In the past two days I’ve been trying to create a community, but without success. I insert the name (with the allowed characters), the display name, and so on. But when I click on create a spinning wheel appears for a second or two, then goes back to create and nothing has happened. I created two communities previously (10 days ago or so) without problems.

I imagine it’s just an effect of the current load for Lemmy.world, but wanted to ask just in case.

  • Netto Hikari
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    71 year ago
    • Create an account on another instance (I suggest a smaller one, to spread the load)
    • Create a community using that account
    • Post or comment in that community with your main account
    • Use the newly created account to promote your main account to moderator in the community
    • Profit

    A little convoluted, but I guess moving things off the big instances is good for the fediverse as a whole, because single instances only scale so far performance-wise. Don’t worry about discoverability. It’ll take a couple days, but it’ll work out fine. You can boost discoverability by searching for your community from bigger instances. That’ll kick of federation / synchronisation.

    • stravanasuOP
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      31 year ago

      Fantastic, thank you for the steps and explanation!

      • @WhoRoger
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        41 year ago

        Don’t do lemmy.ml tho, they don’t allow free community creation.

        And other instances that do, are probably overloaded anyway, honestly.

        • stravanasuOP
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          21 year ago

          Thank you for the heads-up!

        • Netto Hikari
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          21 year ago

          Mine allows free community creation and is nowhere near overloaded. I also put a lot of effort in maintenance, etc. Shameless plug, I know. But honestly, I don’t care if people use my instance or not. I just think we need to spread the load, that’s all.

          • @WhoRoger
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            21 year ago

            So you won’t mind if I register to test some stuff regarding federation? Lemmy.world and ml are getting so hammered, it’s impossible to figure out anything, because things keep breaking randomly.

          • stravanasuOP
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            21 year ago

            Ah I saw this only now, otherwise I’d have subscribed to your instance!

      • Netto Hikari
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        21 year ago

        Btw., subbed to your new community. I’m a Linux user of 19 or so years and I love everything about it.

        • stravanasuOP
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          21 year ago

          Cheers, I hope other people will take over the moderation. Let me know if you’re interested :)

          • Netto Hikari
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            21 year ago

            I already have my own instance and only so much time! But you’ll find someone. You could post over at /c/[email protected] to find people willing to moderate. My personal belief is that a Community first needs a little bit of activity before trying to recurit someone.

            • stravanasuOP
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              11 year ago

              Yet one more very useful piece of info. Cheers!

    • stravanasuOP
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      21 year ago

      One question: with "main account’ on step 3 you mean my account here at Lemmy.world?

      I don’t quite know how to post in a community on another instance: it doesn’t appear if I search for communities here in Lemmy.world.

      • Netto Hikari
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        1 year ago

        Yes, the account you mainly want to use. In order to find your newly created community from your current instance (lemmy.world), type the following in the search field:

        [email protected]

        Edit: That’ll make it discoverable from Lemmy.world in the future, btw.

        • stravanasuOP
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          21 year ago

          It worked perfectly. I really don’t know how to thank you.