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.
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I'd love to join but I can't even find it from Reddthat -.-
The disconnect between servers is fast turning out to be Lemmy's biggest problem tbh
I can’t access it either! https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected] gives me a “404: no such community” or something. I’d love to join if I could.
The servers need a bit of time to sync up, especially with these new communities. I am keeping a small text doc to try again later with when they don't work. The more people participate, the more the servers will "talk" and sync. It's early growing pains. I noticed it on Mastodon, but it sped up after more people joined.
Does it work if you search for [email protected]? It should then index it.
Edit: I just noticed there's something weird about this community. It can only be accessed via https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] but not https://lemmy.world/c/childfree. That might be the problem?
It doesn't for me (from lemmy.sdf.org). Odd thing going on here.
In general with Lemmy I don't understand why links to communities can't open in your local webapp. The little dance of navigating through search seems like it shouldn't be necessary technically.
Is it possible the community is literally named that with the @ suffix included? And that confuses other Lemmy instances?
It seems like it, yes.
I think it also confuses the lemmy instance it's on. If you search for lemmy.world in the communities on lemmy.world you see it says "Lemmy.world", but if you search for childfree instead the supposed suffix is shown despite it being on the same instance.
However if you go to the community directly and click on the Link below the title that says [email protected] you end up at https://lemmy.world/c/childfree which is 404.
same on Beehaw
Same for feddit.de. I get the same 404 error and the community does not appear in any search list. :<