this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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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 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/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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The community was started after this post: https://lemmy.ca/comment/5057563

When Reddit was first becoming popular, were it's communities and content basically just clones of other websites like Digg?

Someone mentioned how Reddit used to sockpuppet to fake engagement, and Lemmy DOES need some new and original communities, so here

You can make posts about sockpuppets reenacting real life events using any format you want!

For example:

  • You can doodle on a napkin
  • You can use MS Paint
  • You can use REAL paints
  • You can use generative AI
  • You can use real sock puppets
  • You can pose an old sock in a weird way
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[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 9 points 11 months ago

Ah, yes. The one thing Lemmy was still missing.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

do an AMA, sockpuppeting as someone else

[–] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do they have to be current-day events? Or can we recreate moments from history?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Historical sounds good too, it might be easier and in better taste too

The example post was from the early days of Reddit

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm interested but I don't quite understand it yet - like an RP community except doing news?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

It doesn't have to be current news, I was thinking any events might work

I'm also trying to keep this open to see if it affects community growth, open to seeing what people want to do

[–] sureok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why are napkins included with socks?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry the post was unclear, I just clarified. Doodling on a napkin was an example of post format, to show that it doesn't need to be very detailed :)

[–] sureok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh i see. So much for the napkin puppets. :)

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

What are napkins but unstitched socks