I love these kind of memes and try to actively post for a while now. I need to ask my Canadian friends at one point if I can mod that community, the only moderator is absent for a very long time now..
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oh I loved that sub in reddit! cool beans
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Basically every regional community. Think towns and states. Those were some of my favorite communities to engage with
we gotta start broad and move local only as the population grows. so for example instead of Columbus you gotta start with Ohio. maybe Pittsburgh can hang out too
I came here to voice this opinion as well. Itβs one of the only things I miss about the other site. I have found people on Mastodon attempting to fill that void with regional hashtags though. YMMV.
[email protected] or more specifically (for me at least) [email protected].
And when I tried to ask for information on some treatment it even earned me a downvote. Probably by someone sorting by scaled and not wanting that in their feed or so.
This is a really good idea. Someone in my family has a rare autoimmune disease (relapsing polychondritis), for which the only treatment is a drug (Methotrexate) which has lymphoma as a side effect. It's a fairly rare disease, with only a small percent of sufferers. I should start a community for it.
Since methotrexate is the only tool allopathic doctors have, and since homeopathy is a snake oil industry, there's a lot of "word of mouth" suggestions from people who've had success from a variety of approaches, some of which work for some people, others not. Low dose Naltrexone (off label), Plaquenil, and avoiding food allergies are things doctors aren't going to recommend because there are few scientific studies in them - because, again, nobody fucking studies the rare diseases.
Communities are really valuable for sufferers of more rare diseases. I think many people casually downvote such off-label approaches because they think it's some sort of anti-science, anti-allopathic medicine wackadoo, when in fact the diseases are so uncommon they're practically unresearched and certainly no pharmaceutical companies are researching cures.
Yes! Lots of folks with chronic illness find themselves in a limbo where they can't get decent treatment or often precise diagnosis. Crowdsourcing relief has mixed results, but in such circumstances reports of rigorous trial and error with various approaches is sometimes helpful in the absence of the sort of care a lot of Americans now can't even hope for. I know this because I've been there. CIDP here since 2010.
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[email protected] is great for people missing parents. Need a hug? DIY advice? Someone to be proud of you? There's a whole group of dads poised and ready to help!
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckyournelsonlamp
A fediverse successor to Tumblr's FuckYourNoguchiTable blog and Reddit's r/FuckYourEamesLounge. Interior design appreciation, (light) shitposting, and discussion beyond basic MCM staples.
Not trying to remake it, because i already have a full time job being self employee and having ADHD
I go back to Reddit weekly to check in with r/locksmith, r/lockshop, and r/accesscontrols
There's a wealth of knowledge to pull from there that Lemmy just can't duplicate right now
A way to softly encrypt/obfuscate your handwriting. Fun to get into with friends!
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Most of the video game subs, BG3 is active enough, but I like Tribes and EvE online and their subs are sorta dead. I know niche titles wont have as much discussion, but representation would be nice.
Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur's Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur's Gate 3 you create a Baldur's Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers' tits mod, which shall get its own group.
Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.
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I been posting to my little [email protected] one for months. I think there have been under 5 people who've posted other than me in the last year. [email protected] as well, and that one I think I've been the only one to comment aside from when I asked if the community was dead lol.
Just gonna keep it going, people will show up eventually. Probably. Lol
I miss the random passion of /r/CFB. It was great because all of the toxicity normally in sports was gone, and everyone was just enjoying the game and news about their teams. In the off-season people would concoct the most convoluted, elaborate shitpost for why their team is the best. I think my favorite essay was once about how the Alabama Crimson Tide's greatest enemy wasn't any other team, but the full moon, and went into a heavy statistical data dive to demonstrate how the teams few losses (they were seriously on an unprecedented run for over a decade) all came on or around the full moon. That and the team are the Tide, so of course it's the moon.
That type of energy focuses on college football is lacking in Lemmy, and I haven't found something similar here yet
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I'm trying to push a jump in userbase for the tabletop hobby centric communities on LW. I had modded the 40k community for a while, and just took on the tabletop minis community. I post content from blogs I subscribe to and as much of my original content as I can make, but I'd really like to see more growth as an alternative Reddit like space online that isn't as totally captured by the Games Workshop financial ecosystem.
The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.
I took over the dead Star Wars community and have tried to shape it as much as possible towards a place online that actually talks about Star Wars rather than infighting and complaining about other peoples' taste of Star Wars.
Other spaces here like the airsoft community are pretty dead, though I try as much as possible to post when I can.
