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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.

Image Attribution:

Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Link:

  1. lemmy.world/c/sponsorblock
  2. !sponsorblock@lemmy.world

SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension and open API for skipping sponsor segments in YouTube videos. Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight.

The source code is fully open and the database can be downloaded by anyone. I want to keep this as open as possible! You can view the docs for the public API or host a mirror.

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I use Sponsorblock, enjoy it, and promote it whenever appropriate... but do we really a whole community for that? What do you want to talk about it there?

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 15 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I don't see much point in that either. Sponsorblock related posts could be just part of a general YT related community instead. Segregating into some fringe communities is just going to further lower the content easily available, making the fediverse appear even more empty. Other instances will likely never see those tiny fringe communities because they won't even federate until someone on that same instance subscribes to it.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

What do you want to talk about it there?

Intrigued as well

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

hahaha, interesting, thanks for the questions!

do we really a whole community for that?

Why not.

It is just another new community like many on lemmy.

What do you want to talk about it there?

People can talk about SponsorBlock and the like.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I honestly do not get it. Look at the pinned post: "Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content."

Please, let's not get into this habit of creating communities without having any clear purpose. It only makes things look even deader than they already are.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's because OP is a tankie — possibly a Russian operative — trying to build as many communities to moderate on lemmy as they can, so they can post propaganda in an echo chamber, ban users for wrongthink, and control the narrative.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't find OP in that thread. Is this just conspiracy speculation?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

OP is the original poster, so https://lemmy.world/u/jimmydoreisalefty

I just had a look at their profiles, the number of communities is quite high indeed.