Nothing happens when creating a new community

toasteranimation, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

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ShittyKopper, 10 months ago

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.

pglpm, 10 months ago

I think that explains it! It had 26 characters.

eramseth, 10 months ago

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

pglpm, 10 months ago

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.

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

Why not just create the community on another instance?

pglpm, 10 months ago

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.

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

• 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.

pglpm, 10 months ago

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.

NettoHikari, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yes, the account you mainly want to use. In order to find your newly created community from your current instance (lemmy.world), type the following in the search field:

!communityname

Edit: That’ll make it discoverable from Lemmy.world in the future, btw.

pglpm, 10 months ago

It worked perfectly. I really don’t know how to thank you.

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

Don’t worry about it. Glad it worked!

pglpm, 10 months ago

Fantastic, thank you for the steps and explanation!

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

You’re welcome!

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

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

pglpm, 10 months ago

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

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

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.

pglpm, 10 months ago

Yet one more very useful piece of info. Cheers!

WhoRoger, 10 months ago

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

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

pglpm, 10 months ago

Thank you for the heads-up!

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

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.

pglpm, 10 months ago

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

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

Don’t worry about it. lol.

WhoRoger, 10 months ago

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.

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

Go ahead!