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Lemmy.ml removed the ability to create communities to (I believe) encourage using other instances. You can create a community on other instances still - like lemmy.world, for example.
But please create it somewhere else than lemmy.world as well as it’s by far the largest one. Gotta distribute and disperse across fedi!
The longer I stayed on Lemmy.world, the more I realized how counter-productive everyone migrating to the biggest, most popular instance was. They should be actively encouraging new users in the Fediverse to explore
I actually made a new account today on .ca for that reason. I have had a .world account for two months now but they’re having some growing pains so I figured I’d do my (tiny) part to help distribute the server loads a little better.
It’s good admins of .world for finally ceasing the creating of new communities.
I’ve been floating between .ca, shitjustworks, dbzer0 and kbin for the last few months before I settled on .ml. I like being given the choice of what content I want to see, on the platform that I like most
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Hopefully lemmy.world does the same tbh
And how are you supposed to do that without an account on that other instance? Genuine question.
I don’t want to migrate accounts just to create a community; something that isn’t even properly possible yet.
@Atemu @OverfedRaccoon Perhaps ask someone on another instance who has a shared interest in the subject to create it for you? Or create a “burner” account on another instance.
I’m up to 4 accounts because none of this shit is stable or scaling well. It’s a mess.
Lots of smaller instances to make a community on, try to use the decentralized nature of the fediverse
There are a few programming based instances, I’m sure any of them would be great to host the community
programming.dev
https://lemmy.ml/post/2946747. This is a question for !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml too.
This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support. Removing under rule #3.