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Trying to build critical mass for small communities
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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 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 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:
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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a few others and i are trying to get some of the imaginary network off the ground - the ones i'm particularly fond of are imaginary trains and imaginary dieselpunk, but there's a whole list in the sidebar
unfortunately a considerable chunk went down with lemmy.fmhy.ml, but i'm in contact with the guy behind them and he plans to reopen them soon
Posted one on each community, good luck!
thank you!
(also, i'm flattered that you think i look organised, i'm very new to this so i don't feel organised at all)
Note that I said: "you look a bit more organized than small subs", and that's not a very high bar, hehe :P.
More seriously, I thought you were related to reddit's Imaginary Network, which is huge and with some big power-users.
If that's not the case, then more props to you!
oi! and i thought you were nice
nope, not at all. they're just the only subs i still follow by rss, and no-one else was making them here so i took up that mantle. and now i have 7 imaginary communities... and there are at least 2 more that i want to exist, so i'm hoping someone makes them soon
Thank you for giving the Fediverse some of that Imaginary Network action I crave from Reddit. I tried asking them to move to Kbin and they aren't interested. You and @Martineski have been doing a fine job making quality posts and always citing your sources. I hope Martineski's Imaginary communities come back soon. I want to contribute more to ImaginarySliceOfLife here!
I'd offer my own @FloatingIsFun to join the Imaginary mix, but it wouldn't work because we accept floaty things that aren't fictional and aren't static images. Besides, with that Lemmy/Kbin bug making all my posts appear to come from two hours in the future, I feel like I've already gotten more exposure than I actually deserve.
actually i'm also going to reply to you here just to check my message went through, as i'm not sure if lemmy -> kbin messages work
Then I will include them on my watchlist and will try to post at least from time to time.
As I said in other comments, thanks to all of you who create and moderate communities. For now, I'm just trying to generate content, which I know is the easier part.
thank you, i do appreciate it
well i haven't actually had to do much moderating yet — i've mostly been balancing seeding some content without spamming the local feed; as well as discussing them on matrix, and sometimes promoting them on threads like this when i remember
Indeed, you're doing a great job, thanks for the efforts!
I've been seeing Imaginary Network's posts on my timeline. I thought about including them in the OP, but you look a bit more organized than the usual small subs, so I chose to focus on other parts.