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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If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That's not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it's a ghost town and leave.

If you have enough interest to create a community, you probably know something about the subject matter, so PLEASE add some posts (5-10 would be a good start). Maybe some questions to get people talking, even popular reposts from other sites. It sucks shouting into a void, but if you don't do it, everyone else will also be shouting into a void.

Also please consider whether you need to create a community! When there are 100 million users of the site, there may be 1000 people who are interested in the same exact niche tabletop RPG as you, but there are <500,000 users here for now, so you'll be lucky to find 10. Consider creating a thread in a broader community (like boardgames) until you have enough people talking in the thread that it gets messy - then it's time to create a separate community.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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New episodes Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Any travel questions are welcome, they don't have to be podcast-related

I've been traveling a long time and will try to answer you or at the very least point you in the right direction.

if anyone knows how I can automate lemmy posts from RSS feeds, I owe you a case of beer.

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Come join us at Cooking with fire!

Pictured in the thumbnail is an 'Over The Top Chilli' in its latter stages, an indirect cook, also here:

We also just slap meat on the grill:

but it's not just about meat. Veggies on the grill rule too:

If you or anyone you love deeply, with all your tastebuds, likes to cook over fire then come and join us. We are a small, but welcoming community for people who love to cook over a live flame.

HT to @CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al and threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works for pointing me here!

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28113175

They can be including but not limited to mental health resources, physical health resources, career/financial, social, any articles or links or websites welcome in any area of improving one'd life. Post them in !allselfhelpinoneplace@lemmy.world! All are welcome. Life is a circus; let's all be each other's lion tamer. Share what you know so that others may benefit!

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I made this community about a week or so ago on the Lemmy.ca to help promote Canadian music and musicians. Been posting each day, with features in the community such as a ListenBrainz playlist for songs shared in the community, weekly featured artists, and weekly discussion posts (currently paused until Monday to sync it with the start of the week).

This is something I'm incredibly passionate about. Canada has a lot of music talent that is overlooked, and while the amount of Canadian music talent has done nothing but grow, the discoverability for Canadian musicians has faltered in recent years with the decline in local Canadian music publications.

Please come in and share tunes from Canadian musicians, inform people of music tours occurring in Canada, and showcase Canadian music news and magazine articles!

https://lemmy.ca/c/maplemusic !maplemusic@lemmy.ca https://lemmy.ca/c/maplemusic

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It would be nice to create a community for flops here and on Pixelfed too. I'm pretty sure there are at least some of us on Fediverse, and it would be really good to introduce floptok members from tiktok into fediverse as well. Who's interested in helping me with it?

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Hi all. I've just arrived from Reddit - r/Theremin to be exact - and have set up a new community all about the theremin. If you have a Theremin or are just interested in them, please join me. I shall post information there and links to Theremin videos.

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!blood_donors@healthy.community

Very inspired by r/blooddonors on Reddit. Questions about donations, whether from prospective or current donors, welcome!

If you do not see any content you may need to check on the host instance—I have posted 3 things so far.

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This community is to find that game you can’t remember. Like it’s on the tip of your tongue.

Do you remember something about a game, but can't find the title? Do you want to finally know what it is? Post here and maybe someone can help.

Come to find your game, or help others find theirs!

!tipofmyjoystick@retrolemmy.com

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!prb@feddit.uk A community dedicated to documenting, discussing and critiquing overreach of the United Kingdom's Government.

Thought it was relevant considering recent cases of protesters being arrested, online safety act, encryption backdoor requirements being discussed, etc.

I'd like this place to also be neutral in terms of not fighting claiming "we should censor one idea but not the other", but just being posting articles about attacks on free speech and expression in general.

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I often come across ideas for new communities (sometimes I even have them myself), but I'm not always sure whether they would get traction.

How about a "suggest a community" community, where people can post suggestions, and get feedback on the idea, maybe tweak it a bit to be more useful, and also look for co-moderators?

It could act in parallel to !newcommunities@lemmy.world

Anyone have any ideas for how this could work better? Anyone want to co-moderate one?

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Have an appreciation for Pixel Art, new or old? We've got a brand spankin' new community for it over at !PixelArt@retrolemmy.com, a real nice little themed instance that's just perfect for us.

