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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:
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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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I'm the most active postee there (hello again). I prefer LW's gaming community for a few reasons, a lot of which are kind of petty but still.
I dislike the shitjustworks domain name, I think it'll hamper community growth when a casual user base joins and thinks it's a dumb name
The people there often mirror /r/games posts, there's nothing wrong with that and I enjoy browsing it, but I enjoy the more quality over quantity of LW's community
games@lemmy.world has clean icons and branding which is cool
But mostly it's just reluctance to move away from the largest gaming community in Lemmy. Content is hard to find, and I talked about this many times, leaving LW communities means splitting the userbase even more and wondering where the content is. People are tired of migrating and just want to post and discuss. If having a large instance causes technical issues, that's more of Lemmy's problem IMO.
Hello,
Thank you for commenting!
I agree with you with points 1 and 2.
Agreed on discoverability, that's why we now have those threads, and that !newcommunities@lemmy.world is featured at the top of LW's home page.
On the other hand, sometimes it's a bit frustrating. !movies@lemm.ee is now more active and with more content than the LW version, but some people still keep posting to it, while we offered moderation position to anyone who would like to (looking at you, !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), and Lemm.ee is a well established instance with a neutral domain name.
I moved !casualconversation@lemmy.world to !casualconversation@lemm.ee , left a pinned post there so that people could find the new community, it's more active now that it used to be on LW.
Anyway, that's it for me, again thank you for your comment.
Additional small comment: just had a look at the community, well done for the AMA with the game developer!
To be honest, this community seems nice and we'll run, my comment was more targeting at LW communities almost "name squatting", which is definitely not the case here, well done!