I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.
I will comment more as I think of them.
An active Pikmin community
Once again here to say I’m surprised Lemmy has no equivalent to KarmaCourt.
Holy shit it’s been so long I had completely forgotten about KarmaCourt.
I think the reason we don’t is that Karma/Votes aren’t really tracked the same way over here?
Wasn’t the main point just to “sue” each other though?
I can only imagine how many of us are the type who’d find ourselves standing before Judge Judy.
Right, but I thought the thing they were suing each other over was like whether they were Karma farming? It’s been so long I’d honestly have to go look it up to be sure. Memory is foggy.
Duck posting? Benzodiazepines?
Wat
benzodiazepines
drug addict echo chamber subreddit
people like you like to pretend that Lemmy is so much better than Reddit, then you just walk around spewing hate about people you don’t know. why are you here? you’d be much more at home on Reddit with that attitude
I just stated my view on a subreddit. Was I incorrect? Don’t take it so personally
you just called me and my friends drug addicts and I’m not supposed to take it personally? I recently started having benzos prescribed for panic attacks, and it’s been a great resource for learning about my medication. then I have to sit here and listen to you shame me for talking to people about my psychiatric meds? Go sit on a wire brush.
I don’t believe for half a second that you don’t understand why it was taken personally, which means not only are you walking around insulting people for no apparent reason, you’re also playing dumb. I don’t fuck with either of those so I’m done talking with you.
A big benefit of the fediverse is that it’s still so small that it’s pretty easy to just block the assholes without a constant sea of new ones coming in to take their place.
Whoever the asshole you’re replying to is, I already have them blocked.
Literally scroll the front page of r/benzodiazepines
Ever venture over to crippling alcoholism? Loved that sub around 8-10 years ago
No? I like beer, but being intoxicated is not pleasurable to me.
oh, I would also really like a Law & Order community.
Yes please
!noscrapleftbehind
I certainly don’t leave any scrapple behind.
TIL a new english word
Idk what this is but why would someone spend time on such an animation?!
It’s from a game on the original Xbox called Whacked! One of the first games with Xbox live support
Lemmy is generally too small for it, but I liked the small regional subreddits like states, counties, and cities.
I know there is a Lemmy instance focused on Atlanta and Atlanta news but that’s about it.
Feddit.dk is doing pretty alright - it’s small, for sure, but it’s nice :)
midwest.social has a few for the midwestern states
Literally the only thing I miss about Reddit is my city sub.
I used to miss my local city sub more, but the current mods have basically turned it into a reddit version of Nextdoor.
10 years ago it was mostly punks and weirdos on the sub, then all the normies came and even the fucking local sheriff.
The local sheriff finally fucked off after he got called out for trying to hire a murderer from a neighboring jurisdiction.
I feel like if Lemmy could get big enough, we could get back to where the interesting people are all in one place again.
Our city sub never really had those kinds of issues, drama to be sure from time to time, but for the most part it was just a great place to learn what events were happening that weekend. Or get inside info on something that happened in the news, etc. I have checked in on it a couple times since deleting my Reddit accounts, but it’s not the same and feels off since joining lemmy.
I run a regional instance (lemmy.pt, for Portugal and the Portuguese language) and I definitely feel the hardships of Lemmy being so small. It’s very hard to grow more specialized communities when the overall pull of the platform is so small, since most people looking for ““niche”” topics would rather stick to the bigger communities on Reddit and whatnot instead of opting for the tiny thing going on the Fediverse.
Even on reddit, PT subs are hard to get active. There is /r/Portugal, literaciafinanceira and maybe devpt. I think you are stretching too thin.
Have you thought of just doing 1 sub on Lemmy.pt, and just add [tags] in the title or something? Once Lemmy.pt has enough users, you could slowly open more.
Yeah, sure. That’s because we’re also fairly small and Reddit isn’t really that popular, especially among older folks.
Regarding the 1 sub, I don’t think the issue is having too many communities, seeing as !portugal@lemmy.pt serves as a main hub and has pretty loose restrictions already. The issue is more of the overall visibility of Lemmy paired with the low usage of Reddit-like mediums in Portugal.
