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How to get a community made (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago by Alphadef to c/[email protected]

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Pretty new to Lemmy as a whole. So when trying to decide where to make an account, I ultimately settled on programing.dev as it's ab instance that aligns with my interest, but now that I'm getting a little more used to navigating I'm realizing a minor issue. See, obviously I'm a new convert from Reddit as many are, and I don't expect every subreddit to already be a Lemmy community, but I've realized that by picking an instance that is fairly focused in its scope, if I wanted to try and fill in a gap where a subreddit has not been recreated yet I either need to find a way to get it made by someone else or make additional accounts on other instances. So thusly I am curious, is the former an option? In this case I was hoping to make something along the lines of r/ImaginaryKnights, because fantasy knights and armor are pretty cool, but obviously that's not a programming thing. Any ideas or tips? Hopefully this is a good place to ask.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't need to make account on other instances. The whole point of fediverse is that the instances are all interconnected. You can talk to people from anywhere and post anywhere too, and it will propagate to all the other instances. Like your account is on programming.dev, this post is hosted on lemmy.world, and I'm on lemm.ee, see? It's all interwoven together, that's the main strength of it. So you can have communities (sub alternatives) all over. Some will be doubled (like most instances have Main) but you can always see where it's hosted to know which is which. (sorry if I'm over-explaining it)

That means if you want to make a community about, for example, 6502 assembly, you make it where you are, and people who are interested in the topic will come and discuss, no matter where their accounts are hosted. It would make sense to have a 6502 assembly community on programming-focused instance but it's not mandatory. If I were to make a 6502 assembly community, I'd make an account on programming.dev and create the community there for consistency. And give my main account mod status.
I don't know if this is the "right" way to go about it but it makes sense to me. I'm happy to be corrected.

[–] Alphadef 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the instance my account is on (programming.dev) only the admin can create communities and the only communities being made on the instance are programming related communities, which makes sense. So the point I was curious about was if I wanted a non-programming community if there was any way for me to make it without making an account on a different instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yup, like Elle said, you can request a community be made on another instance so you don't need to make a separate account

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