I’m genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?
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I’m surprised to find there are no adult subs popping up.
I hit up my brother in law who is involved in the adult industry and he is going to spin up an instance that’s super ok with adult content in the next day or so.
Let’s face it, without porn tumbler disappeared, and I think Reddit will too when it bans anything nsfw
This is the dev run instance, and we don’t have time to moderate that.
Isn’t this the overarching problem with lemmy just in general though? I mean, I’m loving it here, but without GOOD moderation any community, no matter where or how it’s hosted, can become very bad very quickly. I’m not blaming you all at all!! I completely understand where you’re coming from, but this is the same scaling issues that mastadon faces right? Is there any idea about how to address this?
The idea is federation. No instance is obligated to scale to thousands of users if they can’t handle it. If somebody else thinks they can, they’re welcome to try.
Reddit already relies on volunteer moderation. I don’t see how this is a barrier at all.
Thank you for your (brother’s) service 🫡
This might be controversial, but I think the TwoX communities need space here. Don’t make them automatically appear on the front page, and hopefully their creators and moderators have the tools to keep them space but yeah, this site needs spaces like TwoXSex, TwoXChromosomes, TwoXPreppers, Beyondthebump, Mommit, Childfree, etc. I’m new here but didn’t find any of those on initial glance and like a great bar, you need women to show up and be seen/heard. Give them a safe space (see my comment on moderation tools) to transition to and I bet Lemmy would get lots of people to switch.
Also, to echo another person, we need a “master” list of communities, at least the umbrella ones. For instance /plants could be the umbrella for /botany, /trees, /gardening, etc.
Lastly, this site needs porn. Hear me out before you start judging. Nothing drives technology usage like porn. VHS and digital video are both huge because of porn driving widespread adoption. PornHub needs to spin up a server for its infinite catalog which ensures they get paid but also that minors aren’t being exploited.
Oh, feature
Requestrequest, some kind of incognito mode in the mobile apps which lets people view NSFW media without it being in their history. Also the app should disable built-in messaging options while in that mode to ensure fewer bad decisions and bad outcomes from accidental texts of disabled midget porn to various contacts. Just an idea I had.Maybe we can skip naming the women’s communities after chromosomes this time around. TheGirlSurvivalGuide is another good subreddit to reference as far as nice women’s support content. From what I recall, that support group gained in popularity after TwoXChromosomes was made a default subreddit.
Personally, I could do without the porn. I don’t think every website needs to include porn. There are lots of other places to go for that content. So much of it features abuse of women and honestly it’s quite refreshing when I find a site that doesn’t feature it. I really hate unexpectedly coming across someone choking a woman. I wouldn’t mind it so much if the bulk of it was adults actually sharing mutual joy together, but that’s not generally how it goes and I hate to see so much suffering and exploitation normalized and spread across so many different places.
As a Transfem individual I didn’t necessarily feel excluded from TwoX, but I could see how other transwomen or AMAB transfem people might feel that way.
Edit: I’d love to see Witches V Patriarchy here too.
I would love witches v patriarchy too!
Personally, I could do without the porn. I don’t think every website needs to include porn.
federated porn 😉
I’ve actually meant to ask about this. I not only agree about the porn part of the site needing to exist, but I feel like it’s important that any federated platform have really terrible parts to it. I feel like I will truly trust the platform once it has places that I’m both uninterested in going to and also find disturbing. I’m not asking for this to turn into a right wing cesspool but there are several edgy communities such as r/WatchPeopleDie that I’d like a reappearance of even if I don’t browse them.
Do you know about mastodon? It’s way bigger than lemmy and a twitter alternative, and it has developed these kinds of spaces. They have NSFW servers and “free speech extremist” ones etc. With time I see this coming to lemmy as well. Don’t forget that a couple of days ago we were just a couple of hundred people here :)
That is true and yes I’m also on mastodon. Haven’t explored enough to notice that though, may have to take a look around now lol
check out freespeechextremist.com, stuff like that. Read the #NSFW hashtag on your server to find the porn posters and their servers :)
All the niche communities. I’ve been here for a couple months now but boy is that what we need.
niche communities are [both] hard AND easy.
some niche communites have a hard time staying active on ordinary reddit. (so therefore what does that mean for lemmy’s sucess rate)
on the otherhand:
reddit nich communites are such a horrific failure , in many cases, that literally one active poster would make lemmy versions massively superior to shitty mainstream reddit.
r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.