Well thanks for your service at keeping a regional instance running! It may not be my region, but I’m glad it exists at all!
I hope it eventually becomes a “if you build it, they will come” type situation. It will just take time and growth.
Yeah, hopefully! The instance exists since 2021 and we’re still small, even with the 2022 Reddit blackout. A lot of people registered then, but quickly realized Reddit was still bigger and went back. It’s a shame, but I’ll keep it running for as long as I can.
Someone had a Dallas or Texas group on here (I forget now), but they had such strict posting rules I stopped posting and the thing died pretty quick after.
There’s still a Texas one. I think Dallas and/or DFW died.
r/ireland was great (as well as the regional subreddits from Ireland). There is an Irish community (!ireland@lemmy.world)on Lemmy that I try to post to but there’s just not that much engagement at the moment, having said that, it has improved.
EDIT: added the community.
It’s really not possible unless Lemmy gets a much larger community, but the thing I miss most about Reddit are episode discussions for TV shows. For almost any show, I could be pretty confident that I’d be able to find a post-watch episode discussion. Those are great for seeing how people felt about the episode or to learn things I may have overlooked.
Yeah I always like to browse those too. You could start a community/post about the shows you’re following. I’m thinking of starting something for The Boys, since it’s starting now (maybe HotD too?)
Well if you do start one for The Boys I’ll prioritize watching the new season asap so I can contribute to the discussions. It looks like it’s already started last week, actually.
As for HotD, I can’t help ya there. After the last couple seasons of GoT I lost interest in that world. A shame, as I loved it while they still had books to follow.
Here it is :D (!theboys@discuss.online)
I will create a community somewhere soon (will look in lemmyverse.net and pick a nice instance other than lemmy.world :p), and leave you another comment when it’s ready, so you can subscribe :)
What they did to GoT after season 4 (probably my favorite; the Oberyn plot is just so good) is nothing short of a crime 🙃 Seasons 5 and 6 still have some good episodes and plot lines, but the lack of source material starts showing. Season 7 takes a deep dive and 8 just disappears into the void. It’s depressing to think about.
Still, I love the world too much and heard good things about it after a couple of episodes were out, so I decided to give it a try, and loved it. It’s very well done from a more “technical” standpoint (as was GoT, even in later seasons), but the writing is also pretty good. Give it a shot!Yeah, I’m sure I’ll eventually get over my disappointment at what the showrunners did to the original and will be in the right headspace to watch other GoT content, but not yet. I still can’t believe what they did to that formerly-beloved show. 😉
Anyway, I just saw your other comment. I’ll subscribe right away and will start the new season this week a so as to contribute to the discussion. Thanks for doing that!
No problem! I’ve created separate posts for all episodes, so feel free to chime in as you watch them :)
More UK/Europe based communities
Americans shoehorning (their own) politics and religion in every single comment thread is so unbelievably boring
Feddit.uk has been great since the admin swap.
does that happen a lot here or are you venting about the other platform?
The majority of users are surely from the US, and so questions that don’t specify origin but whose answers may be more properly dictated by knowing their origin end up getting answered by the majority US user-base, even though the original person asking the question isn’t from the US.
It’s fair that people from elsewhere shouldn’t always have to specify they’re from elsewhere because the entire internet does not exist just in the USA, the USA just has an outsized influence on the internet. I can see how that frustration could arise and why European-based communities would be helpful. It’s the same issue on reddit, if you’re not on a country-specific-level-sub, the default answers are from US users.
It’s genuinely an issue, and I say this as an American, mostly because I’m guilty of it myself. We absolutely dominate the online discourse and usually default to assuming questions that don’t specify where they are about must be American. It’s a very Amerocentric view of the world and the internet.
+1 for good UK/European communities.
Well put, but my point was that politics and religion shouldn’t ever be mentioned unless you want to start an argument. It’s just not a thing in civilised countries. You just don’t talk about it because nothing you say will change anyone’s beliefs about either subject in any way whatsoever, and it’s just antagonistic.
