I’m genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?
- MyNameIsIgglePiggle ( @MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.ml ) English41•2 years ago
I’m surprised to find there are no adult subs popping up.
I hit up my brother in law who is involved in the adult industry and he is going to spin up an instance that’s super ok with adult content in the next day or so.
Let’s face it, without porn tumbler disappeared, and I think Reddit will too when it bans anything nsfw
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) English15•2 years ago
This is the dev run instance, and we don’t have time to moderate that.
- Jarmer ( @Jarmer@lemmy.ml ) English6•2 years ago
Isn’t this the overarching problem with lemmy just in general though? I mean, I’m loving it here, but without GOOD moderation any community, no matter where or how it’s hosted, can become very bad very quickly. I’m not blaming you all at all!! I completely understand where you’re coming from, but this is the same scaling issues that mastadon faces right? Is there any idea about how to address this?
- ungoogleable ( @ungoogleable@lemmy.ml ) English6•2 years ago
The idea is federation. No instance is obligated to scale to thousands of users if they can’t handle it. If somebody else thinks they can, they’re welcome to try.
- SkyNTP ( @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 years ago
Reddit already relies on volunteer moderation. I don’t see how this is a barrier at all.
- beepnoise ( @mFcGlNBcfr@lemmy.ml ) English13•2 years ago
Thank you for your (brother’s) service 🫡
- Followupquestion ( @Followupquestion@lemmy.ml ) English33•2 years ago
This might be controversial, but I think the TwoX communities need space here. Don’t make them automatically appear on the front page, and hopefully their creators and moderators have the tools to keep them space but yeah, this site needs spaces like TwoXSex, TwoXChromosomes, TwoXPreppers, Beyondthebump, Mommit, Childfree, etc. I’m new here but didn’t find any of those on initial glance and like a great bar, you need women to show up and be seen/heard. Give them a safe space (see my comment on moderation tools) to transition to and I bet Lemmy would get lots of people to switch.
Also, to echo another person, we need a “master” list of communities, at least the umbrella ones. For instance /plants could be the umbrella for /botany, /trees, /gardening, etc.
Lastly, this site needs porn. Hear me out before you start judging. Nothing drives technology usage like porn. VHS and digital video are both huge because of porn driving widespread adoption. PornHub needs to spin up a server for its infinite catalog which ensures they get paid but also that minors aren’t being exploited.
Oh, feature Request, some kind of incognito mode in the mobile apps which lets people view NSFW media without it being in their history. Also the app should disable built-in messaging options while in that mode to ensure fewer bad decisions and bad outcomes from accidental texts of disabled midget porn to various contacts. Just an idea I had.
- Limeade ( @Limeade@beehaw.org ) English23•2 years ago
Maybe we can skip naming the women’s communities after chromosomes this time around. TheGirlSurvivalGuide is another good subreddit to reference as far as nice women’s support content. From what I recall, that support group gained in popularity after TwoXChromosomes was made a default subreddit.
Personally, I could do without the porn. I don’t think every website needs to include porn. There are lots of other places to go for that content. So much of it features abuse of women and honestly it’s quite refreshing when I find a site that doesn’t feature it. I really hate unexpectedly coming across someone choking a woman. I wouldn’t mind it so much if the bulk of it was adults actually sharing mutual joy together, but that’s not generally how it goes and I hate to see so much suffering and exploitation normalized and spread across so many different places.
- TaygetaDuck ( @TaygetaDuck@lemmy.ml ) English7•2 years ago
As a Transfem individual I didn’t necessarily feel excluded from TwoX, but I could see how other transwomen or AMAB transfem people might feel that way.
Edit: I’d love to see Witches V Patriarchy here too.
- miz_nocturnal ( @miz_nocturnal@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
I would love witches v patriarchy too!
