Discover new communities

Welcome

Community discovery still needs some improvement. To help broadcast new communities locally or federated, this community will be a place to advertise your community or one you wish to share.

Tools

There are some tools to help discover new communities.

• Lemmy Explorer
• Feddit's Lemmy Community Browser

Rules

1. Follow Lemmy code of conduct
2. Only one community per post.
3. Post must follow the formatting template below.
4. No spamming of the same community.

Post formatting

Lemmy has specific requirements for searching for communities, posts, comments, etc. Because of this, you must format your post in an easy-to-copy-and-paste way for folks to search.

Post format

The formatting must include the following items in the format shown in a code block below.

Title

Title must include name followed by the community handle. {community name}: {community handle}

Example:

cat pics: [!cat@lemmy.world](/c/cat@lemmy.world)

Fields

• Community name
• Description of the community or why you're sharing.
• Direct link to the community
• A local/relative link to the community.
  • This is helpful to check if the community has already been federated with Discuss.online

Template

# {community name}

## Description
{describe what you like about it and what makes it unique}

## Links
- [Direct link](https://{domain.tld}/c/{community})
- [Local link](/c/{community}@{instance.tld})

Example:

# Discuss
## Description

Random chat topics. Great place to discover new things!

## Links
- [Direct link](https://discuss.online/c/discuss)
- [Local link](/c/discuss@discuss.online)