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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Why not just create the community on another instance?

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This reaches the borders of my understanding of the fediverse :) You mean I could create it on Lemmy.ml for example? Would I need to create an account there? I’ll explore, thank you for the suggestion.

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  • Create an account on another instance (I suggest a smaller one, to spread the load)
  • Create a community using that account
  • Post or comment in that community with your main account
  • Use the newly created account to promote your main account to moderator in the community
  • Profit

A little convoluted, but I guess moving things off the big instances is good for the fediverse as a whole, because single instances only scale so far performance-wise. Don’t worry about discoverability. It’ll take a couple days, but it’ll work out fine. You can boost discoverability by searching for your community from bigger instances. That’ll kick of federation / synchronisation.

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Fantastic, thank you for the steps and explanation!

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One question: with "main account’ on step 3 you mean my account here at Lemmy.world?

I don’t quite know how to post in a community on another instance: it doesn’t appear if I search for communities here in Lemmy.world.

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Community names are, by default, limited to 20 characters only. No errors or anything pop up when you exceed that, but you can ask your admins to extend the name limit.

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I think that explains it! It had 26 characters.

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I had this problem as well on the mobile web page. It worked from desktop mode.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I tried from laptop with Firefox and Chromium, then from my phone (Firefox). But I see the same problem on all.

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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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