What community would you like to see more active on Lemmy?
I suspect most people aren't subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that's you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.
👏Let's 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.
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Not one community specifically, but I really wish that communities about sports - specifically American football - were more active. I really miss that from the other place.
I am doing my best to get activity going on the nfl and lacrosse instances.
https://lemmy.zip/c/[email protected]
https://lemmy.zip/c/[email protected]
I’ll try to start contributing to the NFL community.
Keep it up. I don't much care about off-season news or anything, but I'll probably join the discussion when it comes to highlights and game threads. These upcoming seasons for each sport will play a big part in how active the community will be going forward I think. Unfortunately a bunch of traffic was dominated by the presidential election last year so other niche topics should gain more traction this year.
The NBA community (![email protected]) is small but decently active. We had live game threads for the playoffs but it was like 5 people commenting lol. It was still fun though, and hopefully it grows more.
That's how we get it started. 5 people active on live game thread leads people to see 'oh, when it's live there is a group hanging out here' next time you'll have 7 then 12 then 30. Keep it up!
That's the one sub I'll still peek in now and then. Especially since my guys won it this year. Lol.
Thunder up!
American exceptionalism strikes once again.
How? Because somebody likes something? That isn’t American exceptionalism.
I highlighted it because obviously you're extremely stupid:
How does liking gridiron football equate to believing the US is exemplary or better than other nations? Or maybe you think the definition of American exceptionalism is, “Likes something American”. Calling people dumb because you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about isn’t a good look.
Saying you want sports communities then hyper-focusing on American sports is exceptionalism.
There is a small percentage of the Lemmy population that is American, the great majority is European.
No one here cares for American football or the NFL. So why create a community? Because they think we care. Simple as. It's believing that Americans are at the centre of the universe once again 🙄.
I assume you aren't engaging in good faith dialog here, given the immediate reach for disparaging remarks, but on the off chance you are, let me ask you this. If you asked somebody what their favorite whisky was, and they replied "Laphroaig", would that be a sign of Scottish nationalism or exceptionalism? Or if you asked their favorite cheese, and they gave "Gouda", a sign of Dutch exceptionalism?
Just because one's answer to "What community would you like to see more active..." is something that is from the US, this is not American Exceptionalism. The question wasn't, "What community do you think every Lemmy user should be required to participate in?" Nor was is, "What community is the best and most important on Lemmy?"
Clearly, at least one person here cares about it. Clearly that person isn't you. Everything you have written here is incorrect, and if you had any shame, you'd be embarrassed to have said it in public.
![email protected]
I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X. And light novels are familiar and approachable. Often, people have already seen the anime or seen the manga.
For that matter, even ![email protected] could use more activity, and manga is even more approachable than light novels.
I recently started reading a lot of the LNs that are on "catch up" at a website called j-novel club, and it's gotten me to enjoy reading novels more.
Also, the Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel is one of my favorite things I've ever read. It's a pretty long one at 33 volumes, though.
I went there hoping to discuss korean web novels and they don't allow it.
No idea why
Because they are by definition different things. Close in style, sure, but so are YA novels.
Coming as a reddit refugee I just replicated their definition when creating the community. And I still feel the same way since it's not a general "novel" community. If there's a popular demand I'll loose the restrictions.
Thanks for the response.
Considering that Lemmy is still growing I'd hope there would be a place to discuss all light novels in one place.
About a year ago maybe I made a post and it was taken down due to not being a japanese web novel.
Regardless of style "web novel" and "light novel" aren't specific to a source country like manga and manwha are. So as a community restricting [email protected] to just japanese ones didn't make sense. You could've done jnovels instead.
You're doing it based off of writing style. You can make that call as a moderator but I just let it go and don't discuss my reading with anyone still after leaving reddit.
One day maybe enough people break the rule in a month to open it up.
Both Wikipedia and Wiktionary define them as Japanese. The same goes for the original Reddit community or the database the bot (Myne) gets her info from. I did not take down your comment (it's still up) but pointed out that it's the wrong community for that reason. I didn't do it on a whim.
