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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 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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Another SFW community: [email protected] . Whether you have a large collection or just that one special piece of gear that you love, this is the place for you to show it off.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Is it too late to avoid perpetuating the Reddit culture of adding “Porn” to titles of Fediverse communities?

As you can see in your title and description for this post, you have to stop and reiterate every time that your community is safe for work. It’s just bad branding.

Why not:

sublimeguitars

stunningguitars

pureguitars

guitar-awe

Woah, imagine niche communities of incredible photography that all use -awe, as a suffix. And then there’s an accompanying sister community with -aww as a suffix.

Could have everything cute that features a guitar and a puppy or whatever in guitaraww. And stunning guitar gear and photography in guitarawe.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've honestly never had that much of a problem with the terminology. They're communities for posting titillating and visually stimulating pictures on a theme. Pictures of desirable things - often out of reach for us average people - that provide pleasure just by looking at them. That's pretty close to porn, no?

Maybe I've just not grown up in an environment that stigmatised porn enough to get the objection?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guitars are given names, have human characteristics (voice, curves, etc.) frequently described as sexy. I think guitars and cars deserve porn sites.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

There is also [email protected], if you want to join.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I usually share the opinion that making sexual references to everything is silly, but in the case for the communities that are based on Reddit's "SFW Network", it seems appropriate.

If you think about it, all these communities are just sharing visually stimulating images and are intended to be consumed without significant context. This is pretty much the definition of porn.

If anything, I kind like the idea of having a name in the community that reminds you that of you shouldn't be spending too much time on...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I wish we could leave behind this stupid naming scheme.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I think something is wrong with your link in the OP. The period after "community" is included, which screws the redirect (at least on Sync).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Thank you! Fixed now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"guitar porn"

can we not?