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New Communities

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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 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.

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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Regular posters, which communities are you currently focusing on? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 years ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

Basically the title.

In my case, I'm trying to address the regularly brought up issue about Lemmy/Kbin only being about memes, tech and news.

Hence, I'm trying to post regularly on

As we all know, growing a community is hard, but I hope that over time they will become more populated.

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[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Have you tried expanding scope from a specific model to any model from that manufacturer?

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[–] Deftdrummer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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