- _cnt0 ( @_cnt0@feddit.de ) English4•2 years ago
Personally, I could do without the porn. I don’t think every website needs to include porn.
federated porn 😉
- CleoTheWizard ( @LimitedBrain@beehaw.org ) English16•2 years ago
I’ve actually meant to ask about this. I not only agree about the porn part of the site needing to exist, but I feel like it’s important that any federated platform have really terrible parts to it. I feel like I will truly trust the platform once it has places that I’m both uninterested in going to and also find disturbing. I’m not asking for this to turn into a right wing cesspool but there are several edgy communities such as r/WatchPeopleDie that I’d like a reappearance of even if I don’t browse them.
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) English13•2 years ago
Do you know about mastodon? It’s way bigger than lemmy and a twitter alternative, and it has developed these kinds of spaces. They have NSFW servers and “free speech extremist” ones etc. With time I see this coming to lemmy as well. Don’t forget that a couple of days ago we were just a couple of hundred people here :)
- CleoTheWizard ( @LimitedBrain@beehaw.org ) English5•2 years ago
That is true and yes I’m also on mastodon. Haven’t explored enough to notice that though, may have to take a look around now lol
- sexy_peach ( @sexy_peach@feddit.de ) English8•2 years ago
check out freespeechextremist.com, stuff like that. Read the #NSFW hashtag on your server to find the porn posters and their servers :)
- fossilesque ( @fossilesque@mander.xyz ) English3•2 years ago
mander.xyz has a ton of plant, botany, etc. communities. :)
- tmpod ( @tmpod@lemmy.pt ) English27•2 years ago
I think a light hearted /r/aww or /r/humansbeingbros would be quite nice to have.
Besides that, I have some specific game and tech subs I’d like to see.
My main focus on Lemmy, though, is to grow a Portuguese community, hence the instance :)
- drk ( @drk@lemmy.ml ) English2•2 years ago
!aww@lemmy.ml exists!
- tmpod ( @tmpod@lemmy.pt ) English3•2 years ago
Well spotted, that completely flew past me hehe
Than you!
- Star Lord ( @starlord2014@lemmy.ml ) English22•2 years ago
r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.
- PurpleMonkeyFeet ( @PurpleMonkeyFeet@lemmy.ml ) English7•2 years ago
There’s !selfhost@lemmy.ml and !selfhosted@lemmy.ml
- metaltoilet ( @metaltoilet@beehaw.org ) 22•2 years ago
All the niche communities. I’ve been here for a couple months now but boy is that what we need.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) 9•2 years ago
That’s what I think too, I think we need more of them before this will hit wider adoption. There are several general instances, which are great, but we need to start seeing more specific ones. I’m thinking ones that aren’t necessarily for “Sign up here for my instance” but more “Hey, here’s a few communities you can subscribe to if you’re interested”
- leanleft ( @leanleft@lemmy.ml ) English1•10 months ago
niche communities are [both] hard AND easy.
some niche communites have a hard time staying active on ordinary reddit. (so therefore what does that mean for lemmy’s sucess rate)
on the otherhand:
reddit nich communites are such a horrific failure , in many cases, that literally one active poster would make lemmy versions massively superior to shitty mainstream reddit.- Blaze ( @Blaze@discuss.online ) English1•10 months ago
Have you tried reaching out to them to talk to them about Lemmy?
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English18•2 years ago
The NSFW ones.
I should make a whole instance dedicated to that. Alas, I can’t afford it and I lack the knowledge.
- jax ( @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social ) English8•2 years ago
My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).
- KNova ( @knova@links.dartboard.social ) English5•1 year ago
I can give you a push in the right direction as long as you are comfortable running commands in a terminal. After the initial 15-30 minutes of technical setup, it becomes easy. But other than that I have no desire to run an NSFW community.
