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.
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Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Yes!
Umm… weird question. I guess I still don’t “get” the fediverse. How do I click on the link to view and join your community?
It isn’t marked up by a link in my Memmy app and I’m not sure what to do with it.
Sounds like a problem with Memmy. Does this link work? https://lemm.ee/c/sfah@hilariouschaos.com
You should be able to search communities in your app and could have searched "sfah@hilariouschaos.com" too.
But basically communities on Lemmy are in the form of "name@host". The "name" can be whatever someone wants, and the "host" is the website / Lemmy instance where that community originates from. But because it is federated it's all available everywhere (generally speaking). For example, if you visit https://lemmy.world/c/sfah@hilariouschaos.com it should be the same content just loaded via lemmy.world instead of lemme.ee. However if theoretically someone went and made a "sfah@lemmy.world" community, that would be a completely separate community from the above, hosted on a different Lemmy instance.
Try this https://hilariouschaos.com/c/sfah