New Communities
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:
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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I looked into it. The moderator is barely active and the community seems dead. With my own community I can curate and grow it knowing I can moderate.
That is not a dead community or inactive moderator by Lemmy standards.
You can help an existing community become more lively by posting or promoting it yourself.
11 posts and 34 comments over three years is not active by my standards. I don't want to post to that community so I've made my own.
The apparent lack of interest you're seeing is probably a reflection of Lemmy's size and the userbase's interest in such a community. Creating a second one is unlikely to help, possibly even making things worse by splitting the userbase, but best wishes to you.
I don't see a userbase to split, there is no content.
Regardless, the link is there so people can decide if they want to try to reboot a community the moderator doesn't even want to help build or maintain.
The existing one is definitely active, I recognise many usernames there. There's a bunch of recent posts too.
There have been six posts in six months and as you can see, two of them were mine, when I tried to reboot it - before I realized the community didn't have an active moderator.
The last post is from more than a month ago.
You can apply to be the moderator of that community if the mod is absent
Instead I made a new community on my home instance.
I wonder why people are complaining about me actively engaging and creating content for the fediverse. If you want to reboot the other community instead of arguing with me, it's linked right here.