this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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New Communities

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.

1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/[email protected])

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

[email protected]

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

founded 1 year ago
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My vision for this community is a space where people can encourage others to vote with their dollar and with their feet by educating them on the fucked up shit that people and companies are doing. When the community reaches 500 members, mods will also select one "cause" at a time for the community to support.

If this sub grows it will need more mods, so please reach out if you're a perpetually pissed off person. :)

Thanks for joining!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a huge generalization from someone who’s enjoying many of the benefits brought about by activism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

From the text description I was assuming this is boycott-focused. None of the successful past movements I can think of used boycotting specifically. Civil disobedience, labour actions and basically terrorism were more characteristic, off the top of my head. Running for office too, once they'd beaten the old aristocracy down enough to be able to.

The thing is maybe a few percent of the population are activists, so you either have to take advantage of the people that are sympathetic but don't really care or be obnoxious enough on your own that you can't be ignored (for better or worse).