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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 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/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

[email protected]

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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Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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I've just created [email protected]. It is similar to [email protected] but the other way around.

Text reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colouration or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem is that the ship picture would be perfectly acceptable on dontdeadopeninside tho

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Would it? A true "dontdeadopeninside" reads correctly top to bottom, and incorrectly left to right. The other way around is a "nosafetysmokingfirst". They are very different formats :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

No, they aren't. The rule on the community is not that specific:

Images of text-designs, that are barely readable due to the placement of the words or letters

Also, the stats on that community:

  • 926 subscribers
  • 7 posts in the last 3 months

Remind me again why we're creating a competing community to suck the life out of one that barely gets any posts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That sub wasn't about technicalities but about signs with an easily confused word order. Yours absolutely qualifies.