There is also the historical US Civil War community. I like history in general, and the U.S. Civil War has become a natural fit for me since in real life I often travel to places where I can go to related historical sites.
The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche
High quality gifs
Well I am hosting the [email protected] community, we welcome you!
The ones I miss are the local city sub, haircare/curly hair, and the nonsexual nude threads, normal nudes and naked progress, and the draw me nsfw.
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Imma go through and try to post in every one I have relevant knowledge / experience in...
I need to start up a good one for nurses / healthcare workers again on this server (sh has the right vibe for it too) but getting enough people on board for that is always tough. It's good to have a vent space though because in the nicest way possible 90% of you do not understand hospital ettiquette at ALL (which like, fair, but DAMN).
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I would like to see more rpg discussion, I like that the [email protected] doesn't end-up an D&D community like in the alien website, but I would love to see more than one discussion thread per week.
Not that the subreddit was enormously active, but would love to see more folks over here instead of reddit. Unfortunately I think a lot of that crowd is still stuck on Facebook too, so thereβs that.
If this one got more activity, I could stop using Instagram completely (already dumped FB and Reddit).
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[email protected] - I took it over several months ago and have tried to regularly share news that is relevant to developers and hobbyists. I think I've done an okay job, but it's still pretty low in search results when you search "gamedev Lemmy". While posts get a few upvotes, and some comments, almost no one else posts there.
The thing is, I like the Reddit r/gamedev community just fine and still visit it. I just don't trust Reddit as a company. So this is my way of trying to facilitate a healthy option, and follow the adage of "the grass is greener where you water it".
So if you're into video game development and the industry around it, feel free to join!
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Beer stuff... I've added to the 2 groups I've found here. But, a lot more activity would be great.
I still Google with a "Reddit" tag when I'm looking for brewery suggestions in a new area I'm visiting. It's pretty helpful, but, I'd like to lean on the Fediverse more.
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May be too specific but have been inconsistently trying to get [email protected] going as a community to find alternatives/similar stuff to what one likes.
It's a riff on the old ifyoulikeblank subreddit without the initially unclear tagging requirements.
People comment, which is great, but few other posters.
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[email protected] Its hard to pump up because posting other people's guinea pig pictures is kinda weird.
posting other peopleβs guinea pig pictures is kinda weird.
Is it? I post other people creations on [email protected] all the times, seems fair as long as you give credits
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/r/Columbus . [email protected] exists but it never really took off and has been dead for 8 months. I haven't had anything relevant to post there, but if I find something good, I'll post it. [email protected] just isn't the same.
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wallpapers and even more nieche: one piece wallpapers
[email protected] and [email protected]
Go ahead and start posting. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE BYE
I still have a few reddit alts that I lurk with, at least until we get enough activity on Lemmy on those topics:
- Sports discussion, including specific leagues and teams
- Discussion about my specific local city (and maybe the other cities I frequently visit)
- Things relevant to my career/industry in law
- Economics and financial news
- Food and cooking
- Television shows and movies, including specific shows or narrow discussions
- Super specific hobbies and interests, not just the stuff I'm personally into, but also knowing that there's a community around some other hobby so that there is lots of archived discussion where I can just click around and learn something new. For example, the most recent plane crashes in DC and Toronto, I went to the aviation community on Reddit to see what experienced professionals were saying about those things as the news broke.
Lemmy's good on all the tech and science stuff I like, and most of the memes/humor that I'm looking for. It's coming along on some mainstream interests, including the ones I've listed above, but still has a ways to go before the organic discussions reach the level of detail and expertise that reddit has. But it's on the right track, and I'm optimistic about those things filling in over time.
Anything about guitars. The most popular one has several days between posts, orhers have months or even years between posts.
It's probably the only thing I miss about Reddit.
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The banned ones.
Not all of the banned ones.
Not those banned ones.
Especially not that banned one.
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I said this before but we need an internet friend finding community like r/makenewfriendshere and r/needafriend
https://lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy
We're going to be emulating the original subreddit, but I missed my witchy coven and recently became a mod
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I tried to make /r/asksciencefiction around the time of the API exodus from reddit. It got a bunch of initial traffic and even got the attention of the mods of the actual subreddit but ultimately I guess they decided to stay on reddit rather than encourage people to go to Lemmy. Anyway, the traffic has slowed to basically nothing and I've kind of lost interest in moderating it, not that it really needs it anyway since the community is like 20 users per month.
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