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.
You want benzodiazepines? They are basically erase memory from [0.00 to 24.0] so I definitely wouldn’t recommend.
/c/DSP. Digital signal processing, i.e. how to transform, filter, and live with digital signals (e.g. audio files, image files, video files, sensor measurements, etc.). It involves a lot of math, so unless we get R*ddit-like numbers I don’t really know how such a community could keep moving.
/Factorio
I wish Voyager would copy links in this format as I’m too lazy.
Maybe I’ll write a bot when I’m less lazy.
more music related subs, like bluegrass, old time, etc. and active users to go in them.
one for 1001albumsgenerator
Enlisted (the video game). I enjoyed the discussions on the subreddit. It’s already got a small community, so it’s no surprise that it’s nonexistent on Lemmy.
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.
I miss the “Tales from…” subs. Tales from tech support was regular reading material for me for many years, and in general just having a place to commiserate with others in the same field as you is wonderful. The other ones also helped me be more concious of what I could do to keep myself from being a nuisance to other professionals like my doctor and pharmacist.
More niche, I miss the gunpla sub a lot. We have subs for model making and tabletop miniatures, but the gunpla community was very well run.
In general, I think the lack of moderation tools has made it difficult for communities to do regular “event” posts and the like which used to really help keep subs alive, guide discussions, and gave good examples of the type of content that fit. Like it’s a lot easier to start a new conversation at a party where everyone is talking than to be the first person to speak up in a silent room.
We’re definitely smaller than the Reddit gunpla sub, but I’m really enjoying the gunpla community on lemmy. Everyone’s chummy and welcoming. I’d love to see any you’ve built!
I just want the communities that already exist to have more engagement. It’s pretty demoralizing making a high-effort post and getting only a handful of upvotes and no comments. And it’s like watching a hospice patient visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).
I think one of the best ways for folks to contribute to the health of Lemmy would be for everyone to spend some time on “all - new” (or even “all - top hour”) on occasion. “New” on Lemmy is not the cesspool of reposts and garbage that it was on Reddit (although there is a LOT of porn if you don’t have NSFW toggled off), and the quality of the first few pages of “top hour” is usually pretty good (except again for the porn, which it turns out gets pretty decent engagement). I visit “top hour” pretty regularly, and nearly all posts that are stuck in zero-engagement/minimal-engagement pergatory are simply niche content rather than bad content.
We added the scaled sort to help with that(it gives a boost to less active communities), but I don’t know if many people are using it.
I think one other thing that might help would be to adjust the “Active” sort. I believe it has some kind of hard-coded 2 day limit? So posts older than 2 days will not show up. The problem is that as the sort is working right now, it often displays posts that are 2 days old. This isn’t great for getting new content. It’d be nice if the “Active” sort (or any other other sorts) parameters could be configured somehow.
The active, hot, and scaled sort have that two day bump limit, but active uses the newest comment time for it’s algorithm, whereas hot uses the post creation time.
So the hot sort is better for new trending content, and active is better for topics with new comments.
active uses the newest comment time
I think this is what I don’t like about active sort. Just a single comment is all it needs to bump a highly upvoted post to the top. I feel like it should rather look at an aggregate of recent comments or something along those lines, so that a single comment doesn’t cause such a big effect. It’s kinda like if a single vote could move a post to the top.
Hot and Scaled are my main sorts. I alternate a couple of times a day. They get me the most interesting content.
I only check the first 3 pages of Active twice per day.
Edit: New is once per week and I generally regret it.
visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).
This will be a key moment towards Lemmy’s growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it’s so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out !fedigrow@lemm.ee, @Blaze@reddthat.com has started posting a weekly thread on “How is your niche community doing?”
I’ll check it out, thanks!
I wish lemmy communties existed for:
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- How are you doing today?
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- Did you discover anything new to your consciousnesses today?
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- I fucke’ed today. Here is how.
Anything else is irrelevant fuck’d up garbage.
Maybe try out !casualconversation@lemm.ee?
The one on feddit.uk is also great.
Hey hey hey there is a TIFU community already.
It totally needs more engagement though
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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
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.
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
oh, I would also really like a Law & Order community.
Yes please
A 90dayfiance community. Also a local community that posted more than once a week.
