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

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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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The Boondocks (testing.crazypeople.online)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by nocturne@slrpnk.net to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world
 

Adding to the comic strip communities of the fediverse, i started The Boondocks today. !theboonkdocks@slrpnk.net

The Boondocks is probably most well known for the Adult Swim cartoon, but before that it was a comic strip that started in "The Diamondback", the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, College Park on 3 December 1996.

It ran there until March of 1997 when a strip was missed, the following day a large OOPS was published in the strip's place. The artist, and creator of the strip, Aaron McGruder then started publishing The Boondocks in Source magazine from 97-98. The earliest strip in syndication is 19 April 1999.

It was also published on hitlist.com. Initially i thought that happened after it left the Diamondback, but it actually sounds like it was published there first.

A moderator for lostmediawiki went to the University of Maryland library and found microfiche of the Diamondback and has shared the early Boondocks Strips. They are quite rough visually. Thank you to Lucy for preserving these.

Since I missed the actual first day of the strip, i will post a few to get us caught up. Then there will be a break for March and half of April (unless someone manages to uncover any strips) when I will resume on the 19th with the strips from 1999.

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

It was with your help that I found the discussion with the microfiche files!