New Communities
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/[email protected])
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
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 run a motorcycle community specific to the model we ride, and unfortunately not getting much traction.
Unfortunately these communities thrive off original 1st party content, DIY fixes, new purchases, questions etc.
I'm having trouble generating that organically.
We need lemmy searches to show up in Google. Then we can name topics appropriately (read; accurately) so that they are found by more people.
Right now it's like shouting into the abyss.
Have you tried expanding scope from a specific model to any model from that manufacturer?
I have not. I don't want to make things more convoluted, and also there are other Make specific communities so maybe I'll just concentrate over there.
I’m hoping [email protected] picks up. It’s a community to post art created by kids. I know a lot of parents are proud of their kids’ artwork but don’t want to share it because they don’t know if everybody else would find it great/cute/adorable/etc. This is a positive community where any artwork by kids is welcome with positive vibes. I hope it gets more people proudly showing off their kids’ artwork, because I think kids artwork is more than just a piece of art, it’s a window into a kid’s mind.
[email protected] I have been posting a lot to try to get it active in time for the start of regular season. I found the same community on Reddit helpful in sourcing advice/consensus on certain players and such
Here’s a negative of your question: I’m blocking/ignoring every community that is just endless bot posts. And there are a lot of them.
You can also just turn off viewing accounts that are marked as bots
I tend to ban bots too
Currently focusing on [email protected] and [email protected] which are pretty much the same thing. The communities are a lot more active than last month so things are looking pretty good.
I also want to focus on getting a graphic novels community up and running but I don't have that much free time sadly.
That's good to hear!
Do you think at some point they should merge to just have more activity and content in one place rather than people having to discuss the same things twice?
Hard to say, I'd prefer having discussion be in one dedicated place but it's probably a good idea having a backup community, especially at times where Lemmy World goes down.
I see. Yes, having a backup community makes sense, but at the same time, I always feel like having both similar communities creates a lot of other issues.
I never really know if I should post on [email protected] or [email protected] for instance. I usually do it on the .ml one because it seems more active, but I also feed bad for people only on the .world who might miss content
but I also feed bad for people only on the .world who might miss content
That doesn't happen because everything is federated, the .world users will also see the posts on .ml, they can upvote/downvote, comment etc. and vice-versa.
I know it's true in theory, but in practice I have seen some LW users only wanting to browse their local feed, or not wanting to subscribe to .ml communities.
Another issue with having the same content posted twice is that the same discussion could just happen twice, bringing discussion fatigue to the people that just discussed the same topic in another thread.
I have seen some LW users only wanting to browse their local feed, or not wanting to subscribe to .ml communities.
We shouldn't centralise Lemmy just because some users treat it as such.
I agree
How about the idea of creating an instance specific for the topic, but not opening for registrations? This would mean that the instance wouldn't be so overloaded and less likely to disappear, no?
This is the approach I took for [email protected]. I am posting content following from my instance, and I hope that one day it can become the hub for all the soccer-related subs.
probably any of the book or art comms
[email protected] is probably the community I'm most active in. It's a welcoming community for anyone who brews their own alcohol (mainly beer focused I would say but some people have made mead and other wines).
I originally thought you were talking about home brewing custom content for TTRPGs, but alcohol is cool too.
I thought they were talking about hacking game consoles, but TTRPGs are cool too
I thought we were talking about brewing homes but hacking game consoles is cool too
I wouldn't call myself a "regular poster" but I was making an effort to try putting some stuff on [email protected] before BG3 started monopolizing my attention.
All the "Ask" munis mostly, with the cycling munis next and the local munis right behind that.