Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company do. And when you go in global it’s “Amercan Politics” “Elon Musk Bad” “Stealing data”, “our world ending”
Recently my brother and I where bored, and I went to show him we moved to lemmy, and said we had memes and all the stuff here. And looking at top memes, it was “complaining about big tech”, and “complaining on windows”.
And, I miss a bit all I had on Reddit not going to lie.
So is there any active community with some positive things anywhere you’d recommend. I just feel like I’m in a bad angry environment.
I’ve got:
Edit: Wow! If you come after, I’d truly, truly invite you to look around in the comments, people here truly changed the way I see Lemmy, its way different now! Way better!
I’m guessing it has to do with our early-adopter status still. Gotta remember, we’re still the scrappy little underdog that only the weirdos know about. We are all weirdos, you, me, everyone else. Being here is sufficient to make that true. Over time that’ll change, but for now we’re just too unknown still.
So, what you have here is a lot of idealists that disapprove of reddit, a lot of people that got banned from reddit and can’t go back, and a lot of tech bros and excited young people in general.
You can probably see how these different demographics can kinda come together to create what we see around us here, while a lot of the more “normie” content is still mostly back where we came from. (for us reddit refugees anyway)
That said, you can find a small handful of support group communities for things like alcoholics, and the food and cat subs tend to be fairly active and not so much of a constant clickbait downer. The various AskWhatever subs aren’t bad either, though activity is still very light.
We’re still in the very early stages though, a phase that’ll probably last another year or two. Give us time, we don’t even have our software at full functionality yet.
If you are a Trekkie, you can join the premier meme community in the fediverse, !risa@startrek.website
As a 40 something, I tend to find memes tedious, boring, and unoriginal. Like, to the extent that I actively block every meme community that pops up on my feed.
Except Risa. It’s my favorite community on Lemmy and makes me laugh multiple times per day.
Lemmy memes are pretty bad on average, to be honest. Like… tons of “le outdated le cringe” from the least funny parts of Reddit about 10 years ago, actually about as funny as rage comics (which I think I’ve seen posted here, actually)
Same here. 90% zero effort memes, not worth it for the 10%.
Rosa memes are actually unique much of the time. And they call back to memorable scenes… so win win.
Everyone is agreeing with you on the first point, but I have to agree with you on Risa! It’s my favorite part of the fediverse so far, by far.
I’ve peaked into it, sadly I didn’t get on the Trek community when I was young. My mom bought a huge amount of DVDs of them but told us it was not for me as I was too young to watch with her. I’ve only seen the movies
I only got into trek within the past year. I just finished TNG last week and have started on DS9. I totally didn’t expect it to suck me in the way it did. TNG is fantastic
All of my subscribed lemmy communities have no new content.
I just want some reasonable and active communities. Those “wholesome” based communities often end up feeling really fake.
Yeah, forced wholesomeness can be exhausting too. I just want normal convo where people aren’t cramming their doom shit down your throat.
I replied to an ask lemmy post about how I stay positive with things going to shit, so I said how and people literally were trying to drag me down into doom. Like: “how dare you think this way, this is why you’re wrong and should be feeling more negative.”
Yeah, for most people it’s “God it’s terrible out here. I’d like to do things that make me feel better.” And some folks hear that and go, “yeah you’re SUPPOSED to feel bad because the world is bad and you should actually be MORE angry and upset so that you’ll join my political project.”
Which, like, has some truth to it. Capitalism is bad, true enough.
But if someone is just looking for connection, entertainment, and some good times to carry us through the bad… probably not the best time to recruit them into a political cause. Well, you could, if your political project has a big component of joy to it.
But I get it. I also get burned out just trying to stay informed. And maybe I just wanna talk about the new jazz album I found yesterday (black classical music by Yussuf Dayes) or the new game I’m stoked about (Sea of Stars). Good art would exist under any political system, after all!
You gotta browse through the list of communities and go more niche lol. For example, I’m subscribed to stuff like aquariums and plantscaping, travel, NFL, horror movies, awwducational, 2000snostalgia, food, ramen, true crime. Of course local communities, my state and local area for example. I like birds, so birding, why not? I’m watching kaiju movies now, so I subscribed to a kaiju community. Specific games I like. Specific music genres I like, shoegaze for example, but alternativenation’s an easy start. Explain like I’m five (ELI5) and Today I Learned (TIL) are popular and not full of downer stuff. I’m subscribed to stuff even if there are no\few subscribers, because one day, there will be more.
The only thing that sucks is that I’m also subscribed to tech and news, and being that those communities are the most popular, they’re always flooding the top of my feed. Sorting by “hot” helps.
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Can you give tips re: plantscaping and aquariums? They were some of my favorites on reddit but I’m not sure what they’re called over here.
Hey! There’s !aquariums@lemmy.ca, !aquariums@lemmy.world, and !aquariums@kbin.social. The lemmy world one’s a bit more active, but I don’t care, I just subscribe to them all lol. I haven’t found a substitute for r/PlantedTank or r/Aquascape yet though. Someone’s created !plantedtank@kbin.social, but it’s dead.
Edit: I just realized there’s !reeftank@lemmy.world and !ReefTank@kbin.social if you like saltwater!
Pop over to !ukcasual@lemmy.world There’s a few non-Brits signed up, so you’ll won’t feel left out. Bring some chocolate Hobnobs and we’ll put the kettle on.
Great idea, I’m moving there in one week, so that’s a great idea
Pre-emptive welcome!
Thank you very much!
Cool! Then you may want check out !unitedkingdon@feddit.uk or !london@feddit.uk
Not to jump right on you lol, but I think there’s a typo in your first link. M vs N maybe?
Ah! Yes, fat fingers on mobile! !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
Upliftingnews on Lemmy.World is a good one. I’m on kbin so not sure how to link:
@upliftingnews@lemmy.world
I’ve got the tip to put a ! Instead of the @ in front so that no matter where you are on the Lemmy verse you can open it!
I think you also need to add the name behind of the serv: Like this : !upliftingnews@lemmy.world Edit: Yeah like that!
If you like art there’s…
also
I’ve curated some other art communities in the side bar at !artistlounge@lemmy.ml including watercolour, art share and one of the photography communities
There are also lots of science and nature communities on mander and beehaw, if you search by ‘all’ in the communities tab at the top, type and just go down a few rabbit holes…nudibranchs, orchids, botany, minerals, geology, animals and pets etc all exist, you just need to start searching
Happy trails :)
edit forgot !awwnverts@lemmy.world and [!natures_patterns@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.ml/c/natures patterns@lemmy.world)
There are some surprisingly active craft communities here that are by definition pretty wholesome, but I guess probably not that interesting if you’re not into the specific hobbies themselves. ymmv. You can find a sticky thread with a ton of them listed here https://lemmy.world/post/1715954
Just took a look and subscribed to some of those to learn a bit!
Thank you! This is a great community!
I am missing the catsubs. Calicos, voids, standard issue, whatevers. Feline fanciers posting pics of their purr machines. Doesn’t seem to be a thing here.
Although I enjoy getting into the trenches with politics here on Lemmy, I’m really happy to have found a community (not on Lemmy) where I can find people like what you’re looking for, just a place where everyone, for the most part anyway, is nice and friendly and supportive. Unfortunately, it won’t do much for you unless you’re a fan of a somewhat obscure American TV show because you wouldn’t get our endless references.
What show?
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
