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If you want to see a specific community that doesn't exist, then set it up and post some content! If you want the type of places to hang out that you had on Reddit, you need to create it, nurture it, and grow it. There's no guarantee that Lemmy will be the place to land during the Reddit exodus, but it is a place to land, and a damn fine one at that. Putting my money where my mouth is, if you ever want to talk about calculators head on over to !calculators@midwest.social
Any hint to how to? I mean, there's a reason why community creating is reserved for admins, and is there somewhere a guide doc for creators/mods?
If your instance allows it, you should just have an option to create a community on the front page - some instances prohibit community creation to just their admins. I believe beehaw is one of them, to more or less curate/organize the content there as far as I understand (someone from their team would be able to better explain/phrase it than I have most likely).
Currently, I don't think Lemmy has a way to create communities on remote instances, so if you have a request for a community you'd want to reach out to their team (I imagine https://beehaw.org/c/support is a good place, but don't quote me on that) to see if it is something they'd be interested in.
@JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net Thank you, this can also be info for others. I'm afraid this is going to be community fragmentation anarchy. It's already not easy to find subs without a categorised index ... and then, hopefully there will be ways to move users/subs between servers. But let's see how this matures.
... damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user ...
I believe you can omit tagging someone if you're replying directly to them, but otherwise you've done it the right way (I don't know how to get it to "highlight" the mention in the comment, but I can confirm I did get both a reply and mention notification so despite it not being highlighted it did still work)!
Wow thanks for the reply. Yes i knew i can omit it but wanted to mention both explicitly. That was one thing i never knew on Reddit, if users get notified when i "@" mention them or if stuff got cross-posted when people mentioned the r/sub. I feel a bit idiotic now, although i'm technically knowledgeable. Just not scial media adapted.
It's all good! I feel like I'm constantly learning something new every day (which I'll gladly take)!
I know on Reddit username mentions was a premium feature at some point, but I feel like I heard at some point it got moved to just being a general feature, cross posts required an explicit button click on a post to perform a cross post (similar to how it works here on Lemmy as well).
If you click on
Communitiesand selectAll, it allows you to search for Communities across all of Lemmy-Land, not just the instance that you've signed up on. I think that every instance can have its own separate community with the same name, but in a lot of cases that may even be desirable.As far as moving users/communities between servers, that's Nomadic Identity. As far as I know, the only Fediverse project that implements it is the Zot protocol that Streams and Hubzilla are built on. ActivityPub does not support and it's not on the roadmap as far as I know.
Community search: yes i know and used it. It's just not useful if one doesn't exactly know what keyword to search for. An index by general topc would be nice to have. I was thinking about making a sorting thread but really, a subforum would not be the right place for it.
Migration of data ... well too much OT discussion coming to my mind.
Seems to be a place at least for general discussion on this topic. Such questions have already been asked there.
I don't know what the rules are on lemmy.ml, but some instances let anybody create a new community. There's no guide or doc that I know of, but it's as easy as making a post is. I just looked for a calculator community and couldn't find one, so I made it. If lemmy.ml won't let you make a community, either ask the mods there to approve one, or sign up on an instance that isn't as locked down. You can even make your own instance and still federate with the rest of the Lemmy-sphere.
I created and mod two subs on reddit, and I'd love to see them make their way over here, but I've had a child since creating those subs, and I just don't think I have the time to do it anymore, sadly. Both subs seem on-board with the blackout on the 12th though, so maybe some of their members will find their way here. Maybe I'll even point them here with a sticky on the 12th...
Definitely do a sticky! I'd be doing that for sure if I had your mod powers 😊