I suspect most people aren’t subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that’s you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.
👏Let’s 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.
I’d love to see the [email protected] community be more active. As it is, the dev communities here are far more quiet than they were on reddit.
Shameless self-promotion: [email protected]
It’s like “On This Day”, “This Day in History”, etc. I’m currently the only poster but I don’t mind, I enjoy regularly looking for interesting anniversaries.
Post anniversaries on any topic you feel like; even personal anniversaries are allowed!
Liberal gun owners. (Don’t know how to link properly.)
https://old.lemmy.world/c/liberalgunowners
Such a great reddit community, or used to be. No toxic right-wing shit, just people showing off their builds and buys, asking questions, getting solid advice with no bullshit, talking laws and legal repercussions, linking timely news, loads of trans people posting. No judging! A new person could come in with the same damned question we’d covered 500 times. No problem! We’d all jump in and help.
Fuck I miss that place. It’s dead here. Also, I think there are a few people that go in there solely to downvote. Don’t know how to check logs, not interested enough to try, but it looks like assholes are trying to spoil it.
And FFS, NOW is the time left-minded Americans should be getting armed! Blacks, LGBTs and women have been the largest gun buying demographic for several years. They need help and they need a judgement free space to get it.
I was clear. I know it exists, it’s just dead and again, seems like there are some downvoting every post out of spite.
Join the moderation team and ban the persistent downvoters.
(can’t edit my posts)
I was NOT clear in my post. Sorry.
oh shit what uppp? on my way to federate
the sub probably blocks trolls. or deletes or bans them from the sub. alot of subs tend not to do it, so declines alot, hence the right wing push as the site as a whole. or it becomes too overzealous in moderation.
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
Fuck Russia and their American agents.
Short answer: All of them.
My Community Wish List:
Creative Communities
[email protected] - All things creative to share
[email protected] - Team up with someone or a group of people and write something together.
[email protected] - A casual space for writers to talk, post, or discuss anything.
Educational/Informative Communities
Positive News Communities
Humor/Funny Communities
[email protected] - Watch Comedy
[email protected] - Read Comedy
[email protected] - a.k.a. Awful Taste But Great Execution
edit: grammar
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.
Same but for the Los Angeles area. There is one but it’s dead.
I’m mildly proud of the fact that the Mini Apple has a more active community than the Big Apple, lol.
[email protected], and I’m like half of that activity and it’s pretty dead. Make it, post, and maybe you’ll have more luck, but local communities are tough given the small userbase.
(We also have a Democratic Socialist running for mayor, good luck to both Mamdani and Fateh!)
I think a lot of people got really mad at some admin or moderator at midwest.social and hence a lot of people moved off it. Can’t recall why though
I know. Biggest city in the country but we barely connect with each other on Lemmy. Anywhere in particular other than [email protected] ?
I’m not aware of any NYC communities, even inactive ones, on the fediverse, though I haven’t looked very hard. That link you provided errors out, if it’s supposed to work.
[email protected] is probably the best bet
voxpop.social has shutdown
Cool. I’ll subscribe, thanks
Haven’t seen writingprompts in a while, really liked that one.
I’d like more discussion in stock market or economy communities.
Same
We need more activity over there. I hope to make a post or two soon, but it’s sad only seeing a couple new posts before seeing things from months ago. C’mon 3D artists!!! Where ya at?
Also:
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (RIP)
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (RIP)
- [email protected]
Perhaps some consolidation might be warranted here?
Wow, quite a few pages there, but they all have the same problem 😞 not enough activity. C’mon Internet!
Would you consider making a consolidation post in [email protected]?
We have a pinned guide with step-by-step instructions.
Yes i would, actually. Give me some time to read through that, and have something typed up :)👍
Awesome! Let me know if you have any questions, or if there is any way I might able to help out.
I’ll sub to that. Been meaning to get more in to blender
Welcome in!😁👍
One of the most well-intentioned and reasonable spaces to discuss this type of stuff I’ve found, but posts are not frequent.
Subbed. I used to love Men’s Lib on Reddit.
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:
…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.
[email protected] and [email protected] 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. [email protected] 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.
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most of them are on reddit, and probably unaware that lemmy exists, plus there are still medical based forums out there too. probably hard to see out of the 50k users, which one will ask a medical based issue.
I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.
Not necessarily:
One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. “You don’t like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start your own community!” (with or without blackjack and hookers)
However, this is a double-edged sword. The creation of multiple communities on the same (or similar) topics can also fragment the userbase, leading to very sparsely populated communities.
I think it only makes sense to have multiple communities on the same topic if each version serves a specific niche or has a unique moderation style. I think most of the examples you’ve given would be suitable for consolidation into two or three communities.
More info on consolidating communities in the pinned thread on [email protected].
What are your thoughts?
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.
you forgot the “!” before the link
I think I did that right?
One can dream
