Welcome
Community discovery still needs some improvement. To help broadcast new communities locally or federated, this community will be a place to advertise your community or one you wish to share.
Tools
There are some tools to help discover new communities.
Rules
- Follow Lemmy code of conduct
- Only one community per post.
- Post must follow the formatting template below.
- No spamming of the same community.
Post formatting
Lemmy has specific requirements for searching for communities, posts, comments, etc. Because of this, you must format your post in an easy-to-copy-and-paste way for folks to search.
Post format
The formatting must include the following items in the format shown in a code block below.
Title
Title must include name followed by the community handle.
{community name}: {community handle}
Example:
cat pics: !cat@lemmy.world
Fields
- Community name
- Description of the community or why you're sharing.
- Direct link to the community
- A local/relative link to the community.
- This is helpful to check if the community has already been federated with Discuss.online
Template
# {community name}
## Description
{describe what you like about it and what makes it unique}
## Links
- [Direct link](https://{domain.tld}/c/{community})
- [Local link](/c/{community}@{instance.tld})
Example:
# Discuss
## Description
Random chat topics. Great place to discover new things!
## Links
- [Direct link](https://discuss.online/c/discuss)
- [Local link](/c/discuss@discuss.online)
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