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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:

!community@instance.com

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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Welcome to Lemmy April Fools ! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by SuperNoice@lemmy.world to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/339130

Hi, and welcome to Lemmy April Fools, a community dedicated to discussing, planning and running Community Events in the Fediverse.

What is Lemmy April Fools:

I guess you've heard of Reddit's r/Place, or The Button? Do you remember The Cube? Have you been part of an ARG before?

If the answer is yes, you know what this community is about. The goal is to discuss and ultimately plan community events through the Fediverse. Be it social experiments, contests or funny games. As long as we're entertaining users and our events are well planned, we're achieving something.

So far, this is only a manifest, and I don't want to outline too much since this is not meant to be a personnal project. But if you too love those kind of events, and would love for the Fediverse to offer some similar experiences, you're welcome here!

Please feel free to share your ideas, or anything you think would be valuable. Even if you're just interested as a player, make your sentiment heard!

In the upcoming days, I'll organize the page, its rules, and write a more official stciky that'll replace this one. In the meantime, thanks for your time reading this, and don't hesitate to post too to voice your opinion. I can't wait to discuss with you all.

I'm sure as a community, we can create some great experiences for everyone to enjoy.

Some background about me:

I feel as the de facto admin of this community, it is my duty to tell you who I am, and why I wanted to create Lemmy April Fools.

As of today, I'm a 28 years old Motion Designer, born in France, and working in a marketing agency in Luxembourg. I'm mostly passionate about music, cinema, plants, video games and cars.. but also and more importantly here, about entertaining and bringing joy to people.

When growing up, I spent a lot of time on the internet, browsing and participating in now defunct forums of the old, pre-reddit days. As I played a lot of Habbo Hotel (I know, I know..) and was always a creatively driven person, I ended-up joining a french forum dedicated to pixel art in Habbo style. I stayed there a couple of years, and ended-up as the lead 'game designer'. My job was effectively to run events and contests through the forum and inside Habbo, which I loved to do and think I did a pretty decent job of.

Many many years later, I'm now grown and bored with my life, and I guess I want to resparkle that love for creating and running events, to see people excited and having fun. I'm not that qualified, but I'm motivated. And I hope that by sharing this motivation here, we'll be able to gather as like-minded people, and that as a group, we can create something entertaining that will bring joy to others.

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[–] cptapathetic@rustyshackleford.cfd 1 points 1 year ago

This is awesome. I would love to see fediverse events like this, maybe even some of the larger instances could coordinate for them.