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Fizz ,
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I just find and instance that allows you to create communities. Make an account on that instance then create the communities and make my normal account a mod. Because my instance doesn’t allow communities to be created and I like it to much to switch.

WigglingWalrus ,
@WigglingWalrus@lemmy.world avatar

What makes you like your instance so much you don’t want to switch?

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Because nz is a small place and I like to rep it out in the world.

Da_Boom ,
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Ok so different instances have different rules on who and how communities can be created

  • some require that you ask the admins, and they create it and give you mod priveliges.
  • some allow you to create communities on an ad-hoc basis.
  • some only allow admins to create communities and give no mechanism for users to do so.

Generally you can only create communities in instances you’re apart of, but you can be given moderator privileges for communities across instances, provided the admins of the instance where the community allow it. If you don’t like the community creation requirements of a server? Create an account on another instance and start a community there.

Community names are unique only to the instance they are created on - meaning you might want to do some research and check if the community already exists on other instances.

Otherwise redundancy means different versions of the same community on different instances can have lightly more or less palatable rules and moderators, therefore catering to different people of the same group.

There is talk of adding an option to, on a per user basis allow an option of browsing a combination of communities across instances at once. But it’s hard to say whether this should be incorporated into the backend as an API addition or to let the various frontends implement it based off of the data they can already get from the API.

cyanarchy ,

Holy shit, iusearchlinux.fyi, that’s fucking golden I might have to move.

jennwiththesea ,
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Another thing to look for is whether your community name is already taken, on your instance. (You can use the same name on different instances, but only once per instance. Same with usernames.) Sometimes Lemmy just gives you the spinning wheel of death when something is wrong, but doesn’t tell you what the problem is.

someguy3 ,

Note you can only create a community in the instance you registered in.

Corkyskog ,

But you can subscribe to communities outside? How do I find communities and subscribe to them outside of my instance? I have some, but I think they came during the initial setup.

someguy3 ,

Yes, and I’ve been told you can be invited to mod communities outside your own instance.

Jerboa has a search button, it’s on the webpage too somewhere.

Corkyskog ,

Hmm. Is the search showing me all the communities? It seems like the web page lists communities and I can’t figure out how to actually find them on the app. I search communities and only like 10 come up for any given search term. And then 50% of them just perpetually say “pending” after clicking join

someguy3 ,

Are you using jerboa?

You search for a term and it’ll give you communities with that term. There aren’t many at this point. I’ve heard perpetual pending is a bug, you’re subbed.

Corkyskog ,

Interesting, I just assumed there would be more. Especially for some common topics. Yes, I am using Jerboa.

someguy3 ,

It’s basically a ctrl+f function. There may be more but unless it’s in the community name it doesn’t show up.

2 weeks ago this place was empty.

WhoRoger ,
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Make sure you’re not using any special characters in the name (identifier). Just lower caps letters. Not sure about numbers.

The error message informing you of this is a bit borked.

DevCat ,
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Lemmy.world is kind of overwhelmed right now with all of the reddit refugees signing up.

mysoulishome ,
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Yeah I think that’s why lemmy.ml isn’t adding new users. This is a pretty exciting time… 😀

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