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.

    • stravanasuOP
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      31 year ago

      This reaches the borders of my understanding of the fediverse :) You mean I could create it on Lemmy.ml for example? Would I need to create an account there? I’ll explore, thank you for the suggestion.

      • 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.

              • stravanasuOP
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                21 year ago

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

              • @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.

          • 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.

  • ShittyKopper [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Community names are, by default, limited to 20 characters only. No errors or anything pop up when you exceed that, but you can ask your admins to extend the name limit.

    • stravanasuOP
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      31 year ago

      I think that explains it! It had 26 characters.

  • @eramseth
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    11 year ago

    I had this problem as well on the mobile web page. It worked from desktop mode.

    • stravanasuOP
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      21 year ago

      Thank you for the suggestion. I tried from laptop with Firefox and Chromium, then from my phone (Firefox). But I see the same problem on all.