I'm not categorically against Korean (or Chinese) novels, but they're by every definition I know simply not "light novels". I believe that a general book community would be a better place to discuss other translated works. For reference, the place on Reddit to post Korean Webnovels would be r/noveltranslations instead of r/lightnovels.
Thank you for the clarification. I've always just searched TITLE light novel and it just comes right up when looking for the source of a graphic novel.
If I had the bandwidth I would start up novel translations myself, but alas my life is too busy to moderate and maintain it.
Thank you for your own efforts as a moderator and taking the time to clarify.
Edit:
I'm not good at using Lemmy search, but I figured out how to find my post here: Link
I found a discord server that was dedicated to the series I was talking about, but left it since I don't like my discord cluttered.
I read like 20 different stories across Korean and Japanese authors. The bulk keeps me distracted enough to not have spare time to chat. Although I miss having people to converse with.
As Myne in the sidebar states: "Y'all better start reading more books!" :)
And she is noticeably not snobby about books. Myne would love to read light novels.
One problem that got me away from novels for a while was that I'd get ambitious and try to read something that was recommended but really wasn't for me.
I would recommend to go with series that you liked the anime of and want to know how the story continues. It's not a 100% surefire way to find something you like, but at least you remove other people's taste from the equation.
[email protected] 🧢👕👖👟🕺
🤣 be the change you want to see 😋
You’ve done a great job of propping it up. Sorry you haven’t gotten more help.
I don’t really belong there as a poster but have always enjoyed it as a reader.
Yeah, it's frustrating to be in that position. Some communities I can post to, but some I only have comments to contribute.
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Subscribed!
Thanks!! 🤜🤛
Oh subbed thanks!
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Short answer: All of them.
My Community Wish List:
Creative Communities
[email protected] - All things creative to share
[email protected] - Team up with someone or a group of people and write something together.
[email protected] - A casual space for writers to talk, post, or discuss anything.
Educational/Informative Communities
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Positive News Communities
[email protected]
[email protected]
Humor/Funny Communities
[email protected]
[email protected] - Watch Comedy
[email protected] - Read Comedy
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] - a.k.a. Awful Taste But Great Execution
[email protected]
[email protected]
edit: grammar
Haven’t seen writingprompts in a while, really liked that one.
I am seeing more and more activity lately on ![email protected] which is awesome.
![email protected]
If you have a dog and haven't posted it in a babushka yet.. Why not?
Liberal gun owners. (Don't know how to link properly.)
https://old.lemmy.world/c/liberalgunowners
Such a great reddit community, or used to be. No toxic right-wing shit, just people showing off their builds and buys, asking questions, getting solid advice with no bullshit, talking laws and legal repercussions, linking timely news, loads of trans people posting. No judging! A new person could come in with the same damned question we'd covered 500 times. No problem! We'd all jump in and help.
Fuck I miss that place. It's dead here. Also, I think there are a few people that go in there solely to downvote. Don't know how to check logs, not interested enough to try, but it looks like assholes are trying to spoil it.
And FFS, NOW is the time left-minded Americans should be getting armed! Blacks, LGBTs and women have been the largest gun buying demographic for several years. They need help and they need a judgement free space to get it.
![email protected]
I was clear. I know it exists, it's just dead and again, seems like there are some downvoting every post out of spite.
Join the moderation team and ban the persistent downvoters.
(can't edit my posts)
I was NOT clear in my post. Sorry.
the sub probably blocks trolls. or deletes or bans them from the sub. alot of subs tend not to do it, so declines alot, hence the right wing push as the site as a whole. or it becomes too overzealous in moderation.
oh shit what uppp? on my way to federate
mine, but that is fine because its a niche topic.
![email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/blender
We need more activity over there. I hope to make a post or two soon, but it's sad only seeing a couple new posts before seeing things from months ago. C'mon 3D artists!!! Where ya at?
I'll sub to that. Been meaning to get more in to blender
Welcome in!😁👍
![email protected]
Also:
Perhaps some consolidation might be warranted here?
Wow, quite a few pages there, but they all have the same problem 😞 not enough activity. C'mon Internet!
Would you consider making a consolidation post in ![email protected]?
We have a pinned guide with step-by-step instructions.
