Just curious. I miss mainly language stuff, some video game communities (like RoN, KCD) and some local communities like for Arabs (tbf those were always cesspits but I miss talking to other Arabs on Lemmy)
I’ll try to be the change I want to see. How about you?
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There are some great communities of obsessive hobbyists here like !Selfhosted@lemmy.world, and if you throw a brick in any direction you’ll hit two Linux nerds, but reddit has /r/sysadmin and other infosec groups that have large numbers of industry professionals - and no amount of enthusiasm can substitute for real-world experience. I miss the conversation from people who spend time writing system security plans, reading NIST documentation for guidance, thinking about remote management for networks that support thousands of end users, and who have to actually deal with the cybersecurity incidents that get reported in the news.
You can contact L3s, the mod of !sysadmin@lemmy.world and ask to become a mod since the rest are completely inactive. Though i don’t know how you’d be able to consistently post nor the content that was on there, since i’m not a sysadmin :)
You can’t produce an actual community by wanting it, or by forcing it. Only time, and the effort of many people, can bring it into existence. It was a long time before reddit attracted professional communities. It will be a long time before it happens here, if ever.
Of course, but i was talking about you helping it be more active. Personally there were two pretty inactive communities i liked, that i had helped revive. It wasn’t just me of course and it was hard but it’s possible. Just a thought though.
Tbf, most I use especially since I started ignoring news and politics… Chinese, Buddhism, art, yoga, poetry etc. Local city subreddit. Everything “humanities” is sparsely populated here even though I try my best to get the ball rolling. I still use reddit for some of this.
Thank you for your posts on !imaginary@reddthat.com !
We have !fedigrow@lemm.ee to discuss community growing and posting
Thanks to you too for your hard work :) Already joined !fedigrow@lemm.ee!
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Niche committees for random movies, TV shows, games, or whatever form of entertainment. It was pretty cool having communities for The Crow, Hellraiser, iZombie, Xena, Due South (who here even knows Due South?) and basically just whatever the hell you can think of. Even specific bands, to throw music into the entertainment mix.
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Fashion based communities like Alt Fashion, Goth Fashion etc. I think communities like that would thrive here because NSFW is kept pretty much separate from most instances, so it would help keep away the porn brain commenters and OnlyFans bots. Also things like hair and skincare style communities. You could find really niche shit like even communities for advice specific to hooded eyes.
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Feminist slanted communities with active discussion. There are a couple of communities where probably the moderators are keeping the lights on by posting articles occasionally but beyond that, they’re ghost towns. I’m honestly surprised that more people from these sorts of online communities haven’t come here yet because Reddit in general likes to “both sides” this kind of conversation. While it seems generally more acceptable here to get off the fucking fence and walk around on the left hand side.
Fashion
!malefashionadvice@lemmy.world is so quiet that I wouldn’t even try more niche style.
skincare
Similar for !skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works
Niche committees for random movies, TV shows, games, or whatever form of entertainment
Besides the general ones like !showsandmovies@lemm.ee and !movies@lemm.ee, there are a few like !severance@lemmy.world . We keep a pinned post at the top of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee , feel free to have a look.
Fashion
Honestly, I think there’s two big barriers to this (same goes for the NSFW side of things, if I may say). No posting to your own profile and from what I can tell, a very inconsistent (or non-existent) system of being able to follow specific users. Reddit is much better equipped for people who are going to be posting pictures of themselves and maybe promoting themselves and gaining a following.
But I think also the other problem that also applies to things like skincare / health and niche entertainment communities is just that there’s not enough users around yet to make more niche subjects active. That I understand and can only hope changes over time.
We keep a pinned post at the top of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
Thanks, I have checked out that thread before. Seems to be a good place to check for any new specific communities that pop up or that I haven’t thought of. I think I need to add that community to my favourites and visit it more often because it seems like the best central place for now. Although of course I’m not watching everything as it comes out, so can’t promise I’ll be commenting on everything.
