A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
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.
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:
or instance.com/c/community
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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So what is your community? What is its purpose? If you're gonna post here, I highly recommend looking at the community rules and adding all the proper info.
I love seeing people make new Lemmy communities. It's even better when people spread the word in places like NewCommunities, but it doesn't help you much if you're missing all the info (and the proper link).
Is there no moderation in this sub? An instance-agnostic link should be the bare minimum, not the exception.
!canary_cage@lemmy.world
Honestly, the bang syntax for home-instance-agnostic community links isn't very obvious to new users. It's not a piece of standard Markdown syntax, either, so it's not like someone can use knowledge from Reddit or elsewhere.
And the standard web interface, from what I see, does not display it, or have a copy community link button.
Further complicating this, the Threadiverse also has "display names" for communities
something which I think is probably a mistake
and one has to know how to get the actual name for the bang-syntax link. For example, the display name here is "New Communities", but the actual community name is "newcommunities".
I'd like standard bang syntax to be able to link to a post and comment as well in a home-instance-agnostic fashion. That doesn't exist today, and we can't really do it today without Mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed adding support.
Honestly, I was thinking post-approval by mods would be the best solution, for just that reason. Its why I led with the question about the existance of mods. Obviously too much work if its just the single mod who started the community.
~~My apologies. I am new to this technology. What is the URL I should update the link to? I am happy to correct the mistake.~~
I updated the description of my post with what I think is the correct link format. Thank you for the suggestion.
No skin off my back. Sorry, I honestly wasn't meaning to call you out personally, beyond maybe, hey, this is how to do this next time.
~~I may just look into whether I can set this community to ding my notifications for new posts~~ ... apparently that's not a thing in the webUI.