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

Rules

The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.

1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found 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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Rules are still evolving, but right now I'm just aiming for a community for civil discourse ...if such a thing is possible in politics. !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world

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[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Oh great, another American politics community. Just what the internet needs, another bunch of bickering infants

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd like to try to curtail the personal attacks and bickering with some good rules and guidelines, but I'm not sure it will go anywhere.

Old reddit like <2014 use to be a reasonable place where people all along the political spectrum could discuss policy. That's really no longer an option because most communities/moderators just don't want to deal with that, unfortunately that only makes the problem worse...

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

well it's not only for US particularly. I just created it because there actually doesn't exist a single community (at least on LW, I haven't searched the entire fediverse) to discuss politics, US or global. /c/politics doesn't currently allow top level posts for discussion or self posts because it is difficult to keep civility.

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

if you have a global icon/banner suggestion I'm open for it. Honestly I just had a hard time finding something that represented 'general poltics'

[–] Alice@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

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[–] rglullis 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

LW's demographic is too close to the average Redditor. If you want to have an honest attempt at a community that is not going to be taken over by immature Americans in their twenties who will do nothing but yell at each other: please consider creating the community outside of lemmy.world.

Use a more neutral instance (I'd recommend https://discuss.online) and be more strict about standards of quality discussion. Then you might have something interesting. Otherwise you will just end up with yet-another cesspool.

[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

thank you... I will consider that if this doesn't go anywhere. Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade... it use to be a reasonable place for discussion. I would have thought though that most people that migrated here from Reddit would be slightly more mature since they understand the evil of corporate greed but it seems like lately it's 50/50 on comments now whether you're going to get personally insulted for blinking wrong.

[–] rglullis 3 points 3 weeks ago

Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade

It's not just Reddit. Civic debate has completely deteriorated with the rise of Social Media. It amplified everyone's voices to the point that left drowning in a sea of noise.

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] laverabe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

thank you. I can't update the main link to that for some reason but added it in the comment box.