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I think Polandball has never really taken off here, same with Lego :/
I just started posting to !lego@lemm.ee yesterday, feel free to join!
C’est tragique. I never spent much around polandball, compball or that stuff but it was kinda nice seeing them every once in a while (even if i didn’t get them lmao) but the fact there is no lego community is insane.
The Polandball community on Reddit is really focused on the creators I don’t see them moving anywhere soon :(
There actually is a lego community !Lego@lemmy.world but it’s very slow with roughly 1 post per week. Certainly doesn’t scratch the itch
None of the Japanese communities actually migrated over (for those living here, such as the finance one), which is sad. I’m still hoping they eventually do. Until then, unless law and taxes become much easier (try doing legalese in your non-native language that has thousands of characters and tons of Jargon), I still go there for that. Same with ALTTPR, unless it has some community I haven’t seen yet.
Lemmy is very poor in gay communities. There are some, but very inactive.
Strange, you’d think blahaj zone, despite mainly being trans would have some communities for gays and lesbians.
You might want to chime in on this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/gaymers/comments/1ik8z9f/discussion_has_rgaymers_ever_considered/
I miss tankporn, there aren’t enough images of vehicles that can kill me in my Lemmy feed.
There was a sub i think called r/daily3d that offered a daily prompt for users to create in 3d modeling software like blender. It became inactive years ago when the moderator who offered the prompts stepped down and set up a bot to come up with it instead. It was never huge, usually 10 entries a day at its peak, but that was a fun sub to check in on every so often. Some users were really good, and before the bot took over, the mod offered prompts that encouraged user interpretation and creativity.
One for my model of car. One for native plants in my area
Are !nativeplantgardening@mander.xyz or !nativeplantgardening@sh.itjust.works too broad?
Native plants doesn’t mean much if it just means native to the US. Theres a lot of weird stuff in CA, TX, and other regions found nowhere else, and a lot fewer plants that are found across regions. Ideally we’d have the users to have discussion about specifically CA-native plants but I’m not that passionate or knowledgeable enough to lead that effort.
True, in this case, it would actually be beneficial to eventually have multiple communities based on region, e.g. !nativeplants@feddit.uk, !nativeplants@lemmy.nz, !nativeplants@lemmy.ca, etc.
Not sure if Lemmy quite has the numbers for that yet, though. Thoughts?
Tagging @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I would probably put everything in the same community at first, then split when userbase is sufficient
The second one should probably closed
Have you tried !cars@lemmy.world and !gardening@lemmy.world ?
I would love a native plant community on general. What area are you interested in?
California / Western US. The reddit one is named r/ceanothus
I miss there being a lot more Swedes around in the Swedish community. There’s >100k+ on Reddit, !sweden@lemmy.world has far less active users and a large chunk of the posts are from me.
I feel like it’s quite common for smaller countries to be honest. What is the stance of the subreddit mods about promoting it? I’ve had bad experiences in the past about trying to promote Lemmy on geodefault subs.
I wouldn’t know, as I haven’t logged in to Reddit since 2023.
I think I may have posted something about it around July when the API changes were announced, but that was probably too early for anyone to care.
3d communities like blender, vfx were active, I was getting back into webdesign (for local businesses freelancing) so wordpress was interesting (for the drama not helpful lol), comicbooks was wayyy more active there (I stopped reading when reddit permabanned me, i liked discussing with the ppl reccomending me stuff), fantasy for books, all the drug related ones, rave related ones, nootropics, supplements, etc. Adhd and adhdmemes there was good, thats okay here.
I dont miss any of the popular front page subreddits, browsing that right now was tedious
Ain’t that the truth, a lot of them partially moved here sadly but it’s easily blockable.
Niche communities for colonysims, or the communties for the games themselves, that was always divided between there and discord tho, any niche community in general, like valiant comics has a subreddit, robinhobb has one, the cosmere has one, etc.
Touchdesigner had a useful community there, davinci resolve, resolume, etc… ngl I reopened reddit for the firsr time in a few days just to check what I was missing, so im not missing it that much lol
Very nice. I’ve not much to say but: be the change you want to see ;) (or not, it’s your choice lol)
Yeah I just prefer to see posts and comments from ppl who know what they’re talking about, specialists, im a hobby hopper, I never get that far lol, I lose interest and generally never get past intermediate
It was very effective at keeping me interested in games, like being subbed to tenkaichi 4 is the only reason I remembered the game existed just now opening reddit
Yeah i missed game communities. I think i’m going to create kingdom come / ready or not comms here, though will there be a lot of users? Probably not.
- SlayTheSpire
- Permaculture
- NativePlantGardening
- StableDiffusion
Niche communities, of course
StableDiffusion
!stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
For the two others, !gardening@lemmy.world is probably the closest
Thanks, I appreciate the effort! I actually have the top comment on the most recent post in the gardening ‘sublemmit’ lol
As for StableDiffusion, ai image/video gen is quickly changing field so it kind of needs a big group of enthusiasts to keep up to date on new projects and developments
!nativeplantgardening@mander.xyz (active)
!nativeplantgardening@sh.itjust.works (dormant)
!permaculture@lemm.ee (dormant)
!permaculture@lemmy.world (active)
These are small, but they exist.
You prompted me to go through and check what I was subscribed to on Reddit, so here goes:
Rubik’s cubes
- r/anarchycubing
- r/CubeModding
- r/cubepics
- r/Cubers
- r/Cubinggore
- r/NewCubes
- r/twistypuzzles
!cubers@lemmy.world exists, but it is pretty small, and there isn’t really a meme culture associated with it. Rubik’s cubes are very visual hobby, so perhaps this is being hampered by image hosting costs/restrictions? Personally, since I can’t post photos straight from my camera, so I haven’t bothered to post any images.
Spaceflight
- r/AstraSpace
- r/DreamChaser
- r/fireflyspace
- r/JAXA
- r/NeutronDevelopment
- r/RelativitySpace
- r/RocketLab
- r/SierraNevadaCorp
- r/spacex
- r/SpaceXLounge
- r/StarshipDevelopment
- r/StokeSpace
- r/ula
For now, I think these topics can be adequately served by !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, !spacex@sh.itjust.works, and !rocketlab@lemmy.nz.
- r/rocketlabmasterrace
- r/ShittySpaceXIdeas
- r/SpaceXMasterrace
- r/SueOrigin
- r/TEATEBMasterrace
We do have !spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works, but I’m keeping it on “life support” with Reddit content. I wish the Lemmy spaceflight userbase was large enough to support its own meme culture.
CGP Grey, Brady Haran, and Hello Internet podcast
- r/Bestagons
- r/bradyharanexplosions
- r/Flaggyflag
- r/HelloInternet
- r/HItrivia
- r/nailandgear
- r/PodcastPostcards
- r/T_HIP
I’ve made !hellointernet@feddit.uk, but things have been pretty slow. It doesn’t help that the podcast hasn’t uploaded in five years XD
@grant@toast.ooo has made a nice home for !cgpgrey@toast.ooo. (Psst, it’s time to swap out the pinned Cortex thread for the latest episode :)
Tesla
- r/TeslaAutonomy
- r/teslacanada
- r/teslamotors
I think these are adequately served by !teslamotors@lemmy.zip and !avs@futurology.today. (Thanks @BrikoX@lemmy.zip and @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al)
Lesser Musk Empire
- r/BoringCompany
- r/Neuralink
I’ve made !boringcompany@sh.itjust.works, but haven’t had the time to grow it. For Neuralink, might a more general community for brain computer interfaces be viable on Lemmy? I’m thinking something like !bci@futurology.today.
Board games
- r/Carcassonne
We had !carcassonne@feddit.de, but no replacement was created when feddit.de went down. Any instance recommendations?
Futuristic tech
- r/deextinction
- r/fusion
- r/ITER
- r/wheresthebeef
!fusion@lemmy.ml and !fusionenergy@lemmy.ml exist, but they are pretty dead and I’d rather move off of ml where possible. I couldn’t find anything for deextinction or cultured meat.
@Lugh@futurology.today, any interest in growing communities for these on futurology.today?
Harry Potter
HarryPotteronHBO
Closest thing is probably !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social, but it is also being kept on life support with Reddit content.
Miscellaneous
- r/JellyBelly
Nothing whatsoever for this.
- r/JoeyForReddit
Somehow, my favourite 3rd-party app still works on my phone. I don’t know how, and I’m not going to ask questions. I am sad that u/codesForLiving hasn’t made a Lemmy app. Anyone know what they’re doing now or how to contact them?
- r/legoRockets
If the casual spaceflight and Lego userbase of Lemmy could be grown, this community would arise naturally :)
- r/Penderwicks
!penderwicks@literature.cafe would be the obvious choice, I just haven’t gotten around to creating it yet.
Writing prompts. It’s here, but it’s unpopulated. Tbf the Reddit one wasn’t super populated either, but that’s where I did a lot of my reading.
Yeah, it gets the occasional post, but responses are few, and tend to take a while to show up
Interesting, never heard of it. Though that content sounds like it takes effort which only a select couple of users would exert.
There was like, under 100 people who would write, but a lot of them were very good. I bought a couple of ebooks and read tens of thousands of pages of work from there.
The type of person commenting there ideally wants most eyes to see their work, so I think it could do well even with a small community of commenters, it used to be really fun when it was just everyone giving it a go and not professional authors who are bored.
Well both the mods of !writingprompts@lemmy.world and !writingprompts@literature.cafe are inactive, so if one of you were interested you could take up moderating it ;)
Not inactive, just not active active. There’s never anything to moderate, and I’m not prone to doing my writing on lemmy these days. Character limits make it somewhat annoying to fit things in. I favor longer fiction than I used to, particularly back on reddit. Since this account is exclusively for my pen name, and I’m a non entity, there’s not much call to interact with things.
But I passively use lemmy plenty, and read everything in the community.
Would you be open to consolidating the activity on !writingprompts@lemmy.world onto !writingprompts@literature.cafe?
@gabe@literature.cafe, @Arthur@literature.cafe, would you be open to adding MaelGuerra to the mod team?
Yeah I’m totally fine with that if MaelGuerra is up for the transition!
if MaelGuerra is up for the transition
They are! Keep an eye out for a post or comment from them in !writingprompts@literature.cafe and add them to the mod team.
I assumed since you haven’t interacted publicly for a year you were inactive, sorry.
Not a problem :)
Just wanted to check in on this: Would you be open to consolidating the activity on !writingprompts@lemmy.world onto !writingprompts@literature.cafe?
It would help shift the load from LemmyWorld to a more topic-appropriate instance. The instance admins are fine with adding you to the mod team.
Sounds like a great opportunity to migrate a .world community to a more topical instance as well.
When I set it up, there was a bit of difficulty finding instances, or I would have picked one that’s less congested. There’s one at literature.cafe that gets some use as well.
isn’t character limit by instance? If that’s an issue an issue with it movings prob a good idea
Literature.cafe seems great for what it is so if someone would pick between them i think lc would be 100% the better choice.
There’s my list the communities I miss and it’s not even a full list. Majority of them don’t exist on the threadiverse but there are some that do but the problem there is that pretty much everything is dead/stale.
Few dozen communities here.
r/gamedesign
r/gameideas
r/ididnthaveeggs
r/LucidDreaming
r/SplitDepthGIFS - This one is dead even on reddit but I find it very neat.
r/RobGPT - This is a small personal robotics project that I was following before I quit reddit.
r/psychology
r/proceduralgeneration
r/perfectloops
r/Perfectfit
r/OUTFITS
r/Neuropsychology
r/Meditation
r/magicbuilding
r/WeatherGifs
r/AbruptChaos
r/AbstractArt
r/AbstractPhotos
r/AccidentalSlapStick
r/acrophobia
r/aestheticrain abd r/raining
r/AmateurRoomPorn
r/amogus - To this day I absolutely love this meme. I’d have posted some stuff myself but lemmy is uncool and amogus posts would get downvoted. >:c
r/animation
r/antimeme
r/ArchitecturePorn
r/armoredwomen
r/ArtefactPorn
r/ArtJournaling
r/AwesomeCarMods
r/backrooms
r/badUIbattles
r/BarcodePorn
r/BasicBulletJournals
r/battlestations
r/BirdsForScale
r/bizarrebuildings
r/Bossfight
r/CargoBike
r/Chinesium
r/CityPorn
r/confusing_perspective or r/confusingperspective
r/coolguides
r/CozyPlaces
r/CrappyDesign
r/crazystairs
r/CursedTanks
r/DesignPorn
r/dontflinch
r/dontputyourdickinthat
r/EngineeringPorn
r/evilbuildings
r/ExposurePorn
r/Eyebleach - The wholesome one.
r/fashionporn
r/feeltheworld
r/FifthWorldPics
r/forbiddensnacks
r/FractalGifs
r/FractalPorn
r/glitch_art
r/Graffiti
r/graphic_design
r/HighQualityReloads
r/hmmm - The reddit one has a very specific and strict set of rules that make the community very special to me.
r/hmmmgifs
r/Houseporn
r/InfrastructurePorn
r/InteriorDesign
r/interiordecorating
r/IRLEasterEggs
r/ItemShop
r/Journaling
r/JournalingIsArt
r/kenopsia
r/LiminalSpace
r/MachinePorn
r/mechanical_gifs
r/megalophobia
r/mildlypenis
r/MilitaryVStheUnknown
r/MotionDesign
r/nukedmemes
r/oddlysatisfying
r/oddlyspecific
r/ooer
r/OSHA
r/PixelArt
r/ScarySigns
r/shittytechnicals
r/soundporn
r/submechanophobia
r/surrealmemes
r/WeirdWheelsAnd countless other art and niche communities.
r/animation
I didn’t ask for recommendations. I just shared what I miss and lemmy in no way will replace them for me due to low traffic like I mentioned at the top of my comment. I know those communities exist. I’m working on indexing communities for !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com after all although it’s behind the scenes so the current form isn’t representative of what I know of.
Fair. I was pointing them out for people reading this.
Ah, would make sense. I will edit the comment later to include the communities you mentioned directly there then.
r/amogus - To this day I absolutely love this meme. I’d have posted some stuff myself but lemmy is uncool and amogus posts would get downvoted. >:c
Are you sure? It would probably work
I would be willing to do it if the community was on the instance with disabled downvotes otherwise nah.
Reddthat seems like the better fit. I didn’t knew this instance had downvotes disabled, cool. It’s not something that would fit on blahaj imo because it’s just shitposting unrelated to LGBT stuff.
That said I’m waiting for post scheduling feature before I commit to posting lots of stuff because the lemmy schedule site feels very unpleasant to use to me and I want something native. The lemmy v1 is still few months off so it will be a while. I’m also unsure if creating a new community would make sense because it’s a very niche and old meme so I would be the only one that posts things there from time to time. Someone would need to be willing to mod that as well and it wouldn’t be me. I don’t think it’s worth the trouble to set things up anew tbh. :x
Fair!
You might want to format it a bit, it’s quite hard to read at the moment
Just finished.
Journaling
A lot of these are cool, if i have time i could create some.
I wouldn’t recommend creating communities for the sake of creating them unless you can commit to posting and moderating them.
That’s what i meant :) in a couple of weeks i’ll have a lot of free time so i can contribute some of it to that. And some of these i really like r/antimeme and r/oddlysatisfying.
I will look forward to them then! :D
