You either have to start one yourself, or have a friend do it. I think you have your work cut out for you - honestly, being mod of a cross-dressing community sounds like herding cats in hell. Fabulous cats.
Honestly, most communities are pretty small at the moment - I would start your own, and if you're super successful and the mod load gets too much, I'm sure you'd find others willing to volunteer to help, if not outright take over moderation duties.
Well, your post is still up, so we can assume it's okay lol.
But! Lemmy isn't like reddit in one major way. There aren't as many assholes. This makes moderation absurdly low effort currently. It might change in the future, but for now, you might end up needing to do anything significant maybe once a week or so.
So, you can likely do just fine. But hey, if you make it, and want someone to help you out, I'll be glad to play second banana until you find someone that shares the interest in cross dressing. Moderating isn't as hard as you think, though it does take time to learn how to do it well. But for a niche interest, it's largely just a matter of keeping trolls controlled and setting up the style/vibe how you want it to be. You can do that without sharing the interest :)
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
It's maybe better to start something yourself and then request help if it's gets popular rather than ask someone else to start it for you.
On average, Lemmy communities have about 170 subscribers, so there's every chance you wouldn't have to do any moderation at all.
I see... I guess I will try giving it a go.
I can help moderate if you'd like. Once we gain some traction we could hand it off to more experienced community members or something.
I won't have anything to actually post to it though. So I'd mainly be able to contribute to making sure post comments are all good vibes.
I just made /c/crossdressing_selfies@lemmy.ca
Right now it's only 2 of my pics so I am hoping for more pics.
This is great!
A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities 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.
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:
or instance.com/c/community
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.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons