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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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newcommunities·New Communitiesbyrimu

Several RSS-based news communities

![email protected] - BBC. This contains several feeds in one community, tagged with flair to distinguish between them - use PieFed's "membership" setting on the community to filter out the ones you don't want.

![email protected] - Aljazeera only provides a single RSS feed so it's quite the mixed bag.

![email protected] - RNZ, for a perspective from the edge of the world. Again, use flair to filter out.

![email protected] - positive news stories.

![email protected] - Axios, The Atlantic, etc. Has flair.

Posts in these communities are automatically deleted after 28 days, to avoid cluttering up people's servers. Cross-post them into 'real' communities to discuss them.

PieFed recently added RSS-ingestion functionality - this is not done with an external bot-script thing. If you have some good RSS feeds, make an account on crust.piefed.social and go for it.

You can block @[email protected] if these kind of bots annoy you. All the rss feeds on that instance use the same account.

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newcommunities·New Communitiesbycinoreus

A community to discuss about sortition, a type of governance where officials are chosen by lottery.

Hey, so I've created a community to discuss and talk about sortition, a type of governance where leaders and officials are chosen at random. This was practiced by ancient Athens, and is considered to be much better at representation than normal democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

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A community dedicated to books published by Hollow Press

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/38119890

Hello!

I noticed that there was no community on Lemmy similar to r/vermis, so I created one. It's dedicated to books by Plastiboo, such as Vermis and Godhusk, as well as other books (and games too) published by Hollow Press (Age of Rot, Mock Soul, How to Bake a Breadling, etc.)

If you're interested in offbeat literature, dark fantasy or tabletop RPGs, then I invite you to join!

![email protected]

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newcommunities·New CommunitiesbyOcean

YoTyan — A New Community on Lemmy

Information

This is a community for fans and newcomers to come together around the game YoTyan. Whether you’ve watched the streams for months or are just now finding it, everyone is welcome.

Ask questions, share clips or images, talk about the game, or just hang out and have some fun. No question is too simple, and no level of experience is required.

Let’s build a fun, friendly community for everyone who enjoys YoTyan! https://lemmy.world/c/yotyan


About me

Hi, I go by Ocean online.

I wanted to make a community using Reddit, but it thought I was a bot and I ended up getting shadowbanned. My goal was, and still is, to make a community for people who like YoTyan or !

A place where fans and newbies can ask questions, find answers, share things, or just have fun. I stumbled across this website and figured I’d give it a try here.

Hopefully we can build a fun little community together!

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newcommunities·New CommunitiesbyCorvid_Moon

Ask Vegans now has a Lemmy community!

From the Reddit community of Ask Vegans, now also on Lemmy ♡

If you have questions for vegans and are curious about veganism, this space is for you. Get answers from friendly vegans about questions relating to ethics, health, environmentalism and more! And if you are a vegan who also wishes to engage in this community, you are certainly encouraged to do so. The more who participate, the better!

Hope to see you there ♡

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newcommunities·New Communitiesbyphil

openmic.social — a new free-speech instance that doesn't shadowban

Hey all — just launched openmic.social, a general-purpose Lemmy instance with a specific mission: free speech + transparent, restorative moderation.

The pitch is simple — anyone can grab the mic — and the thing that makes us different is what happens when you cross a line:

  • No shadowbans, ever. If your post is removed or your account is actioned, you're told — what happened, which rule, and how to fix it.
  • We help before we punish. A heads-up and a path back come before a ban. Bans are the last resort, not the first reflex.
  • Moderation in the open. Every call is appealable, publicly, in our !meta community.
  • Hard lines only: nothing illegal, no targeted harassment, no doxxing, no spam. That's what keeps the mic open for everyone.

We're brand new, which means early adopters shape the culture. Come introduce yourself, bring a community that needs a home, or start one — I'll help you set it up and mod it.

🎤 https://openmic.social/

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