Yes i would, actually. Give me some time to read through that, and have something typed up :)👍
Awesome! Let me know if you have any questions, or if there is any way I might able to help out.
done! see post here
Kind of wish the mass effect community was more active. NGL I kind of ended up hating the subreddit after awhile so no idea what to expect from folks on Lemmy but seems like it'd be better based on other communities I've joined.
[email protected]
I'd like more discussion in stock market or economy communities.
Same
I'd like to see a community for cool stuff happening in NYC.
I'd like to see more stuff for organizing protests and resistance, also for the NYC area.
I know. Biggest city in the country but we barely connect with each other on Lemmy. Anywhere in particular other than [email protected] ?
I'm not aware of any NYC communities, even inactive ones, on the fediverse, though I haven't looked very hard. That link you provided errors out, if it's supposed to work.
[email protected] is probably the best bet
voxpop.social has shutdown
Cool. I'll subscribe, thanks
Same but for the Los Angeles area. There is one but it's dead.
I'm mildly proud of the fact that the Mini Apple has a more active community than the Big Apple, lol.
![email protected], and I'm like half of that activity and it's pretty dead. Make it, post, and maybe you'll have more luck, but local communities are tough given the small userbase.
(We also have a Democratic Socialist running for mayor, good luck to both Mamdani and Fateh!)
I think a lot of people got really mad at some admin or moderator at midwest.social and hence a lot of people moved off it. Can’t recall why though
[email protected]
I'm trying to start a mental health support community that's skills based to hopefully help people who can't afford or otherwise access professional therapy.
Here's the wiki (the main page has a quickstart guide if you're looking for some things you can do today even just to maybe help stabilize yourself a little)
Here's a specific list of ways you can get involved with growing this community
This is great! I think the ones that get more subs will generally rise to the top and people will start congregating there.
I'm seeing a bunch of upvotes on peoples comments here. I'm hoping that those people are also subbing to the communities they see in here.
I'm gonna try to remember to post this kind of question maybe once a month and over time we'll get communities popping off.
most of them are on reddit, and probably unaware that lemmy exists, plus there are still medical based forums out there too. probably hard to see out of the 50k users, which one will ask a medical based issue.
Not necessarily:
I think it only makes sense to have multiple communities on the same topic if each version serves a specific niche or has a unique moderation style. I think most of the examples you've given would be suitable for consolidation into two or three communities.
More info on consolidating communities in the pinned thread on ![email protected].
What are your thoughts?
Shameless self-promotion: [email protected]
It's like "On This Day", "This Day in History", etc. I'm currently the only poster but I don't mind, I enjoy regularly looking for interesting anniversaries.
Post anniversaries on any topic you feel like; even personal anniversaries are allowed!
![email protected]
Fuck Russia and their American agents.
I'd love to see the ![email protected] community be more active. As it is, the dev communities here are far more quiet than they were on reddit.
Music theory and conlangs. There are several conlang communities - but they're all on life support (or worse).
What is conlangs? Music theory I am down for too.
CONstructed LANGuages. Languages built/created by a person or team of people, as opposed to a language that evolves naturally. Some famous conlangs are Esperanto, Toki Pona and Klingon.
Oh interesting.
![email protected]
One can dream
Lemmy already superseded my expectations with how active it is. That being said, I would love the following to see more action (although I'm mostly lurking there myself):
[email protected] - Loved the discussions on Reddit. As a European, it's not easy to follow the games, so that was a great way to stay up to date.
[email protected] - Mostly carried by /u/[email protected], whose updates are *chef's kiss*
[email protected] - No explanation needed.
I can’t interact with the crit role community. Is it locked? Am I banned?
[email protected]
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Scifi short stories are the only reason I go to Reddit anymore.
![email protected]
I think I did that right?
![email protected] I miss venting with a bunch of other cooks on reddit, but unfortunately this community is pretty inactive.
Are you aware that lemm.ee shut down? Any communities will need to be recreated on another instance.
![email protected]
I think I might be the only person here who plays...
Nerdcore.social. Ha! Sounds like i need to peruse that instance.
