I'd like more discussion in stock market or economy communities.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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When I first stumbled into Lemmy I kinda gravitated to the medical communities, but from day one they've all been pretty dead. Just added a couple more subs now prompted by this thread to see if there was an active one. Here's what I've got in my collection:
!medical_professionals@midwest.social
...sorted all of them by Top: Month, and there are a grand total of maybe 20 posts spread over only three of the communities. One of those three only showed a single post; and a pretty even split on the remaining two. The rest of them were empty. It's spread way too thin: I've only run into a few other medical peeps here on Lemmy - we don't have 12 communities worth of material.
I kinda wish we'd merge them... which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.
!medicine@mander.xyz and !health@lemmy.world were the two most active ones. Mander.xyz seems like a better home for medical talk, but the rules in the sidebar are far too strict for a community this size. !health@lemmy.world seems the best at the moment.
...and I'm 100% part of the problem I'm whining about. Outside of a couple introduction posts and questions for the community, I haven't posted anything there either. I should.
This is great! I think the ones that get more subs will generally rise to the top and people will start congregating there.
I'm seeing a bunch of upvotes on peoples comments here. I'm hoping that those people are also subbing to the communities they see in here.
I'm gonna try to remember to post this kind of question maybe once a month and over time we'll get communities popping off.
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!kitchenconfidential@lemm.ee I miss venting with a bunch of other cooks on reddit, but unfortunately this community is pretty inactive.
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!DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I'm trying to start a mental health support community that's skills based to hopefully help people who can't afford or otherwise access professional therapy.
Here's the wiki (the main page has a quickstart guide if you're looking for some things you can do today even just to maybe help stabilize yourself a little)
Here's a specific list of ways you can get involved with growing this community
I'd like to see a community for cool stuff happening in NYC.
I'd like to see more stuff for organizing protests and resistance, also for the NYC area.
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Kind of wish the mass effect community was more active. NGL I kind of ended up hating the subreddit after awhile so no idea what to expect from folks on Lemmy but seems like it'd be better based on other communities I've joined.
!guitarporn@sfw.community is basically dead, though I am as guilty anyone of not posting more.
!reallyshittycopper@lemmy.world has seen some posts lately but I wish it was more active.
!autoracing@crazypeople.online for motorsports.
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Scifi short stories are the only reason I go to Reddit anymore.
!doctorwho@lemmy.world
I think I did that right?
!cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk
!recipes@feddit.uk
!runequest_glorantha@feddit.uk
Basically the subs I mod. It would be awesome to see anyone new add content.
!ukraine@sopuli.xyz
Fuck Russia and their American agents.
The Yogscast community for one. That's what I sought out here first, and it's dead as the desert.
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I'd love to see the !gamedev@programming.dev community be more active. As it is, the dev communities here are far more quiet than they were on reddit.
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!pinball@lemmy.world
One can dream
Music theory and conlangs. There are several conlang communities - but they're all on life support (or worse).
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I'm a fan of these kinds of games, especially Smash Melee. Since leaving Reddit and Twitter, I feel pretty disconnected from them.
I'm trying to learn Japanese as a hobby, and it's slightly unfortunate that there's not much of a community for it here. I think the first two kinda split the userbase by having slightly different focus, preventing a definitive one spot. The third one is decently active though, mostly thanks to just a handful of people. The effort makes a big difference.
I really think so.
And I wanted to add, in general, I think communities here often work better at higher levels. Like in the examples from my post, smashbros is better than just the ssbm community. fgc, more realistic than communities for individual fighting games. Languagelearning > individual language communities, to an extent.
Since the Lemmy user base is small, I think zooming out is helpful. This place isn't Reddit and it doesn't work to try and replicate it 1-to1.
Mostly my local related communities !india@lemmy.ml but unfortunately it is no longer moderated.
!india@Piefed.social is still moderated And not on .ml, but smallish because it just moved over there (needed to move over from !india@lemm.ee because of .ee shutdown)
I know about piefed but not posting there since I tried creating an account with piefed and they said that you cannot create account from my ip region.
So kind of no point on having india community on a instance that doesn't allow account from Indian IP address
You should be able to post to !india@piefed.social from your sh.itjust.works account. Have you tried that?
Yes it works but some of the posts on piefed are not appearing on lemmy.ml donno why
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!mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social
I think I might be the only person here who plays...
Nerdcore.social. Ha! Sounds like i need to peruse that instance.
Is anyone else getting usenet vibes with this domain structure? I wonder if there's anything we can learn from that past experience that we aren't doing with lemmy right now. I wonder how many people were active on usenet in its heyday, and are hanging out on lemmy now.
Oh man, this is a cool feeling. It feels like fresh air after 20 years of using all those other corporate run sites. We have a future to look forward to, because the now is pretty chill with you lemmings!
DJs! I can't be the only one on Lemmy, but the community is completely dead.
https://leminal.space/c/Sidehustle. I seem to be the only one who joined after seeing it in new communities. I don't have much to contribute to it just yet as sonebody who wants to have a side hustle but isnt ready to start planning but i was hoping it might kick off with some discussions and info i could start absorbing from in the meantime.
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