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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What was the drama? I'm out of the loop
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728
This just makes me sad. So I have to decide now - enjoy the fantastic comms on db0 or to have access to the biggest community of my region and language but not both?
I just wanted a nice, enjoyable thing to do and engage with after reddit, practice my French, have a laugh about some innocent memes, and have some interesting interactions with like-minded people, but now I'm marked as a Nazi and Zionist just because of the instance I chose to create an account on?
It honestly hurts to read all that vitriol. To be thrown into the same pot as people I despise the most. I just came back from a protest against the AfD a few weeks ago, for heaven's sake, and now I'm considered a Nazi myself.
Maybe I need to disengage from Lemmy, too.
You could have the best of both worlds by joining a neutral instance or selfhost one and tailoring your feed.
The lemmy client voyager allow you to easily switch between accounts
Zionism is a supermasist genocidal ideology like Nazi. People don't means literally Nazis when refering to Zionists just like people do not mean literal nazis when talking about white supermasist.
I don't consider you a zionazi unless you start defending zionism. You can lose grants in Germany for supporting BDS
In 2023 and 2024, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) classified the BDS movement as a "suspected extremist threat"
How can I trust people in Germany to be able to allow mentionning that some europeans products on lemmy?
Or you could change instance. If your admins are this adamant about Zionism and stopping anti-zionist voices, why would you want to stay there?
There are French instances like jlai.lu and tarte.nuage-libre.fr if you want to practice your French.
This is the power of the Fediverse, we aren't limited to one instance or set of administration policies.
I could do that, and I ~~may~~ most likely will. I would be more enthusiastic about it however if I had actually personally encountered the issues as criticized.
The users I interact with are normal people, the political differences I encounter are usually about the sensibility or implementation of certain policies, not about whether a genocide is happening in Gaza (which I find is undisputed, just to make my position clear).
What I HAVE seen (in real life) is people being unsure about whether (or how) to speak out against the Israeli war machine because they are afraid of being branded racists, but that's a German problem due to our history and people conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism, not one specific to the instance.
If you are looking for another German instance, https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is great, they offer a few other services at https://tchncs.de/
Thank you, I'll consider it!
I get what you're saying and agree to some extent, but for local and language-specific instances in particular losing access to /local really does suck.
Sorry to hear. Hope the protest was good.
We had a fantastic time, thanks. It was small but it was good to see the neighborhood come together against the fascists.
Good to see indeed!