We gots a whole mess of different styles like Vidya game art, fancy smancy modern art just for the sake of it, and even some that move! There's also some free instructional material in the sidebar to help you get started making your very own pixel art, even if you had absolutely no skill in it previously!

If you have some favorites in mind that ya wanna share, well we'd like to see those too, just slap 'em up there. Go on, put yer arm into it. There ya go. :)

Alternative direct link for those who may need it.

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Based on r/coaxedintoasnafu on Reddit, which has become a shadow of its former self so maybe here it could amount to something better who knows

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Based on r/smugideologyman on Reddit, with the blessing of the Reddit community's mods.

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!DoNotSortByTop@lemmy.world

A new idea I had to find actually hot takes.

Post your most controversial takes and follow the usage guide in the sidebar.

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All the ones I've found are dead or quiet.

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!smash@lemm.ee

For the antics of Ron, Becky, et. al.

I don't have grand plans for this community, but the idea popped into my head and the community/instance name combo was too good to pass up. I then spent longer than I should have formatting memes to fit the Lemmy icon and banner dimensions.

!smash@lemm.ee

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!htsdof@lemmy.zip

Other type of link if it doesn't work

Come discuss with us about the HTSDOF series! Season 4 is coming out in three days!

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I am very pleased to introduce you a new photography community dedicated to vintage camera lenses.

!vintage_lenses@viewfinder.pro

The idea is to have a place to showcase our pictures made with vintage lenses, either from digital or analog cameras. Additionally, we welcome technical discussions about the use of this kind of lenses.

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!youdontmattergiveup@piefed.social is a community inspired by !dontdeadopeninside@lemmy.ohaa.xyz and !nosafetysmokingfirst@sh.itjust.works.

YDMGU focuses on text that, when read a certain way, produces a positive message (such as "You Matter, Don't Give Up."), but reading it a different way produces the opposite message (such as "You Don't Matter, Give Up.").


Q. This community is just a cheap knockoff!
A. No, it isn't. The other communities focus more on the layout, and less on the text; the posted content is supposed to be read in a certain direction, but visual cues lead most people to naturally read it in a different direction. The resultant message does not have to make sense. Meanwhile, YDMGU focuses more on the content: the two messages must be opposite in meaning to each other.

Q. Ah, so all YDMGU are either DDOI or NSSF, but not all DDOI or NSSF are YDMGU?
A. Not exactly. DDOI and NSSF are very strict with the layout, but less strict with the content. In those formats, the text must be able to be read horizontally and vertically. Meanwhile, a YDMGU is less strict with the layout: text can be read horizontally, vertically, or potentially even in another manner.

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!Witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca has a new mod. It's a really fun and interesting group of posters curious about all things witchy, supporting women and smashing the patriarchy.

Deffo worth checking it out!

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Created a new community for people trying to make it alone as a business. Come join us!

Let's get building

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by zabadoh@ani.social to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 
 

After some thought, the original group https://kbin.earth/m/2010s didn't have "music" in the actual group name, and therefore wasn't super-obviously a music group, so we're relaunching as https://kbin.earth/m/2010smusic

Apparently in kbin, there's no way to just change a community's name, so the mod had to create an entirely new /m or magazine.

I hope y'all will post your favorite music from the previous decade and help us build our community!

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!elianscript@sh.itjust.works

What is Elianscript? It's an alternative writing system whose properties combine the linearity of spelling with the free-form nature of drawing.

It's also kind of like a weak cipher, to those not in the know. Similar to a pigpen cipher, but instead of randomly jumbling the letters, we all agree to do it alphabetically. That way everyone IN the know, can read it. It's a lock to keep out honest people.

This is quite niche, and some might say it should be part of a larger cryptography community. But really it's more artistic than that, it's not meant to be jumbled or rearranged to make it more cryptic.

Anywho, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do!

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New Ansible comm (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 
 

Hey all, I've created a comm for my favourite infra automation tool: Ansible.

There's one in l.w. but it's been abandoned for a while now and barely has any traffic, so I felt it's a good time to distribute things a while

!ansible@lemmy.dbzer0.com

EDIT: Ignore the thumbnail. Lemmy is bugging out again with the previews.

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