Let me know - I could even set it up w/ you and hand you the keys, per se. I just don’t want lack of tech knowledge to be a barrier to entry for anyone.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
You sound like a pretty great person and I really appreciate the offer. The biggest issue is money sadly, a fedi instance takes a lot of bandwidth and one dedicated to nsfw content will also take a lot of storage, both are things that in a vps would take a good bit of money and I’m already spending some, even if not A LOT, on my raccoonden.moe
The most band and storage heavy part of it is my radio which I host on a raspberrypi along with a mumble server, but there’s only so much the poor thing can handle on it’s own. Today I installed some neovim plugins and I already noticed using nvim feels a little slower, so I doubt a lemmy instance is a possibility.
- KNova ( @knova@links.dartboard.social ) English5•1 year ago
Lemmy is very lightweight in terms of RAM and CPU, but I agree storage would be a primary concern. Bandwidth TBD - I’ve only run my instance for about 24 hours
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
I wonder if another raspberrypi could handle it all on it’s own if it’s lightweight. But then again, it might need the same door that goes to the pi I already use and in that case things wouldn’t work.
It would be very cool to host it but I think I’m gonna limit myself to modding a sub for something I like.
- KNova ( @knova@links.dartboard.social ) English4•1 year ago
Well, whatever you do, what matters is you are here and engaging and building the community. That counts for something.
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
Someone in another comment brought up a good point, could the oemmy instance be set so that one can only link to pictures outside? That would prevent the server being overloaded
- The dogspaw ( @Thedogspaw@midwest.social ) English2•1 year ago
You could probably get a lemmy going in the cloud I know there are cloud services for mastodon don’t know how much it costs but I don’t think a small instance is that expensive just charge a fee of a few dollars per user and you should easily cover your cost and make a small bit of money as well
- makingStuffForFun ( @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
Can the images not be hosted on redgifs? Is there an option for external hosting?
- Trash Panda ( @raccoon@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
I dunno, I never hosted a Lemmy instance.
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English17•2 years ago
TIFU
Amitheasshole
Conspiracy is always a fun read on Reddit - I feel like that requires a ton of nut jobs to really shine though.
- lps2 ( @lps2@lemmy.ml ) English7•2 years ago
Based on the few political posts I’ve seen, plenty of nut jobs here ready to shine - or at least a lot of very vocal Russian apologists blaming Russia’s imperialistic desires on the US
- Billy_Gnosis ( @Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 years ago
Conspiracy is already on here, isn’t it?
- zekiz ( @zekiz@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 years ago
It’s the Lemmygrad instance
- GADG3Tm ( @Gadg3tm@midwest.social ) English3•2 years ago
Ha, got em!
- makingStuffForFun ( @makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 years ago
Can I view that without joining that instance? What about communities on other instances? I need some help 😀
- comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
You could… if it was there and not here :P For an example of visiting communities on another followed instance: The communities page, with All selected
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
There definitely is one now
- Clav64 ( @Clav64@lemmy.ml ) English17•2 years ago
Some music subs I like to peruse like r/Headphones, HeadphoneAdvice, BudgetAudiophile, Vinyl etc. If anyone has some alts to suggest, let me know!
- Nightfall74 ( @Nightfall74@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Yep +1 for subs like /r/vinyl, /r/audiophile and /r/budgetaudiophile
- datavoid ( @datavoid@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 years ago
would love to see Beatmatch, DJs, and audiophile as well.
I also just made an Ableton User Group if anyone is interested in that
- robcee ( @robcee@lemmy.ml ) English16•2 years ago
games, mechanicalkeyboards, fountainpens, boardgames, music, indiemusic, audio, audiophile, headphones, …
so many!
edit: photography (how’d I forget that one?)
- Lobstronomosity ( @Lobstronomosity@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 years ago
I just went to check out !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml but it’s not very active. I’d like to see some new posts there.
- robcee ( @robcee@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 years ago
looks like https://lemmy.ml/c/mechanicalkeyboards. Not sure if there’s a way to quicklink yet.
- Millie ( @Millie@lemmy.ml ) English16•2 years ago
I support anything creative, unfortunately I’m not seeing a lot of that yet. I build models, dioramas, scratch build buildings, etc.
