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[META] Important Post - Rules, Formatting, FAQ, & Cross-Posting Tip (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 community not found message?

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: Why isn't the link working on kbin.social?"

A: This is a community for Lemmy, there is a universal link for Lemmy, but when this universal link works on kbin. It turns out like the below.

https://kbin.social/c/[email protected]/

Simply replace the c with an m for kbin.social like shown below.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/

*Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that? *

A: (This may be removed soon as it is seems to be happening less often now.) 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.

Cross-Posting

On Lemmy you can use the the built in cross post function to link viewers of one post to another. This lets users quickly see what people in other communities are saying and also has the potential to expose someone to something new. For community owners this is a great way to go about seeding discussion in new communities.

Example:

Thanks to this post and creator for this tip!

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Is there a place for us to request new communities?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

@Akhuyan, I just wanted to let you know that you're doing a great job.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you for saying that!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Q: Is it better to create my community on a large general Lemmy instance, a topical Lemmy instance, or create my own Lemmy instance?

A: It is up to you, but there are a few things to consider. General instances will likely help early discoverability, and your main account is likely already on one. However, your community will encounter risks of admin change and others defederating with the general instance for reasons unrelated to your community. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you must create an alt account on the general instance to create the community.

Self-hosting an instance will let you be in control. You'll have fewer worries about your community not being found due to defederation or the instance admins shutting it down over reasons unrelated to your community. However, you'll have to rely on word of mouth, communities like this, and the community search tools like Lemmy Explorer to get people there.

Topical instances might be a good middle ground if you trust the instance admins. As the local feed will have related topics, you'll likely be a positive contributor to the local instance feed and find a lot of shared interests with others on that instance. Topical instances will probably only be defederated by instances you wouldn't want to federate with already. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you'll need to create an alt account on the topical instance to create the community.

Edits: network issues, reworded

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

My spinning issue was resolved by not selecting a language when posting. Keeping it as Select Language allowed me to post.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I tried doing that with a previously unsearched/unsubscribed community as a test on my own instance, and I got a 404: couldnt_find_community error when clicking the link. As you stated, it seems like in most cases that special link will not work unless someone has previously manually searched for the same community in your instance.

I think I'd rather link directly to the instance for the community than get a 404 error. For most people, getting the 404 will just deter them from proceeding further.

Perhaps it would be best to include both links in a post?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, it would best to use two links, that is why I said you should include the following format in the post, then said it gets a 404 sometimes, and to include one of the other formats too that you can use while searching, if it wasn't searched for already

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just tried to click on a couple links formatted in various ways from a "jerboa for lemmy" app and it redirected to a browser (where I am not logged in).

Is there a format friendly to the app, or is there a app config that needs to be updated?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

when the in-app browser came up, I just logged in. then you can subscribe, and it stays logged in, so the next time you tap a link, you can just subscribe. its not pretty, but its easy and fast enough, and will do while the Jerboa dev continues to improve Jerboa.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have never used the Jerboa app so take this all with a grain of salt, since it may be different than the website. The link with the [link text](/c/[email protected]) should only work if the community is already linked with your instance, the two other formats can be put in the search bar, and after the instance fetches it, it should show up, but not sure how this all works on the app version though

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

[link text](/c/[email protected])

Crashes jerboa

[!community@instance](instance/c/community)

Opens the community in a new browser where you are not logged in

!community@instance

Does not work, thinks it is an email address and prompts to open in your email app

The problem is jerboa, I believe it is being looked into by the devs

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks just adding that I'm also still having this issue using Jerboa. Glad they're looking into it though

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've been running into this issue as well(also on jerboa). It seemed as though I needed to create a new account attached to the instance I was linking to in order to subscribe to the community. I don't want to have to juggle between 3 or 4 accounts to browse the communities I'm interested

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

so... 1 - how is the compatibility to link to instances in other feds? (kbin, mastodon...)

2 - its possible to sub to a community on other feds inside lemmy, or is required to setup a account there?

some folks from our scope have instances there, but I don't know if someone here on lemmy can sub to their feeds and how they can link properly so cross posts works as intended

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
  1. as long as you use the instance.com/c/community format it should link to other instances such as kbin.social or lemmy.ml

I'm not positive that works for mastodon but it should. I also wouldn't advise making an account on lemmy.ml as it's currently experiencing a lot of instability due to a large influx of users. Imo lemmy.world is the current most stable instance so this is where I plan on residing.

  1. as long as you have an account on this instance you can subscribe to communities on any instance in the fediverse and you should see their posts on your feed in this instance as long as you're not in the "local" tab (on jerboa).
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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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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