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'll just remove the 'freamon' one when the auto-generated one is up to date.
The manually-generated one had 5 missing routes, which I've since added.
The auto-generated one at crust has about 48 missing routes. It's the right approach, and I'll help out with it when I can, but - for now at least - it makes no sense to redirect people to it (either automatically or via a comment).
Some thoughts for @wjs018@piefed.social
/site/instance_chooser
probably doesn't need to be a route. It's just the data format returned by/site/instance_chooser_search
. As a route, it's returning the instance info for the site you're querying, so if you want to keep it as a route, it should probably be called/site/instance_info
or something.In the query for
/site/instance_chooser_search
,nsfw
andnewbie
are both booleans. With the rest of the API, these are sent as 'true' or 'false', but they are 'yes' and 'no' for this route. Thenewbie
query should probably benewbie_friendly
In the response,monthsmonitored
should probably bemonths_monitored
There's no way to exclude communities for the response to
/topic/list
and/feed/list
: If you don't put 'include_communities' in the query, it's defaults to True, but if you put 'include_communities=false' in the query it ends up being True also (because the word 'include_communities' is in the data).Thank you
TIL that rimu added instance chooser endpoints. I'll take a look at those before 1.2 gets shipped. Same with the topic and feed endpoints. The easiest time to make changes to them is now before they get more widely used.
I have about 10 more endpoints (working through
/user
right now) I have finished transitioning in a dev branch right now, so we are making progress.