There’s !selfhost@lemmy.ml and !selfhosted@lemmy.ml
games, mechanicalkeyboards, fountainpens, boardgames, music, indiemusic, audio, audiophile, headphones, …
so many!
edit: photography (how’d I forget that one?)
I just went to check out !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml but it’s not very active. I’d like to see some new posts there.
(edit: how do you link to communities here?)
looks like https://lemmy.ml/c/mechanicalkeyboards. Not sure if there’s a way to quicklink yet.
I’m going by the hobbyist subreddits, but I think mechanical keyboards, headphones, cars, and pens might be popular here, I’m not too sure if all of these communities currently exist on Lemmy
Yes I also miss r/mk
r/Programmerhumor, r/Linux, r/Piracy, r/Apple, r/Playstation, r/me_irl
https://browse.feddit.de/ helps to find communities.
Oh, didn’t know about that. Thanks!
The good news is some of those already exist here!
I support anything creative, unfortunately I’m not seeing a lot of that yet. I build models, dioramas, scratch build buildings, etc.
I was tempted to start a general making community where all disciplines of making are supported, but as far as I can see on the app that isn’t an option.
I suggested a diy subreddit on the sub suggestion thread iver at beehaw
Same. It seems like there aren’t any active communities here about art, which is a massive shame.
The NSFW ones.
I should make a whole instance dedicated to that. Alas, I can’t afford it and I lack the knowledge.
Android but without the fascist moderation
I would love to see some of the specialized TTRPG subreddits (Pathfinder2e, Pathfinder2eCreations in particular for me, but I wouldn’t say no to D&D5e, D&D3.5e, as well). I saw there was a Pathfinder2e instance but with absolutely no activity whatsoever.
I was planning to start a Pathfinder community
TIFU
Amitheasshole
Conspiracy is always a fun read on Reddit - I feel like that requires a ton of nut jobs to really shine though.
Based on the few political posts I’ve seen, plenty of nut jobs here ready to shine - or at least a lot of very vocal Russian apologists blaming Russia’s imperialistic desires on the US
Conspiracy is already on here, isn’t it?
It’s the Lemmygrad instance
Ha, got em!
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Can I view that without joining that instance? What about communities on other instances? I need some help 😀
You could… if it was there and not here :P For an example of visiting communities on another followed instance: The communities page, with All selected
There definitely is one now
D&D/TTRPG subs like r/DMAcademy, r/3d6, r/Pathfinder2e, r/dndnext, r/dndbehindthescreen, r/dnd, r/dndmaps, etc.
Subs related to specific games I enjoy like r/Stellaris, r/Rimworld, r/crusaderkings, r/citiesskylines, r/slaythespire
Subs where design and cool information that interests me can be shared like r/vexillology, r/history, r/mapporn, r/dataisbeautiful, r/etymology, r/todayilearned, etc.
Neurodivergence spaces like r/Aspergers, r/AutisticWithADHD, and r/autism
Subs built around a certain kind of joke or humour like r/sbubby, r/expanddong, r/Polandball, r/highqualitygifs, etc.
Neurodivergence spaces like r/Aspergers, r/AutisticWithADHD, and r/autism
definitled!
add r/HSPI was thinking about starting a pathfinder community
Would love to see spaces for talking aboit neurodivergences too.
Some music subs I like to peruse like r/Headphones, HeadphoneAdvice, BudgetAudiophile, Vinyl etc. If anyone has some alts to suggest, let me know!
would love to see Beatmatch, DJs, and audiophile as well.
I also just made an Ableton User Group if anyone is interested in that
Yep +1 for subs like /r/vinyl, /r/audiophile and /r/budgetaudiophile
internet is beautiful
