this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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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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Hello people!
I just made a new community about watches, which has an amazing guide about wrist watches and other stuff about to come!
Feel free to subscribe and post anything about watches.
!watches@lemmy.zip

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[–] rglullis 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you'd rather join forces, take a look at !watches@style.land

[–] Blaze@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe it's a federated issue? anyways If he would like to come a join my instance or do both and see how it goes?

[–] Blaze@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Your community is more likely to survive, as you are known to be an active poster, and Lemmy.zip has a very good track record.

Also I just checked, your community already has more subscribers.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea, somehow I got more subscribers. I will keep posting slowly and see if anyone will start too. My always goal is to see others post. See vinyl, at least a user posts daily.

[–] Blaze@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds good!

[–] rglullis 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not a federation issue, just that the community was running the alien.top mirroring system and I stopped it.

Regarding "why I do not join you instead": Nothing against you or lemmy.zip, I just do not want to contribute to communities that are on non topic-specific instances.

I can give you all the moderation powers and full control over the community at the topic-specific instance if you want. Also, my ADAPT project is very close to achieve API-parity with Lemmy, and this summer I am planning to convert the topic-specific instances to it. This will mean I will be able to add new features and make the work for content curation and promotion easier.

[–] rglullis 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, it was one of the alien.top targets. Still, better to use a topic-specific instance that already exists for 3 years than bootstrapping yet-another community.