New Communities
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found 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/[email protected])
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.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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I keep wondering what's the official way to link. I've seen these you're showing, but also [email protected] which, as shown here, can automatically be converted into a web link format.
And then individual posts? If you crosspost, it shows just a web link again.
I'm not exactly sure what the best way is, but the example you showed there sends you to the Beehaw site, but the formatting mentioned in this crosspost would make accessing the community, regardless of your instance, in this case lemmy.world easier, and would just make it easier to subscribe and view communities universally.
The formatting does not work in the web link field though, so I just use the original link in the web link field and put the universal link in the body field.
I'm not really sure if there's an official way to link on Lemmy though at the end of the day
If you start typing ! and community name, it starts autofilling matches (at least in browser). So I'd assume the ! for coms and @ for users would be the official way, and I've seen admins use it, but it's not ideal and kinda inconsistent. Maybe the devs will clean it up officially.
Frankly I'd be fine just doing c/ and u/ like like on Reddit with automatically changing to links, just with @ for instance.