How are new communities created on Lemmy?
How are new communities created on Lemmy?
There absence of a few subreddits here in lemmy world are making my experience somewhat incomplete. I was really into r/noiserock on reddit and would like to help re-create that community. It does not seem as straight forward though. Am I only allowed to create communities on my instance? I guess, in general, how are new communities started?
Go to the front page of your instance. Check around the button for "explore communities". If there's a "create community" button, click there. It allows you to create your own comm.
A few details:
- Some instance admins disabled comm creation. For example, lemmy.ml admins did this to encourage people to go to other instances. No idea if your own instance did the same, but it's worth checking.
- You can't create comms outside your own instance. However, you can moderate them just fine. So if you want to create a comm in a specific instance, you could ask someone from that instance to do it for you... or use an alt account. Then recruit you as one of its mods.
Ok, thanks. My instance is reddthat.com (relatively small I believe) and I don't think I see a way to create a community. I will reach out to the instance admin and see if that is currently by design.
If I visit your instance I see the "create community" link at the top of the page as expected. Are you viewing it through an app maybe? They might not have added that feature yet and you might need to use the website.
I did not check the actual website. So that explains it. Thank you.
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Yay for more communities!