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/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.
Extra FAQ information
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Moderators
Ooh a PieFed community! Wonder how that'll play with Mbin and Lemmy. Followed. Hope this along with the more mainstream textile hobby communities convince me to actually engage in my textile hobbies more often.
My prior Lemmy instance (lemmy.one) is abandoned and slowly losing functionality, and I had to find somewhere new to move, so I figured... why not PieFed? I like if so far! Seems to be playing well with the other thread platforms, hopefully I'm doing it right.
Feel free to post your work if you get back into textiles again!
PieFed is pretty seamless when it comes to federation in my experience. And it's also adding new features at a rapid pace, including some that Lemmy doesn't even have yet. I think you made a good choice.
Btw, nice community name :) Having a clever name is surprisingly helpful when it comes to growing communities.
What is the PieFed?
https://join.piefed.social/
https://piefed.social/
It's another link aggregator that's part of the fediverse, just like Lemmy or Mbin.
Neat. Looks like I need to add support for piefed on Fediverser. Would you be interested in becoming an ambassador to help redditors migrate and to get content to bootstrap your community?
Sounds interesting, sure! What would that entail?
Basically, you need to sign up to fediverser and then add your community as a recommended alternative for the subreddit. Then you'll be able to "apply" for the ambassador. Once approved, you will be able to see reddit posts and send invites to redditors to migrate.
The first step though is to have support for PieFed communities. Currently it only recognizes kbin/mbin and Lemmy. I'm pushing the update with this, so in about 30 minutes you'll (hooefully) be able to do all that I mentioned.
Done, thanks!