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

Rules

The rules for behavior are a straight carry over of Mastodon.World's rules. You can click the link but we've reposted them here in brief, as a guideline. We will continue to use the Mastodon.World rules as the master list. Over all, be nice to each other and remember this isn't a community built around debate. For the rules about formatting your posts, scroll down to number 2.

1. Follow the rules of Mastodon.world, which can be found here.

A. Provide an inclusive and supportive environment. This means if it isn't rulebreaking and we can't be supportive to them then we probably shouldn't engage.

B. No illegal content.

C. Use content warnings where appropriate. This means mark your submissions NSFW if need be.

D. No uncivil behavior. This includes, but is not limited to: Name Calling; Bullying; Trolling; Disruptive Commenting; or Personal Criticisms.

E. No Harrassment. As an example in relation to Transgender people this includes, deadnaming, misgendering, and promotion of conversion therapy. Similarly Misogyny, Misandry, and Racism are also banned here.

2. Include a community or instance title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities or instances 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/community@instance.com)

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

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

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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!nanowrimo2@feddit.online

New community for the continuation of NaNoWriMo without any of the previous organization's involvement.

This is based on the website: https://nanowrimo2.com/

Recommended tracker to use is TrackBear: https://trackbear.app/

Leader Board: NaNoWriMo 2: 2025 Edition
https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=48e75747-5a26-42da-865c-9626c490db2f

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is keeping the exact same name, with a '2.0', the best choice if they wish to make it clear they're not related to the previous team/org?

I loved the idea of NaNoWriMo when it all started (yep, I'm getting old) but I also gave up bothering about it entirely when it became that almost business-like endeavor, way too serious. I liked my NaNo to be informal, and fun, and quirky too as I had more than enough serious writing activities, already.

So, reading the new introduction, I kinda love that (a lot):

At this point, it's probably best to leave NaNoWriMo as an idea that no-one owns or administrates.

But, once again, I sincerely doubt keeping the exact same name was the best way to 'leave' any of that sad past behind them. Maybe they could have gone for that International the OP did not consider originally. Saying that as someone who did the NaNo a few time, not living in the USA and not writing in English.

Enough worrying, it's great news to see people trying to revive this excellent idea (and an even better excuse) to encourage people to effing start writing instead of dreaming that one day they will do it.

Get a pen and some paper, or open a new document file if you prefer a computer, and start writing that stupid story you keep thinking about! I'm willing to bet it won't be that stupid once you finish it. And if it is that stupid, well... that's great news as you've just freed your mind for a brand new and much better story idea. And at most it will have taken you a month to do so—I don't know about you but I have often wasted a lot more than a single month ruminating about some 'cool idea' I had that, once I stopped thinking how great it was to actually start writing it, ended up being not that great) :)

[–] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Maybe I need another coffee but I'm a little confused.

So this site (named after a previous writing practice workshop that shut down after a series of scandals) is trying to do the same thing but isn't actually hosting anything and is more or less pointing to a Reddit megathread with like over a dozen other writing practice workshops?

Edit: Is the point of this just to practice writing a novel for self achievement?

[–] miguel@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :) I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active.