Why not just create the community on another instance?
This reaches the borders of my understanding of the fediverse :) You mean I could create it on Lemmy.ml for example? Would I need to create an account there? I'll explore, thank you for the suggestion.
A little convoluted, but I guess moving things off the big instances is good for the fediverse as a whole, because single instances only scale so far performance-wise. Don't worry about discoverability. It'll take a couple days, but it'll work out fine. You can boost discoverability by searching for your community from bigger instances. That'll kick of federation / synchronisation.
Fantastic, thank you for the steps and explanation!
Don't do lemmy.ml tho, they don't allow free community creation.
And other instances that do, are probably overloaded anyway, honestly.
Thank you for the heads-up!
Mine allows free community creation and is nowhere near overloaded. I also put a lot of effort in maintenance, etc. Shameless plug, I know. But honestly, I don't care if people use my instance or not. I just think we need to spread the load, that's all.
So you won't mind if I register to test some stuff regarding federation? Lemmy.world and ml are getting so hammered, it's impossible to figure out anything, because things keep breaking randomly.
Go ahead!
Ah I saw this only now, otherwise I'd have subscribed to your instance!
Don't worry about it. lol.
Btw., subbed to your new community. I'm a Linux user of 19 or so years and I love everything about it.
Cheers, I hope other people will take over the moderation. Let me know if you're interested :)
I already have my own instance and only so much time! But you'll find someone. You could post over at /c/mod_recruit@lemmy.world to find people willing to moderate. My personal belief is that a Community first needs a little bit of activity before trying to recurit someone.
Yet one more very useful piece of info. Cheers!
You're welcome!
One question: with "main account' on step 3 you mean my account here at Lemmy.world?
I don't quite know how to post in a community on another instance: it doesn't appear if I search for communities here in Lemmy.world.
Yes, the account you mainly want to use. In order to find your newly created community from your current instance (lemmy.world), type the following in the search field:
Edit: That'll make it discoverable from Lemmy.world in the future, btw.
It worked perfectly. I really don't know how to thank you.
Don't worry about it. Glad it worked!
Community names are, by default, limited to 20 characters only. No errors or anything pop up when you exceed that, but you can ask your admins to extend the name limit.
I think that explains it! It had 26 characters.
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I had this problem as well on the mobile web page. It worked from desktop mode.
Thank you for the suggestion. I tried from laptop with Firefox and Chromium, then from my phone (Firefox). But I see the same problem on all.
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/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
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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