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 title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities 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'm not saying this to crap on your community—I'm just genuinely curious. Why make a community that's just an RSS feed when I can just subscribe to the RSS feed of the website?
It enables you to use Lemmy as your RSS reader.
You could always add all the feeds to your RSS reader including the Lemmy communities, but now you can do the other way around, even if you don't habitually use RSS.
Crowd sourced curation is always nice
Yeah this doesn't make much sense to me either. The sudden influx of duplicate posts across Lemmy over the last couple of days makes it seem a little weird.
Can you give some examples? I don't want it to become botspam. If the RSS bot is creating duplicate postings, then I may need to fix or adjust something.
Speaking as the operator of u/Auto_Post_Bot@social.packetloss.gg ... I think it's kind of inevitable with the current design of lemmy for folks that browse "all" instead of subscribed ... and in some cases local.
As an example, Auto_Post_Bot posts news post to !zed@lemmy.world and !zed@programming.dev (the latter is recent per request from the admin over there, as they don't want centralized communities)... So if your instance is "subscribed" to both, it's going to be a "duplicate" post in the "all" feed.
On lemmy-ui if both posts are both "visible" in the feed they will be compacted into one post if they share the same link meaning there wont be a duplicate post (unless you paginate and theyre on different pages)
Some other frontends such as sync dont do this though but they really should
That's kind of a strange design choice itself because it means that one community is kind of "hidden" ... but only sometimes.
Very interesting though, thanks for sharing that.
The links to the other posts show up below in a cross-posted to section so you can still access it if you want. The limitation on it needing to be the same page comes from this handling happening on the frontend instead of the backend. Ideally imo backend should handle it like how it handles the cross-posts displayed when looking at the post itself
Yeah, I've been thinking it might make sense for Lemmy post to be ... almost "tabbed" when they're link post. So if the link for several different posts is the same you end up with "tabs" for the other communities, that swap you between the titles, descriptions, and comments sections from those communities (and possible a "merged"/"all" tab that lets you see comments from all communities).
Probably a toggle somewhere for "just communities I'm subscribed to" vs "all communities my instance knows about" as well.
I'm not sure how exactly to make that look pretty, but I'm confident it can be done.