Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven't found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
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Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven't found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
Itβs mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on [email protected] , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more
Well, youβve encouraged me to make a comment! And given me a great community to watch Lemmy grow!
Iβll do the same :D
That's great, happy I could help!
It really depends. Something like askhistorians is probably big enough for it to work. For the vastly smaller communities where I try to do that, the dancefloor looks as I like it IRL: empty besides me. Itβs less of an empty dancefloor problem, and more that the 1% rule often means you are a part of the 1%, and the other 1-percenters stayed on reddit.
Very true, and that's why I think everyone on Lemmy should probably focus on a few core communities instead of spreading across niche ones that are empty. For instance, I think that photography communities (both .ml and .world, as well as other instances) would benefit from just posting to pics for now, to gain more traction on those ones.
Once we reach a constant flow of content, then it will be time to split.
Transphobia free content is what I miss most. Ever since the reddit influx, there's been a huge rise in transphobia
I've removed one of the responses to this comment due to rule #2. It's a fine line and I'm choosing to err on the side of caution and supportiveness.
Communities for people with rare disorders or illnesses. And plant communities for specific plant groups, so not plants in general. But most of all, i miss the fact that i could search for very specific content to see what creative ideas other people had on how to do certain things. Or people who shared many years of experience and experimenting.
Individual game subs. Even a niche game usually had just enough of an active community that I could talk about it get help with pretty much anything.
The generic "Gaming" and "PC gaming" and even "BoardGames" crowd is here; but they're mostly good for general news, not discussion of specific games. If I want discussion about lore in Baldi's Basics, for example, I ain't getting it in the general communities.
r/WritingPrompts. The [email protected] community here only has a few posts.
And closely related: r/HFY
I think in general we just need more people.. There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.
Communities for specific consoles, like r/PS3, r/3DS, r/Vita, very helpful for keeping up to date with new plugins and stuff
The ones here either donβt exist, or do but isnβt active at all
I miss communities that I can ask a question to. When I have a problem with a plant, or a legal issue in Japan, or a question about bike brakes... It's nice to have someone to talk to about it that knows more than I do.
A lot of country- or city-specific subreddits either aren't on here or are quite inactive. To be honest they were mostly cesspits on Reddit so maybe it's no bad thing but you occasionally found useful information there.
Other than that, there were a few subreddits that were good for recipe ideas, like /r/EatCheapAndHealthy. /r/ZeroWaste was good too, on occasion.
In general, non-tech related communities don't seem to have migrated over as much. Most of the subreddits I followed were related to technology in some way and now have pretty active communities on Lemmy.
Certain informative, niche communities like /r/neovim, /r/prequelmemes, and er, um /r/sex. I know there are comparable communities here, but the volume is missing. OTOH, everyone is much friendlier here. And, a smaller user base means our comments don't get buried among thousands. Also, I'm really enjoying new-to-me communities /c/risa.
Tears of the kingdom content. Gimme those ridiculous builds
Some incredible stuff, and Iβm sure the madlads in hyruleengineering have pushed the limits over the last few monthsβ¦. But two fans and a steering stick are all it really takes.
The sad, basically abandoned subs for tv shows that I never got around to until after they were canceled (shout out to Hello Tomorrow).
Some of the more niche support communities for various reasons, the ones that really only had a dozen or so regs. I hope theyβve found something equivalent to do on the toilet at work.
In Terms of subreddits I haven't found bikinibottomtwitter yet, can't even tell if it exists because the search is broken on every android client and the desktop version too.
You can use Lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=bikini+bottom+
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Doesn't seem like there are many economy/financial/stock focused communities here yet
surreal memes
There's always late night Imgur.
You wanna start it? Iβll help you gather content for it and allβ¦that was the only meme sub I ever liked. It spoke to the inner fifth dimensional Accordian Man inside me.
Centralized tv show discussions with episode discussion threads. That hasnβt happened yet :/
I miss having large and active subreddits for the sports teams I follow. They were my primary source of news for the teams and games at threads were great.
Virtual Reality and related subs are pretty small/nonexistent here still.
I miss the idea of /r/outside. A kind of role play in a fun , not too abstract context.
I miss the bonsai sub and maybe the gunpla one too. I'm sure there's others, but those two were a big part of my enjoying the other site.
I miss r/conspiracy. The more crazy and outlandish the conspiracy, the more they believed it was real. Interesting people watching but also entertaining to mess with.
Edit: I think they had a convention. The mere existence I found amusing.
Edit2: Shit like:
"We should create the Tax Riot Party, and not pay taxes, and then when they come after us for not paying taxes, we sue the government on the basis of immorality, and then demand direct democracy where we get to allocate our tax dollars into the government programs that we see fit."
Just move to the south. I dropped some stuff at the dump and the dumpmaster was talking at me about how 9/11 was actually holograms and his uncles friend worked for Linden Johnson, so he knows all about the secret alien projects and that we went to war in the middle east to locate a stolen rage/zombie virus that Russia developed and lost.
Yup, I live in the South. It's like a minimum security psych ward with a Dollar Tree inside.
/r/2007scape, /r/asoiaf, /r/berserk, /r/fibromyalgia, also my big unix multireddit!
I don't watch youtube. My inline video contents mostly come from R... Vow, I miss those; they have some really interesting videos I keep forwarding to people.
r/antipsychiatry 42,000 members who contributed some articles during 17 years for free quack law book https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p4hbeqa7e74j4lk/AAAl2RN_pmlCDoeg9MXHVe4Ca?dl=0