this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024
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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 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/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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Loops is now in public beta, you can join up. They've got good stuff there, post things you like here.

Join us at !loops@midwest.social

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like a neat idea. Do you know if it's possible to embed loops videos in a Lemmy post? I just browsed the community a bit, and I think I would enjoy it more if I didn't have to click twice on every post.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago

That's a good question, I'll try embedding them. I know Loops is planning on Fediverse integration and I imagine at some point everything will gel nicely, but there's no ETA on that integration that I'm aware of.

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Please just use !loops@midwest.social and not [!loops@midwest.social]()

[–] m_f@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was told on another post that doing it this way works better for mbin users 🤷

Is there one format to rule them all?

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

No.

If you wanted to get the majority, you'd use the way I mentioned.

Or you can just have two links, one for lemmy (the way I've done it) and one the way you've done it for mbin/kbin users.

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We should have joined force I'm the moderator at !loops@lemmy.world but it's cool to see loops get some more attention tho! :)

[–] m_f@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could be wrong on this, but that looked like it was more about discussing Loops, the project. Seemed like would be annoying to spam it with lots of videos from loops

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well it's a new community, so there is no clear path for now, but I get what you're saying, i should have made a better description !

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based on some of the comments so far, some people really don't like the videos, so it's probably good to have separate communities for discussion of Loops vs posting loops. People can block this community and still subscribe to !loops@lemmy.world

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Seems like a good idea then, i'll update the bio and link to your community :)

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it take a while to get the email after signing up? I tried to create an account. I find the tiktok experience interesting enough to try but was always put off by how intrusive their algorithm seemed.

[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago

It took me a few hours to get the email. I saw somewhere that they're sending out ~1 email/sec.

For better or worse, there's currently 0 algorithm. You can have any algorithm you want, as long as it's "Newest". I sort Lemmy like that anyways so it's great for me. No idea if they've got other algorithms planned.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] BonerMan@ani.social -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Eh... Midwest. social is run by a power tripping disrespectful person.

[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I’m not familiar with midwest.social, what did the person running it do?

[–] m_f@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago

I haven't had any negative interactions with him. I know over on this post about the doxxing of Nick Fuentes, he edited the post to add "Report all you want. This is not getting taken down. Fuck nazis.", but I see that as an advantage of the Fediverse vs Reddit. Instance admins can decide what their instance allows, instead of everyone needing to follow what's socially acceptable to advertisers.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What did they do?