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Discover new communities

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Welcome

Community discovery still needs some improvement. To help broadcast new communities locally or federated, this community will be a place to advertise your community or one you wish to share.

Tools

There are some tools to help discover new communities.

Rules

  1. Follow Lemmy code of conduct
  2. Only one community per post.
  3. Post must follow the formatting template below.
  4. No spamming of the same community.

Post formatting

Lemmy has specific requirements for searching for communities, posts, comments, etc. Because of this, you must format your post in an easy-to-copy-and-paste way for folks to search.

Post format

The formatting must include the following items in the format shown in a code block below.

Title

Title must include name followed by the community handle. {community name}: {community handle}

Example:

cat pics: [[email protected]](/c/[email protected])

Fields

Template

# {community name}

## Description
{describe what you like about it and what makes it unique}

## Links
- [Direct link](https://{domain.tld}/c/{community})
- [Local link](/c/{community}@{instance.tld})

Example:

# Discuss
## Description

Random chat topics. Great place to discover new things!

## Links
- [Direct link](https://discuss.online/c/discuss)
- [Local link](/c/[email protected])

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If you have, or want to post a new community, you might want to add it to Lemmy Federate too. This way loads of servers' bots will automatically subscribe, and the communities' posts will show up in anyone's "All" feed on the participating servers (of which there are loads).

https://lemmy-federate.com/

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Discuss.Online instance uses lemmy federate for all communities. This shouldn't be necessary for anyone already on Discuss.Online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I actually manually added some discuss.onlime communities. If they were already on there, it wouldn't let me add them. So apparently it's not working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Communities on Lemmy Federate are updated every 24-48 hours. You can re-add existing communities to force immediate update. So it's a valid action.

/cc @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! After I updated my configuration, I saw that the communities were queued for processing. I'll keep an eye on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'll look into it and see if I can find anything amiss!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It was linked with fediseer and was configured to only work with endorsed instances. I've disabled the fediseer option. I hope it works better now!