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If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That's not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it's a ghost town and leave.

If you have enough interest to create a community, you probably know something about the subject matter, so PLEASE add some posts (5-10 would be a good start). Maybe some questions to get people talking, even popular reposts from other sites. It sucks shouting into a void, but if you don't do it, everyone else will also be shouting into a void.

Also please consider whether you need to create a community! When there are 100 million users of the site, there may be 1000 people who are interested in the same exact niche tabletop RPG as you, but there are <500,000 users here for now, so you'll be lucky to find 10. Consider creating a thread in a broader community (like boardgames) until you have enough people talking in the thread that it gets messy - then it's time to create a separate community.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

New comm at [email protected] - a community for posting silly memes about the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit - whether books, movies, cartoons, series, games, or miscellanea!

Why leave Dbzer0?
In general, I've been eyeing leaving Lemmy in general for Piefed for a while, mostly over the concerning behavior of the Lemmy devs in enforcing genocide denial on their flagship server.

As for this move specifically, however, I've had some tension with Dbzer0 the past few months. Originally I mostly shrugged it aside. They're anti-electoralists, I'm not, it's whatever, it's the Fediverse, we don't have to agree. I preferred to move LOTRmemes to Dbzer0 initially for decentralization reasons, and at the time the admins hadn't given me much in the way to distrust them.

I was recently banned from Dbzer0 for a false claim made by some poster who loves to talk about me, and then proceeded to spread the additional easily disproven lie that I was transphobic and refused to use neopronouns over my interactions with a user called Drag - both of which are demonstrably untrue claims which I confronted the poster on previously; the admins apparently don't give a shit how many times this happens, but downvoting that aforementioned poster when they say something objectionable is against the rules. Apparently, downvotes are forbidden if it's a poster the admins like to asspat.

Funny enough, I was actually assured that both the main admins at the time of the controversy with Drag were broadly onboard with my opinion - ie that I was willing to use Drag's pronouns, but didn't regard that as carte blanche to force people to call dragons real. Guess that's transphobia too - or maybe they've changed their opinions since to suit.

However, the behavior of the admins has gotten to the point where I'm really through with the whole instance, and getting a 7-day instance ban for bullshit from a poster that they regularly permit to spread blatant lies was just the last straw.

Banning people for being anti-AI, removing criticism of the admins' own behavior (including, ironically, in YePowerTrippingBastards), hiding the ability to check mods in the modlogs, handing out bans despite breaking no rules but being a 'turbolib' for arguing for anarchist harm reduction, removing posts for 'badjacketing' for anyone making an accusation (except, of course, for people or accusations they like), the idea that preventing Nazis from getting into office is good is 'reactionary' and removal-worthy, banning discussion of Blahaj's policy of banning people in other comms from YePowerTrippingBastards, trying to force through refederation with Lemmygrad, of all places - it's pretty clearly not for me.

So, you're all welcome to make the move with me, or you're welcome to stick around there, of course. The dbzer0 comm will need new mods, but mods are a dime a dozen, honestly, so my departure there is no great loss to the comm. All up to personal preference - but I sure as shit won't be posting there anymore, even after the instance ban expires.

And, predictably, this announcement was deleted on the dbzer0 comm by the admins.

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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Former Redditors may be familiar with the AquaSwap subreddit, one of the most active places online to buy, sell, trade, and give away aquatic life and related goods. I created a Lemmy replacement.

[email protected]

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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

[email protected]


Link fixed.

I will add more content over time, because I don't want to spam the feed. I am happy and thankful for any contributions. 😊

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

No affilation with r/Vermintide, FatShark or anyone else

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/fatsharkgames

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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello Fediverse!

I'm happy to announce the Single Purpose Devices community on Lemmy, a place for discussion, sharing of ideas and recommendations about the growing trend of single purpose devices: rather than relying on a smartphone that brings you anxiety and demands attention, how about going back to the days of carrying a MP3 player, a notebook and pen and a beautiful camera?