Is anyone else getting usenet vibes with this domain structure? I wonder if there's anything we can learn from that past experience that we aren't doing with lemmy right now. I wonder how many people were active on usenet in its heyday, and are hanging out on lemmy now.
Oh man, this is a cool feeling. It feels like fresh air after 20 years of using all those other corporate run sites. We have a future to look forward to, because the now is pretty chill with you lemmings!
I want to read more ![email protected] please!
![email protected]
you forgot the "!" before the link
[email protected]
One of the most well-intentioned and reasonable spaces to discuss this type of stuff I've found, but posts are not frequent.
Subbed. I used to love Men's Lib on Reddit.
I 👏 want 👏 more 👏 girl 👏 content 👏
To be clear - I am talking about stereotypically "female" subjects, not about the gender itself, and I hope it goes without saying that I want people of all genders to be part of it. Some topics over on reddit are full of guys, NBs, and everyone else, but are what a bigoted 90s teacher would call "female" topics. I want more stuff of what that 90s teacher would call "girly" stuff.
I mean, something like a makeup community. Maybe skincare and fashion. Cleaning tips. Pre and post and peri pregnancy content. The parenting community on lemmy is super quiet. There is a sewing community but it is rather quiet too. I haven't found a mending focused community yet. Boy there even isn't a sailor moon community, like 😭 come on
I'm horrible in creating any content tho, so uhm, not sure I should be complaining.
Girl, you gotta post!.. Maybe this fits the bill ? [email protected]
[email protected]
You can also rally up the gals over at
[email protected]
Or [email protected] to start a periodic diacussion thread over those topics you propose? Or just post a thread and see how it goes?
Lastly... You are welcome to post in [email protected] I feel the userbase needs more women , so do a lil sketch and join us there!
Reddit allowed us to be ultra passive, but here contributing is almost mandatory, otherwise the communities just die...
Thank you so much!! I wish I had more stuff to post but I'll try 🫠 I think the guilt tripping is working
[email protected]
Thank you!
https://leminal.space/c/Sidehustle. I seem to be the only one who joined after seeing it in new communities. I don't have much to contribute to it just yet as sonebody who wants to have a side hustle but isnt ready to start planning but i was hoping it might kick off with some discussions and info i could start absorbing from in the meantime.
I tried to go to it, but it came up with an error page.
Sorry im bad at lemmying still, ![email protected] does that work? Maybe the community already died and i can only see it through my local one?
Now it’s not an error, but it says that the community does not exist.
It looks like it is indeed dead...
![email protected] is basically dead, though I am as guilty anyone of not posting more.
![email protected] has seen some posts lately but I wish it was more active.
![email protected] for motorsports.
I've been working on a bot to help with serving content to that community but it isn't ready for deployment yet. Once it's finished there should be a lot more content being posted more regularly there, but I want to do more testing and tuning before enabling it to make sure it's not doing more harm than good.
DJs! I can't be the only one on Lemmy, but the community is completely dead.
[email protected]
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Basically the subs I mod. It would be awesome to see anyone new add content.
[email protected] ?
Subbed thanks!
You'll probably see it there, but there are only a few people who will persistently try to grow a community, week after week.
Reading the comments here, it seems like a lot of people would like their niche community to be active, but we have to acknowledge that with our current userbase, more general communities are already struggling to stay active, so niche ones are even harder.
Example: ![email protected] is kept up active by less than 5 active posters, and that's a generic community about movies.
![email protected] is probably good enough for all types of cooking, you get the idea.
Yeah it's pretty wild. But if we ask people to join niche stuff. Odds are they're gonna half as it (at least) and just sub to the bigger ones which... I'm taking as a win.
This account is 2 years old?
Mostly my local related communities [email protected] but unfortunately it is no longer moderated.
[email protected] is still moderated And not on .ml, but smallish because it just moved over there (needed to move over from [email protected] because of .ee shutdown)
I know about piefed but not posting there since I tried creating an account with piefed and they said that you cannot create account from my ip region.
So kind of no point on having india community on a instance that doesn't allow account from Indian IP address
You should be able to post to ![email protected] from your sh.itjust.works account. Have you tried that?
