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To discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

https://lemmy-federate.com/ to federate your community to a lot of instances
[email protected] to organize overall fediverse growth
[email protected] to keep tabs on where new users might come from :)
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Megathreads:

How (and when) to consolidate communities? (A guide)
Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities? (A list)

Rules:

Be respectful
No bigotry

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Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback! (fedecan.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We've been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.

You can find them all on fedecan.ca under Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.

We're planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.

If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.

The new sections:

Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:

A previously written section that didn't get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/markdown

Future plans include

Guides for Moderators
- Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)
- Moderation Best Practices
Guides for Admins
- Information on our infrastructure and setup

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like it, but I feel it’s a little jargony, especially the first bit.

Your average person has no clue what “open protocol” means.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Good feedback

Do you think it would be better to define it, or use different words entirely?

For example

... because of open standards which is a common language that they all speak. Email providers and...