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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/community@instance.com)

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

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

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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Just remember a few weeks ago people complaining about memes communities being overwhelmed with political content, so thought this one could use some promotion

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[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice try but again just because you dont like it, doesnt mean your censorship will result in anything other than silencing marginalized people's perspectives, while allowing the status quo to go unchecked. Everything's political.

Attached image addresses noone specifically, but rather that dynamic and faux-enlightenment.

https://roguenegro.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dear-white-boys.jpg

https://roguenegro.com/2016/04/21/politeness-is-a-strategy-for-people-with-less-power-to-remain-safe-from-further-harm-by-people-with-more-power/

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

silencing marginalized people’s perspectives

Lemmy.world top of the day (https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopDay)

  • first post about pirates and history
  • green text criticizing consumerism in PC gaming: political
  • late stage capitalism post about the 1%: political
  • 196 meme about being laid off: political
  • green text about Harry Potter
  • comic about getting a child and learning them life
  • post about Trump and the Washington Post cartoonist: political
  • shitpost about captcha
  • political meme about Trump and Elon in Lotr scene: political
  • screenshot about abortion: political
  • shitpost about not being able to afford hunting gear: political
  • screenshot about Grok, the Musk AI, name origin: political
  • comic how hard life is and only leads to death: political
  • 196 meme about anxiety: political
  • shitpost meme about living in a totalitarian clown world: political
  • meme about Republicans, climate change and the Titanic: political
  • greentext about washing chicken
  • shitpost about a hotdog picture
  • wholesome meme
  • meme about 14 years old in the middle ages

Out of the top 20 posts of the day, 11 are political.

Do you really think that having a single community that would not have political content can be considered censorship, and would impact the amount of political content available on this platform?

I skimmed though the article you linked, and I would agree we should avoid faux-enlightenment if applied to the whole platform. Here, it is only about one single community, which will definitely be dwarfed by the rest of the political communities.