Nothing happens when creating a new community

pglpm@lemmy.world to New Communities@lemmy.world – 13 points –

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.

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  • 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.

Fantastic, thank you for the steps and explanation!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I already have my own instance and only so much time! But you'll find someone. You could post over at /c/mod_recruit@lemmy.world 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.

Yet one more very useful piece of info. Cheers!

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.

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:

!communityname@instance.tld

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