Americans will bring politics or religion into meme threads, shitposts, casual conversation, comic strips etc etc
If you’re not on a political sub or a news sub, you’re here for a laugh, and fuck me neither of those subjects is ever humourous
Pls stop 😅
my point was that politics and religion shouldn’t ever be mentioned unless you want to start an argument
Firstly, I agree that there is a time and a place and a lot of people seem to not know the boundaries.
That being said, bringing up a controversial subject isn’t always just about a fight. It might seem like it is, but sometimes we just want to discuss an issue.
Also, even arguing has its merit. While you’re not going to change the mind of the person you’re arguing with, you might sway the opinions of bystanders.
But yeah, I agree keep it out of shitposts.
Sorry about that. We’re struggling over here and it’s on our minds a lot.
The majority of users are surely from the US
Hmm citation needed? I’m not so sure a majority is from the US, even if US users is the largest group.
What I find most annoying is stuff like /c/news and /c/politics (on any instance) being actually only about US news or US politics. And then you need /c/world_news to be actual news from around the world. I wish more instances did what Beehaw did and made /c/news into the world news community and then made /c/usnews to be… well, US news.
Big tiddy goth girls.
Real issue
Did the lemmynsfw instance die or something?
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I’ve had an idea for a community based around recommending music to each other; you’d post a song or band and get recommendations. Basically a Build my Playlist community.
Like a “what are you listening to today?” group? Someone has been putting that on Ask and i really like it.
I dig the heck out of this. I’d sign up.
I wish there was more sports engagement, specifically college and pro football. It’s about the only thing that keeps me going back over to the other place.
I could follow a college football community. Is there a general one - not team specific? Maybe things will pick up in the fall?
There’s a whole sports server at fanatacus.social, but it doesn’t seem to get much engagement for some reason.
have you tried discord? That’s my favorite place to chat live sports
I mean, yeah, but the question was about what do I wish was on Lemmy.
Honestly I wish there were less communities. I’ve said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we’re lucky) active members.
This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.
I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a “video games” community instead of 500 specific game communities.
As a side note as well, I don’t think we shouldn’t be “allowed” to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that’s their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.
This is a good point. Reddit originally had no communities. Then there were maybe a dozen, all picked by the admins… and already /r/Atheism was one of them, because that’s how the userbase went. People who don’t understand why such a community was necessary do not remember living through 90s / 00s American culture.
When I moved to Lemmy from Reddit (about a year ago) and wanted to look for the equivalent of r/Ireland here, I was met with about 5 or 6 different communities (spread across various instances). You couldn’t really call any of them active, occasionally someone would post a link to a news article but there was no engagement.
Things have improved since then but I definitely agree with your point.
I honestly don’t think Lemmy will function well without a way for identical communities across different instances could subscribe to eachother, allowing a single feed of information. This would stop the instances splitting the userbase.
Early Reddit had a subreddit for everything, but most were dormant. However as soon as you posted on it, enough people had it on their front page that you’d get a response. I think Lemmy feels very similar to how Reddit did 10 years ago, except many of the dead communities are totally dead.
I disagree. There’s no problem with hundreds of niche communities. They create the opportunity for a real community to form simply by people subscribing to them. And if nobody posts on them, they are still there, not hurting anyone. But if someone does post on them, then everyone who is subscribed to that muni can see that post. So the worst case scenario is basically neutral, and the best case scenario is people have some posts in their feed for their niche interest.
Further, unlike at the outset of reddit, people are now really familiar with how thankless and time-consuming being a moderator is.
I’m not eager to have to manage a bunch of communities. If there’s a community that I wished existed, but I don’t care deeply enough to want to manage it, I’m not going to go out of my way to create it, which leaves the community non-existent. So I think having some ready-made communities from people willing to take on moderation duties is a good thing. Fewer people are willing to make the jump to be a moderator these days, and for good reason.
more music related subs, like bluegrass, old time, etc. and active users to go in them.
Tits sub
Ass sub
Resident evil sub
Lonely sub
I’d create them if it wasn’t so difficult to host my own Lemmy instance
Most smaller instances will let you make a new community.
Getting people to subscribe, that’s your problem.