I was tempted to start a general making community where all disciplines of making are supported, but as far as I can see on the app that isn’t an option.
- cavemeat ( @cavemeat@beehaw.org ) English10•2 years ago
I suggested a diy subreddit on the sub suggestion thread iver at beehaw
- HenryWong327 ( @HenryWong327@lemmy.ml ) English6•2 years ago
Same. It seems like there aren’t any active communities here about art, which is a massive shame.
- JakeSparkleChicken ( @JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social ) English15•1 year ago
If you want to see a specific community that doesn’t exist, then set it up and post some content! If you want the type of places to hang out that you had on Reddit, you need to create it, nurture it, and grow it. There’s no guarantee that Lemmy will be the place to land during the Reddit exodus, but it is a place to land, and a damn fine one at that. Putting my money where my mouth is, if you ever want to talk about calculators head on over to !calculators@midwest.social
- DivergentHarmonics ( @DivergentHarmonics@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Any hint to how to? I mean, there’s a reason why community creating is reserved for admins, and is there somewhere a guide doc for creators/mods?
- russjr08 ( @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net ) English3•1 year ago
If your instance allows it, you should just have an option to create a community on the front page - some instances prohibit community creation to just their admins. I believe beehaw is one of them, to more or less curate/organize the content there as far as I understand (someone from their team would be able to better explain/phrase it than I have most likely).
Currently, I don’t think Lemmy has a way to create communities on remote instances, so if you have a request for a community you’d want to reach out to their team (I imagine https://beehaw.org/c/support is a good place, but don’t quote me on that) to see if it is something they’d be interested in.
- DivergentHarmonics ( @DivergentHarmonics@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
@JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net Thank you, this can also be info for others. I’m afraid this is going to be community fragmentation anarchy. It’s already not easy to find subs without a categorised index … and then, hopefully there will be ways to move users/subs between servers. But let’s see how this matures.
… damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user …- russjr08 ( @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net ) English3•1 year ago
… damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user …
I believe you can omit tagging someone if you’re replying directly to them, but otherwise you’ve done it the right way (I don’t know how to get it to “highlight” the mention in the comment, but I can confirm I did get both a reply and mention notification so despite it not being highlighted it did still work)!
- DivergentHarmonics ( @DivergentHarmonics@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Wow thanks for the reply. Yes i knew i can omit it but wanted to mention both explicitly. That was one thing i never knew on Reddit, if users get notified when i “@” mention them or if stuff got cross-posted when people mentioned the r/sub. I feel a bit idiotic now, although i’m technically knowledgeable. Just not scial media adapted.
- russjr08 ( @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net ) English2•1 year ago
It’s all good! I feel like I’m constantly learning something new every day (which I’ll gladly take)!
I know on Reddit username mentions was a premium feature at some point, but I feel like I heard at some point it got moved to just being a general feature, cross posts required an explicit button click on a post to perform a cross post (similar to how it works here on Lemmy as well).
- JakeSparkleChicken ( @JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social ) English3•1 year ago
If you click on
Communities
and selectAll
, it allows you to search for Communities across all of Lemmy-Land, not just the instance that you’ve signed up on. I think that every instance can have its own separate community with the same name, but in a lot of cases that may even be desirable.As far as moving users/communities between servers, that’s Nomadic Identity. As far as I know, the only Fediverse project that implements it is the Zot protocol that Streams and Hubzilla are built on. ActivityPub does not support and it’s not on the roadmap as far as I know.
- DivergentHarmonics ( @DivergentHarmonics@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Community search: yes i know and used it. It’s just not useful if one doesn’t exactly know what keyword to search for. An index by general topc would be nice to have. I was thinking about making a sorting thread but really, a subforum would not be the right place for it.
Migration of data … well too much OT discussion coming to my mind.
- DivergentHarmonics ( @DivergentHarmonics@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I imagine https://beehaw.org/c/support is a good place, but don’t quote me on that
Seems to be a place at least for general discussion on this topic. Such questions have already been asked there.