While people join this movement for a variety of different reasons, from reclaiming digital privacy, to mental health, to evading anti-customer repair policies and malicious software updates, we can all share our own experiences and tips. See you there!

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I really enjoyed the Seed Swap community on Reddit, and gotten a lot of good trades from people there. I haven’t seen one pop up here yet, and I wanted to continue sending/receiving seeds, so I went ahead and created one.

[email protected]

For anyone wanting to trade extra seeds, or request specific seeds, hopefully this will be our community.

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Dubvee went offline before we could decide and move the community which just has been moved to Dubvee not more than three weeks ago. Therefor we couldn't announce where we move to which I'd like therefore to do with this post.

The new community is: [email protected]

Background:

  1. https://piefed.jeena.net/post/204063
    2.https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49080279
  2. https://piefed.jeena.net/post/205297
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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

No matter the ball type or style you play, get a grip, fake a throw, and dodge a ball, here at the dball community for all. https://lemmy.world/c/Dodgeball

I first began playing dodgeball at the age of 14 in 2001 at after school free play events, and the hosts got the inspiration to get the ball rolling from the NES Super Dodgeball video game. At the time, I was completely unaware of any existence of competitive events for the sport, but 12 years later, I was selected to represent my country on the international level, and I've now gained experience with the sport in 7 countries.

I'm ready to return to Ukraine, to help them stay active and healthy through the sport of dodgeball, and to help them practice their English. In 2021 I hosted a few English speaking clubs and dodgeball practices in Odesa, Ukraine. I recently released a free downloadable early access alpha version of a simple 2D video game about dodgeball and idioms, to help people who are learning English, and having proceeds of game sales to create more dodgeball events and English speaking clubs in Ukraine, and more, which you can read more about on this Lemmy post at https://lemmy.world/post/33040433

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I made this community so I had a place to post stuff without spamming up other comms.

[email protected]

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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

!modabuse_[email protected] (new instance, I hope it'll stay faithful to what it states)

Made this community after a few disagreements with the mod/admin policies on [email protected]

And [email protected] seems mostly trolls

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey all! Me and Lemmy's official big brother @[email protected] have revitalised [email protected] We have a mix of wholesome comics, memes and chat topics. Come see us for a safe space of positivity and joy 😊

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello friends,

Seeing a lack of a generalized video game meme community, I made one: [email protected]

ETA: Proper link, as required by rules

I'm new to forum moderation so if anyone spots anything in the rules or sumn that needs changing, I'm happy to make changes. Hopefully this can be a headache-free place for video game laughs and lighthearted discussions. :D

Feel free to make suggestions for icon/banner too, haven't thought of what to use for the banner yet...

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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

here is the community, the list of words is on the first post as it's a minimalist language

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community for aardman (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

[email protected], since i'm starting to become a fan of shows like wallace and gromit.

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Instance agnostic link: [email protected]

I posted that DIY mental health resources folder but tbh it's probably just better as a community. I picked dbzero honestly mostly because it has a wiki function but also it has a pretty strong neurodiverse community. This is a more specifically skill-based group than just a general support group (although that's not discouraged). I just think it's an area that most support communities don't offer and that I think people could use.

Wiki | Matrix

[email protected]

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Action Movies (piefed.social)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hi all,

I created a new community for action movies: [email protected]

Feel free to post and comment on action movie news, reviews, trailers, legit full movie streams and more.

Welcome post

Free, legal streaming action movies & shows

Lemmyverse links provided so that you can view those posts on your own instance, fingers crossed :)

screenshot of Action Movies community

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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/lgbtq_plus_christianity

this is probably gonna be controversial, but i mean this for people who actually follow christ's teachings and not to be a cesspool of homophobia and transphobia.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

[email protected]

Come post your armored anime (or adjacent) and swords and stuff pictures!

Rip lemm.ee

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New Communities

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

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The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances 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/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

[email protected]

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.

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