Community Promo

cross-posted from: https://walledgarden.xyz/post/2295733

Hello again All,

I’d like to get everyone up to speed on what’s been going on with walledgarden.xyz and where it’s going in the near future. I’ll keep this as brief as I can but there’s a lot to cover. TLDR at the bottom.

First and most important- As of March 1st 2025 WG will effectively shut down. Local communities will be locked but the instance will stay open for at least all of March so that local users have time to migrate their accounts.

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• Why? What does this mean? WG was initially set up as a private instance to learn about and experiment with Lemmy. With that mindset a lot of things were tested on the live instance before we started hosting communities and users. A new instance or test environment should've been put in place back then, but it wasn't. That's on me and I apologize. Many of these things are difficult or impossible to reverse while the instance is available to the public and are causing stability problems for the users and communities we host. This isn't the experience we want to offer. The difficult decision was made to shutter this instance and start fresh on a new one. We decided that it would be better to offer people a new alternative that doesn't suffer from the same problems we have on WG before the communities or user numbers grow any larger. WG will eventually become the test environment for the new instance.

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• What happens to the users and communities you host? The local users are who will suffer the most from this and for that I am genuinely sorry. Local users will have until at least the end of March to migrate before any kind of reset is done. This should offer plenty of time to get your new accounts setup. If anyone is having trouble shoot me a DM and I'll do whatever I can to help out. Our current users are welcome to join us on the new instance- https://crazypeople.online/. The last few days have been spent launching and populating that instance with new versions of the communities you’re used to seeing around WG. Here’s a list of our local communities and their new homes:

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• Garden Grooves is now The Eternal Playlist: https://crazypeople.online/c/eternalplaylist [email protected]
• weedtime has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/weedtime [email protected]
• Low Effort Memes has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/loweffortmemes [email protected]
• Pokemon TCGM has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/pokemonTCGM [email protected]
• Community Corkboard is now CPO Announcements: https://crazypeople.online/c/cpo_announcements [email protected]
• Auto Racing has moved here: https://crazypeople.online/c/autoracing [email protected]

I encourage those of you who previously participated in our communities to join us again at our new home.

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One final thing to note is that crazypeople.online will not be federated with lemmy.world until after they complete their upgrade. That could be any day now unless they push the date back. The older version of Lemmy they run can cause problems for smaller instances that I’d like to avoid on the new one. This decision isn’t meant to be political or controversial and is based strictly on performance goals.

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TLDR

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• WG is becoming a test instance.
• Users have until at least March 31st 2025 to migrate.
• Replacements for our communities have already been set up at https://crazypeople.online/.
• crazypeople.online will be our public facing instance going forward, open to old WG members and anyone else who needs a place to call home.
• crazypeople.online won’t be federated with lemmy.world until their planned update.
• Don’t test in production.

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Let's put a stop to Loblaws for the actions of price gauging and poor produce quality. We the consumers need to break them up with our dollars as the chain is way too big.

Boycott Loblaws!

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It would be nice to get a few other guinea pig pictures there, so its not just mine.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/avgeeks

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Heyo, i created a community a couple of days ago specifically dedicated to reviving dead (unmoderated and inactive) communities. I realized that a lot of great communities i like are actually unmoderated, and i obviously can't mod them all; so why not create an archive of all of them?

If you have a community that you like, but it is dead: you're more than welcome to post on here!

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I made a community where you can post your DJ / Modular setup!

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Organic Maps is the most private offline map app, it looks prettier than Google Maps and Apple Maps, it leverages data from openstreetmap that you can update easily compared to the competitors, it’s very battery efficient and the best of all its FOSS.

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https://sopuli.xyz/c/HandmadeMarketplace

Want something unique? Maybe even one-of-a-kind? Check out some handmade items from independent artisans! (:

Thought we could use a community for folks who craft handmade goods.

Could be soap, food, sculptures, art, clothes, toys, and all kinds of wonderful stuff!

Hopefully we can get more artisans to join up, and folks who would like to purchase from & support independent artists & craftspeople from all around the world!

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For the excellent book and TV show Wheel of Time fans.

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Lets switch to ethical/FOSS products and services instead!

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Please tell us about all about your encounters that have invoked the emotions of fear, discomfort or unease. There’s always a good creepy story to be told!

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I mod some of these communities on other instances but wanted to provide decentralized alternatives, since that’s the whole point of Lemmy, and explore admining since I enjoy selfhosting :)

Very niche communities but I welcome anyone to join and post.

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Come hangout with us to learn more about the great mobile Linux distro alternatives for your phone.

there’s already [email protected], which i made for english speakers. i also have [email protected] so more portuguese speakers can access it who aren’t users of lemmy.eco.br

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The most recent post there is about the delay between Aussie.zone and LW, up to 2 days

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Come form the next parliament on Lemmy.ca and show everyone how’s it’s done either running a government or being the opposition.

A community for people to congratulate your accomplishments, major or minor.

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[email protected] has a pinned post with links to specific shows communities