I'm thinking that things are getting to the point of maturity that it'd make sense to have a general rule about this.
Something like:
You're expected to do a little research to see if your new community is very closely aligned with an existing one, and if so, provide at least some statement as to why you're making yours or what's different about it.
It's not to prevent people from making their own communities at all, it's just that it actually helps clarify the promotion of a new community while also helping the community ecosystem.
From what I can tell, !coolguides has a fairly rigid set of rules, with a specific distinction made between guides and infographics. That's great, I like when moderators take an active role in curating the content of their communities.
But I would guess that !coolguides is possibly a response to those rules. Basically if your post got removed from the lemmy.ca community because it was technically an infographic, you could post it to sopuli.xyz community instead.
That's my understanding of the ecosystem, without having spoken to any of the people involved.
thats what this tool does, it lets you search all instances, but the great thing is it lets you choose what instance you are in so that the links open in your instance, instead of having to copy and paste into the search bar like with other search tools ive seen
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lovecraft_mythos
In a weird way I find these kind of jokes nostalgic, because they remind me of when I was a kid reading old comic books, and all the husbands seemed to hate their wives and vice versa.
An idea for people like me that still use reddit alongside lemmy, if you make a post on lemmy, post the lemmy link to the corresponding subreddit. That way if the post gets traction on reddit, all the clicks are leading them to the lemmy post
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