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New Communities

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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 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/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

[email protected]

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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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Pro to c/[email protected]
 

[email protected]

Why new Technology community?

In my humble opinion, none of the existing Technology communities had achieved optimal moderation + fit home server for the community.

To achieve the optimal mix here, moderation would need to be kept to the minimum (Remove non appropriate, spam, bots and off-topic replies and posts) to encourage discussions, as long as it's related to technology and to have it on tech related server.

More importantly, I am trying also my best to keep this technology space commercial free. In my opinion, commercial news organisations don't have anything to do with tech news reporting.

Initially, I will be the only mod till I can appoint other trusted mods.

Hopefully, this community will grow beyond me as a mod and the philosophy behind it will be developed and adapted to other communities as well.

I will take the community members feedback, if any major change or issue happened.

Hopefully, I made my case here about why I think my community is important and how it's aiming to differentiate itself from the other technology communities.

If you found a flaw in the rules or the philosophy, please point it out in the comments.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Erm [email protected] exists and does a fine job at doing what other tech communities doesn't.

[–] Pro 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think so.

Things that don’t fit

  • Minor app updates
  • Government legislation
  • Company news
  • Opinion pieces
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I honestly don't see a niche in which a new community fits. Surely it would be better to help moderate the existing community. Trust me, Lemmy has enough Technology communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] andioop 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Eh, I thought different moderation philosophies were allowed, and as far as I know excluding commercial news is different from the rest given I avoid most tech communities because of all the tech-related-but-not-about-the-tech-itself articles. But my avoidance also means I have not touched every tech community, so if there is one that shares this moderation philosophy I get it.

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