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newcommunities·New Communitiesbydystop

[META] Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content.

If you create a community, please try and populate it with content. I see a lot of new communities with 0-1 posts from the mod. That's not nearly enough to get people engaged - users are going to see that it's a ghost town and leave.

If you have enough interest to create a community, you probably know something about the subject matter, so PLEASE add some posts (5-10 would be a good start). Maybe some questions to get people talking, even popular reposts from other sites. It sucks shouting into a void, but if you don't do it, everyone else will also be shouting into a void.

Also please consider whether you need to create a community! When there are 100 million users of the site, there may be 1000 people who are interested in the same exact niche tabletop RPG as you, but there are <500,000 users here for now, so you'll be lucky to find 10. Consider creating a thread in a broader community (like boardgames) until you have enough people talking in the thread that it gets messy - then it's time to create a separate community.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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Community Of The Day

One daily community highlighted to promote established communities you may have missed.

Subscribe to Community Of The Day to get a daily recommendation with a short hint on what to expect from the community.

The community is driven by a bot, you can submit candidate communities via DM (see community sidebar) and the bot will put it in the queue. Please use ![email protected] to promote fresh communities. ![email protected] is rather intended for established but maybe underrated communities.

We are looking forward to your feedback on how to improve this community. Bear with us while we try to get it going.

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newcommunities·New Communitiesbysam

🪸 [email protected] - FINALLY! A community for ocean lovers, marine biology, and all things aquatic

I have absolutely no idea how this gap has existed in Lemmy for so long, but ![email protected] is here to fill it! I've been a Lemming for many years, and I've never seen a marine community pop up.

So, whether you’re a marine biologist, tide-pool explorer, scuba diver, aquarium hobbyist, or just someone who loves ocean photography and marine conservation, this community is open to you!

Edit: I was a little over zealous when I wrote "I've never seen a marine community pop up". From my conversation with [email protected] in the comments:

"But you’re absolutely right – I completely forgot about !ocean when writing this post. I shouldn’t have said I’ve “never seen a marine community”. Though, it is fairly inactive like you said. And this is the Fediverse! A little decentralization never hurt anyone ;) I perfectly happy to run alongside and support “competing” communities"

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newcommunities·New CommunitiesbyHibiscus19

Biker in France ? We have a new hangout area

Hello, I am new here and I just want to introduce myself and my Community - BikersClubFrance We have a group on Facebook and it has never really suited our club which was originally an old style forum. It will be difficult to convince our members to move over to here but I have to try. The group is the main reason I am on Facebook and I don't like being there...I'm sure many of them don't either. We share experiences, organise bike trips, meet ups and use the group to ask bike related questions. So, if you are a biker, motard, pillion, Anglophone and live or ride in France, please come and hang out in this space from time to time. You may be a biker and own a gite or B&B... We can dedicate a post to accommodation. You may break down and need a garage to fix your bike, new contacts around France would be useful. We look forward to welcoming you. The Community hangs out here:

https://europe.pub/c/BikersClubFrance

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newcommunities·New Communitiesbysam

Moved Reptiles and Amphibians community from mander.xyz to r1b.it!

With mander.xyz being down for the past couple months, a huge gap has been left in the Fediverse for herpetology enthusiasts, reptile keepers, and field herpers.

To help reconnect our community, I’ve launched ![email protected], a quiet, nature-focused space dedicated to cold-blooded creatures of all kinds!

Whether you’re looking to share field observations, show off bioactive enclosures, post photos of native frogs and snakes, or discuss care advice, you’re very welcome here.

⚠️ IMPORTANT! If/when mander comes back online, I fully encourage you all to go back to it -- it's an absolutely wonderful instance. I'd love it if some people used both, but I don't expect everyone to.

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newcommunities·New CommunitiesbyDie4Ever

Moved Ecospheres community from mander.xyz to slrpnk.net, and a guide to help you make your own ecosphere/jarrarium!

![email protected]

mander.xyz went down and doesn't seem to be coming back, so we're recreating this community. I'll crosspost the original posts to here over time to fill it up and then I have some new posts to make with my ongoing jarrariums.

Everyone grab a jar and scoop stuff out of your local pond to join in! Here's a guide with a lot of info, but you really can just scoop stuff and not overthink it.

https://ecosphere-guide.pages.dev/

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newcommunities·New Communitiesbysam

🌱 [email protected] – a slow, nature-themed space for quiet conversation

Hey! I’ve just spun up a fresh micro-instance (r1b.it) built around a slower, more human-centric pace, and I'm launching its first main community: croak.

It's a cozy, low-pressure corner meant for general musings, unhurried chats, and sharing whatever is on your mind. It's basically a staging ground for r1b.it's culture as the userbase grows. I don't really have a plan for r1b.it, so if you feel like the Fediverse is missing something, I'd be happy to host it here (just come tell me about it in !croak). The server can go in whatever direction and fill whatever niches the people want :)

So, whether you want a quiet place to hang out, test out federation across a new node, or just drop by to say hello, I'd love to see you there.

🔗 Universal Link: [email protected]

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