. I asked specifically, later in the day when I had searched more effectively and found that there are indeed other poly related communities, e.g. on lemmy.world, and also polyamory alberta (tho no posts there in a year, I hope they can flourish, soon) - I asked if there was a need/ interest in keeping this one (https://kbin.run/m/Polyamory), and everyone said we should keep it, as there's strength in diversity. So my poly-brain couldn't say no to that.

[–] Don_Dickle@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok and not being a bitch or sarcastic that has got to be on the sidebar or something similar. You are better than my google search.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Umm, (coyly) why thank you! I don't use goog, if I can avoid it. Insert brief anti-corporate rant. In this case I was searching within the Feidiverse using the search bar on Kbin.run. And also searching with DuckDuckGo!, which search engine doesn't save one's searches/ results. I'll put links to other polyfedi stuff in the sidebar, good suggestion. :-)

[–] rami@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I'm really confused how you got from polyamory to 'getting screwed by a man.'

[–] Elevator7009@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Polyamory's for lesbians too. Three women all dating each other counts. In a different comment they talk about not knowing what polyamory is, looking it up, and getting sex stuff, so maybe they saw some one-guy-two-girl porn stuff?

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