I haven’t seen a community for requesting others to create communities, unless I have missed it. The original purpose of this community is to find discover and promote new communities, and is still the main purpose, but requesting a community is okay, even if it isn’t the main purpose. For example, there was a post recently asking for alternative communities for venting/psychological help and there was some suggestions, and while that wasn’t a post for promotion of new communities, it wasn’t taken down, since it was related to new communities. I would say just to request it and maybe ask if one is already created, and one might be hosted on a different instance that you don’t know about yet

Would you mind if I pin this post? I feel like it will be helpful if people can see this post the second they enter this community, to help with the 0-1 post problem

Okay, you are now a moderator!

That’s pretty new too, it was made within the last week, the biggest I’ve seen is Beehaw’s then Lemmy.ml’s technology communities. However, new communities are always going to be smaller at the beginning than ones that have been around for a month or a year, but that changes when people learn that they exist!

It’s an allowed instance, you can review allowed and blocked instances on lemmy.ml here:

https://lemmy.ml/instances

You may be thinking of beehaw.org, who defederated immediately with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works:

https://beehaw.org/post/567170

I have never used the Jerboa app so take this all with a grain of salt, since it may be different than the website. The link with the [link text](/c/community@instance.com) should only work if the community is already linked with your instance, the two other formats can be put in the search bar, and after the instance fetches it, it should show up, but not sure how this all works on the app version though

Thank you for saying that!

Good idea to link that one too, but this is a feature on Lemmy to have multiple communities with the same topic, no centralization so we aren’t just reliant on one instance. For more niche topics, it might make sense so small communities don’t get even more fragmented. However for communities like gaming, a broad topic, it should be fine to have on multiple instances

While not every community is on Lemmy yet that I visit on Reddit, by people migrating from Reddit to here, hopefully that issue will be solved soon. The community here seems way more welcoming than the Reddit community is too