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You should create a community for your team so when people come here looking they’ll find a community ready to welcome them
I've tried to do this but can't seem to find a clear and concise guide. From what I read, only admins can create communities?
It varies from instance to instance. Some restrict community creation to admins, others don't. I also believe you can only create communities on your home instance.
This kind of confusion is why Lemmy will not be even a minor successor to Reddit IMHO. It's fun though, and I'm glad it exists.
It's unlikely to topple Reddit regardless, but so long as the scalability proves functional enough to support recommending lemmy.world to non tech-savvy newbies I don't see this particular issue becoming problematic. Most of the larger recommended instances have open community creation anyway. I guess BeeHaw doesn't but people aren't really recommending it to newbies either.
Ah I didn’t realise you had to be an admin. Maybe reply to the below thread with a proposal for your community
https://lemmy.one/post/41
Check out our baseball community's sidebar for your favorite team. Try searching !baseball@fanaticus.social (and give it a minute if someone on your instance hasn't already found us).
Fanaticus is a sports-only instance. We've ported over a game bot and have created communities for all the major sports teams. If you're interested in moderating one of the communities, just ask!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !baseball@fanaticus.social