- JakeSparkleChicken ( @JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social ) English1•1 year ago
I don’t know what the rules are on lemmy.ml, but some instances let anybody create a new community. There’s no guide or doc that I know of, but it’s as easy as making a post is. I just looked for a calculator community and couldn’t find one, so I made it. If lemmy.ml won’t let you make a community, either ask the mods there to approve one, or sign up on an instance that isn’t as locked down. You can even make your own instance and still federate with the rest of the Lemmy-sphere.
- deadh34d ( @deadh34d@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
I created and mod two subs on reddit, and I’d love to see them make their way over here, but I’ve had a child since creating those subs, and I just don’t think I have the time to do it anymore, sadly. Both subs seem on-board with the blackout on the 12th though, so maybe some of their members will find their way here. Maybe I’ll even point them here with a sticky on the 12th…
- autumnplains ( @autumnplains@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Definitely do a sticky! I’d be doing that for sure if I had your mod powers 😊
- Moonrise2473 ( @Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml ) English15•2 years ago
Android but without the fascist moderation
- Mir ( @Mir@lemmy.ml ) English15•2 years ago
r/Programmerhumor, r/Linux, r/Piracy, r/Apple, r/Playstation, r/me_irl
- leo ( @leo@feddit.de ) English5•1 year ago
https://browse.feddit.de/ helps to find communities.
- Mir ( @Mir@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
Oh, didn’t know about that. Thanks!
- comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
The good news is some of those already exist here!
- Vorthas ( @Vorthas@lemmy.ml ) English14•2 years ago
I would love to see some of the specialized TTRPG subreddits (Pathfinder2e, Pathfinder2eCreations in particular for me, but I wouldn’t say no to D&D5e, D&D3.5e, as well). I saw there was a Pathfinder2e instance but with absolutely no activity whatsoever.
- hbar ( @hbar@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 years ago
I was planning to start a Pathfinder community
- klemptor ( @klemptor@lemmy.ml ) English14•2 years ago
Here are the ones I’d most like to see:
- AskScience
- AskWomenOver30
- auntienetwork
- CozyPlaces
- crowbro
- EarthPorn
- FinancialIndependence
- fitness30plus
- GenX
- greyhounds and longboyes
- Guitar, JustinGuitar, LearnGuitar, and guitarporn
- hyenas
- menopause
- oldhagfashion
- personalfinance
- PetiteFashionAdvice
- Philadelphia
- rance
- retrofuturism
- RStudio
- ShitAmericansSay
- SimpleLiving
- space
- tattoos
- TeenMomOGandTeenMom2 because I love my stupid guilty pleasure trash TV lol
- TheGirlSurvivalGuide
- xxfitness
- And every single animal subreddit
- Wanderer Lagomorph ( @WandererLagomorph799@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
Both are a bit new and I still need moderators given the larger scale, but c/EarthPorn is now here, as is c/personalfinance
- leftylibra ( @leftylibra@lemmy.world ) English3•1 year ago
Happy to report that r/menopause has moved to c/menopause@lemmy.world
- Fly4aShyGuy ( @Fly4aShyGuy@lemmy.one ) English3•1 year ago
Yes, definitely personalfinance!
- sillypuddy ( @sillypuddy@mander.xyz ) English3•1 year ago
For an askscience alternative, I’d say check out: https://mander.xyz/c/nostupidquestions
For space stuff, I’d say check out https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy and https://mander.xyz/c/space
mander.xyz as a whole is meant to be science and nature focused.
Granted they’re all tiny and have low engagement, but it’s a start.
- worldcitizen101 ( @worldcitizen101@sopuli.xyz ) English2•1 year ago
I know we’re talking about moving away from Reddit but I don’t see this on your list and it sounds like it might be a match for your interests --have you taken a look at /r/badwomensanatomy?
- klemptor ( @klemptor@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Yep, that one’s good too!
- autumnplains ( @autumnplains@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
I’d be keen for RStudio!