A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
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.
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
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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Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
[email protected] That escalated quickly.
Advertised here last evening, then exploded.
Is it possible to block or filter out all communities with a specific term in their name?
Like, I've got a friend who wants to block posts from any community with "meme" in their name.
I think the only way is to do a community all search for “meme,” open up the top 10 or 15, then block each one.
I think if you link your Lemmy and Reddit accounts it filters out all memes automatically. Tell your friend to try that.
I heard the Lemmy devs built in a backdoor that blocks all meme subs if you comment for "the narwal bacons at midnight" 10 times in a row in one of them.
I just block them as they show up. It’s not the best way, but at least I know I get them all. What a shitshow these meme communities are.