In the past two days I’ve been trying to create a community, but without success. I insert the name (with the allowed characters), the display name, and so on. But when I click on create a spinning wheel appears for a second or two, then goes back to create and nothing has happened. I created two communities previously (10 days ago or so) without problems.

I imagine it’s just an effect of the current load for Lemmy.world, but wanted to ask just in case.

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Fantastic, thank you for the steps and explanation!

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Don’t do lemmy.ml tho, they don’t allow free community creation.

And other instances that do, are probably overloaded anyway, honestly.

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Thank you for the heads-up!

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Mine allows free community creation and is nowhere near overloaded. I also put a lot of effort in maintenance, etc. Shameless plug, I know. But honestly, I don’t care if people use my instance or not. I just think we need to spread the load, that’s all.

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Ah I saw this only now, otherwise I’d have subscribed to your instance!

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So you won’t mind if I register to test some stuff regarding federation? Lemmy.world and ml are getting so hammered, it’s impossible to figure out anything, because things keep breaking randomly.

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You’re welcome!

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Btw., subbed to your new community. I’m a Linux user of 19 or so years and I love everything about it.

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Cheers, I hope other people will take over the moderation. Let me know if you’re interested :)

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I already have my own instance and only so much time! But you’ll find someone. You could post over at /c/mod_recruit@lemmy.world to find people willing to moderate. My personal belief is that a Community first needs a little bit of activity before trying to recurit someone.

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New Communities

!newcommunities@lemmy.world

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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.

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

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