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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Good luck, and thank you for sharing the other communities!
What do you think should happen to ?
Not really sure, I would argue it may make sense to re-direct them to !strategy_games@piefed.world, it was mostly me posting or Elevator crossposting my posts.
I would rather contribute to a piefed community unless a Lemmy community is already established (moves are annoying). For example, some members of !crpg@lemmy.world preferred to stay on LW, so I am not going to rock the boat since it's relatively active.
Makes senses.
@Elevator7009@lemmy.zip, what do you think?
I have zero dog in this fight and will do whatever the majority wants.
Makes sense, thank you.
!strategygames@sopuli.xyz last post was 28 days ago, the mod hasn't been active for 4 months, @Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world should we reach out to @Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to redirect the community to !strategy_games@piefed.world?
For !strategy@lemmy.world , @sparky@lemmy.federate.cc what do you think?
ok so I am a forgetful idiot and made a consolidation post two months ago and did absolutely squat with it, but you might want to check it anyways
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/41783840
To be honest, that sounded familiar ha ha
I'll gladly help, but we consider 4 months still bit fresh - mind trying to contact the mod of that community first?
It's just that consolidation towards a community that has more history is usually nicer than bumping into "most subscribers but no content" community for new users in my opinion. But yeah that's my opinion and the reason why I want you to talk to the mod first if possible. But for sure we are trying to reduce the amount of communities that are not being moderated and I'll help with that. :)
I'm a bit surprised that 4 months is considered fresh, but sure
Hello @Profilename1@sopuli.xyz, Would you consider consolidating your community as explained above?
I don't have a strong opinion on it either way. My preference would be to let the communities exist and develop naturally.
Based on past experience, with the current userbase communities don't develop naturally without an active poster, such as @Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world on !strategy_games@piefed.world
Without such poster, the communities are just ghost towns, such as !oldgamers@lemmy.world
I’ve done this with a few other LemmyWorld communities I had and could be convinced to do the same here, however, it never works out quite well because you can’t properly redirect the old community to the new one on Lemmy. All you can do is post a sticky and hope people notice it, which means you’ll miss most of the users, or delete the community, which means it just goes poof and so users are unlikely to notice. It’s a problem that could use a better solution since the nature of the fediverse generates a lot of duplicate communities.
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world and @Elevator7009@lemmy.zip have been the only posters on !strategy@lemmy.world for at least a month.
With both of them switching to !strategy_games@piefed.world, it's unlikely that !strategy@lemmy.world will stay active.
In my experience, you don't, I regularly see people telling me they found the new community thanks to the pinned post. That is usually people looking for an active community, stumbling upon the old one and finding the new one thanks to the pinned post.