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Been wanting to start a 'bad graffiti' sub for a while
A bit clichê, but all of them
....well.... maybe not all of them....
People really need to start posting more. You can do scheduled posts so it's easy work
The main thing I miss from reddit is communities for specific games. It was nice that, whenever I started playing some game, there would be a subreddit for it where I could get advise and see what other people were doing with the game. There are very few on Lemmy. It's just too snall for that.
Niche interests. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't have enough of a population to get enough people/content for specific niches. Some things I specifically followed on Reddit were: fight stick controllers, Street Fighter 6, Wildrift game, dad/parenting communities, SBC gaming. On Lemmy there either isn't any activity at all for these, or too little to have regular content.
TBH I think it needs more mods/participants in existing communities before it starts sharding into more.
In other words, it’s the same problem I observe in many software dev communities: instead of building a new wheel, it’d be better to contribute to existing ones (and facilitate that discovery for others).
And, on that note, I think Lemmy needs better default algorithms to surface them.
I agree. I mod 3 and the reality is you've got to create the content. Some mods don't do that
I did that in the journaling community I mod. During 6 months or so I posted almost daily, then weekly content. I had to put it on hold for the last few months. But I had very little feedback all that time. After I put in on hold, at first there was no activity going on at all. Then, a few posts were created, and other members commented. There is still not much going on but it was nice to see nonetheless. Hope to see more :)
The real odd thing for me is that we gained a lot of new members (when I relaunched the community, there was probably less than 200 members, we're more than 900 today), and still almost no one is posting. Not sure why.
I think on reddit they said that a vast majority of content "posts" is made by a very small amount of users. I think it was less than 5% made 90% or something like that. I'm seeing the same dynamic on Lemmy/Piefed/ect...
When it comes down to it, power users are still a thing and getting them onboard on a platform helps quite a bit.
!peertube@lemmy.world
It's doing well but I would love to see more videos without the need for YouTube.
We have enough memes and politics and definitely US politics for three lifetimes.
Here's a bunch that I enjoyed, or wish for, or just found by browsing the community list:
click here for a list of communities that are NOT politics, tech, or meme -related.
Most are currently active (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked) Sometimes politics, tech or memes sneak in but they're not the focus.
GENERAL DISCUSSION / QUESTIONS
ART / PHOTOS
ANIMALS
COMICS / GRAPHIC NOVELS
ENTERTAINMENT
GENRES / STYLES
HISTORY
INFORMATION / KNOWLEDGE
OTHER
FEDIVERSE
FINDING NEW/GOOD COMMUNITIES ON LEMMY
There is a TIFU community and nobody posts there
Seems like people on Lemmy are too competent for it :(
All of those kinds of communities, where people tell anecdotes about their lives, turned into creative writing excerises for wannabe authors long before we had to worry about AI slop. TIFU, AmITheAsshole, RelationshipAdvice, etc. were all getting pretty derivative and sensational for clicks long before the exodus. Now they're all either that or illiterate attention seekers showing off the results of their latest LLM prompts. I liked those stories too, but I don't want anything to do with any of those communities anymore. It all just turned into a training ground for LLMs generating engagement. YouTube still tries to force those dumb AI story voiceover videos to me constantly. We used to joke that "nothing ever happens", but everyday that sentiment feels a little less cynical and a little more real.
Solarpunk and anything that is systems-minded and constructive.
I generally don't miss Reddit, but I do miss all the art subs. All the "imaginary" subs. ImaginaryBattlefields. ImaginaryCastles. Etc etc. 80s fantasy art subs. I like having a fair amount of art in my feeds as I scroll and I don't really get that with Lemmy. I am too lazy and distracted to create and moderate these subs myself.
Don't know how to link a community but I'd like more people posting on artshare and other art comms.
Also on the soulslike community :D
Edited to add some links :
You can link a community by typing ! and then the community name right after it, without spaces. I also like checking out the art communities.
Cast iron
Hot sauce recipes
Conspiracy weirdness, ghosts and shit
...maybe not in that order.
I really miss the highstrangeness community, imo it desperately needs a replacement.
I need intelligent UAP discussion again dammit!
Hard agree. Lemmy could do with a touch of woo.
I was looking for some eyebleach earlier and was disappointed to see how quiet all of the eyebleach communities are.
I've been posting things I find interesting to !discuss@discuss.online. I'm trying to grow it as a community that can have conversations about a broad range of interesting topics, without having to subscribe to a bunch of narrowly-focused communities. Think something like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but without the tech bro mindset.
I'll be that guy:
The NSFW communities. So far if I want to see anything new I'd still have to resort to reddit which also is becoming emptier by the minute, it'd be nice if we start moving those communities here
lemmynsfw instance is dedicated to porn. It’s blocked by some instances though.
This place is pretty neat and I’d like to see it become more active. If there’s enough demand for a community about a topic I know a fair bit about, I might just start it, or at least hope to encourage others to do the same :)
I'd like to see at least one of the music theory communities take off. The subreddit had a lot going for it, but it was extremely toxic in some ways. I'd like to see a nicer version of it here.
about Love2d - lua framework for creating games
I'd love to see the canning one be more active! Gardening has been more active than I thought it would be.
Local ones, but that probably depends on way more users joining for it to be useful.
I used to like reading the medium - long stories on the malicious complience subreddit. !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world just never really took off here.
Damn the quality of illustrations in https://lemmy.ml/c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works is superb.
Call out to !watercolor@lemmy.ml for those into their coloured waters.
JapanFinance, RideItJapan, JapanLife/JapanResidents -- the problem is, without the knowledge of people who have lived here for a long time, it's not that useful if created. The vast amount of experience of people with starting a business, dealing with visa stuff, dealing with legal stuff, etc. is what makes those reddit communities valuable. Some of us tried to get people to move, some created similar communities, but people didn't really move.
Wouldn't mind seeing more activity in sysadmin because it is the only subreddit I use.
rpg ones both mmo and pnp. I wish the communities were here. I also wish orgs would run their own domains for their members. like the world science fiction society or local makerspaces.
I wish the following were more active:
if anyone's looking for a community to start posting to, I encourage them to give one of those a shot.
More "curated" communities (like CuratedTumblr) that have higher submission standards. One of my biggest gripes with Lemmy in recent months is the amount of low effort "updoots to the left" memes and commonly reposted material.
Philosophy or at least philosophy memes.
Also, more signposting and less doom. All of my algorithms are so depressing already.
A big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.
I wish people would crosspost more or link to other related communities.