Yes it works but some of the posts on piefed are not appearing on lemmy.ml donno why
I know with lemmy.world you can ask the instance admins to become a mod of that sub, if you want you could try to do that. Or create a sub on your own instance
[email protected] all you have to do is post weevil images and I will love you
If Lenny were less complicated to understand I would!
![email protected]
if you want to make posts that regularly get over 50 and sometimes over 100 upvotes, start posting to ![email protected]. Look here to find new comics to post: https://lemmy.world/post/17836648/12653544
whatis this thing communities, certain online games still has a community on reddit but not lemmy(not the generalized game discussion).
location specific communities, but that doesnt seem to be large here lemmy, and ones that arnt overtaken by conservatives, gatekeeper and astroturfers.
I suspect there are a decent amount of people from major cities on here. If you start one of these asklemmy threads saying 'hey any people from tokyo here' and then in the text field just out a tokyo specific community address in there and say let's congregate here. You'll prolly get 20 people. This community has 11k MAU which is large enough to get a lil something going I'd think.
I'm a fan of these kinds of games, especially Smash Melee. Since leaving Reddit and Twitter, I feel pretty disconnected from them.
I'm trying to learn Japanese as a hobby, and it's slightly unfortunate that there's not much of a community for it here. I think the first two kinda split the userbase by having slightly different focus, preventing a definitive one spot. The third one is decently active though, mostly thanks to just a handful of people. The effort makes a big difference.
And I wanted to add, in general, I think communities here often work better at higher levels. Like in the examples from my post, smashbros is better than just the ssbm community. fgc, more realistic than communities for individual fighting games. Languagelearning > individual language communities, to an extent.
Since the Lemmy user base is small, I think zooming out is helpful. This place isn't Reddit and it doesn't work to try and replicate it 1-to1.
I really think so.
Guitars. Reddit has numerous active, friendly, supportive guitar forums. Lemmy doesn't have a single one.
[email protected] is good. I just asked about fretboard oil yesterday and got like 30 comments.
![email protected]
That's a pretty good one, but your post was three days ago, and there's only been one new post since. That's pretty quiet compared to Reddit, with hundreds of posts a day, over multiple forums.
We gotta start somewhere
If anyone is interested in 3D printing, bookbinding, cosplay, crochet, knitting and more… This post has links to hobby-related communities:
https://scribe.disroot.org/post/1450403
I miss the From Software fanbase on reddit. there's a few here but they're spread thin and horribly inactive
The Yogscast community for one. That's what I sought out here first, and it's dead as the desert.
[email protected]
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[email protected] replaced the lemm.ze version
The dropout community would be nice to circle jerk with. But I really miss my knock off cheap Chinese fake watch sub. I tried to post to it here but my post got deleted and the sublemmy shut down soon after.
The new Jakob ep of gamechanger was a good time. That being said, I also don't appreciate how they pushed a player(jess?) to tears(happy tears) in her emotional episode in a way earlier season. Weird lil grey zone I haven't seen explored elsewhere.
I'm very conflicted. But I keep watching.
You wanna feel conflicted? Watch the Greg O'Brien and Aly Beardsley show about paying off their student loans. That was legit reality TV.
https://lemmy.world/c/gothindustrial has been resurrected and we are slowly growing. It's not just about music. We include arts, interviews, stories, etc. We are an inclusive community.
I used to be a big fan of videogame subs, it doesn't seem like there are many communities here focused on specific games.
Minecraft and rimworld had some great community content.
![email protected]
Nascar. I rarely see posts.
I also would like to see less bots reposting reddit. Like the Formula 1 and PC Master Race ones are just reddit posts.
I feel like the Formula 1 community is fairly active with quite a bit of actual discussion going on?
I wish there was more MotoGP and motorcycle content in general....
https://lemmy.world/c/standupshots One of my favorites from reddit but so quiet here
Cring communities that reddit has
Childfree.
The Reddit sub is quite active, but the Lemmy one is a ghost town.
For the conservatives on Lemmy: ![email protected]
I’ll say this, the sub seems borderline tame or even progressive when compared to its Reddit counterpart.
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