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 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’ve been posting things I find interesting to [email protected]. 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.
Subbed, I’ll try to make sure I respond/pay attention or post something once I figure out the vibe of what is supposed to be there.
Thanks, that would be great! And even if you don’t post anything, comments are always appreciated
Philosophy or at least philosophy memes.
Also, more signposting and less doom. All of my algorithms are so depressing already.
You just need a big blocklist. I wish it was easier to share/crowd source them
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.
I actually only found Lemmy because I was looking for another SA community online after my last one had toxic mods. Can’t say for sure what it’s like here but the SA comm here deserves more attention I feel like. Of course, I could probably post on there some more…
South Africa? System Administration? Sturmabteilung? Sleep Apnea?
Social Anxiety…
Aha, I see, thanks for clarifying.
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.
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.
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
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 :)
If Fedibridge becomes more active, it could help fuel more users and the rest will follow
By FediBridge, do you mean connecting different parts of the fediverse? Could you explain how it’s done?
No i mean this community
https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]
Its goal is to spread the word about the Fediverse
Well things like Piefed are built using a different language. But it is also a article aggregation platform. But being that it is on activitypub it should bridge and be connected. Meaning someone on Piefed will see this comment thread, respond, and never have to create an account outside their instance from their applications. We will also see their posts. As more social media platforms rise and are connected through activitypub, the user base of Lemmy doesn’t necessarily have to grow, as the content may grow through sheer connectivity.
I believe that may be what they meant.
Mastodon I think you may be able to see through Lemmy, I just can’t remember how
Yep you can see Mastodon to Lemmy and back again. Piefed goes a step further and pull comments from both platforms.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. How do you connect, for example, Piefed and Lemmy?
It happens natively on the backend through activitypub. So for insurance, I logged into Piefed, and made this response from there for show.
Which like email (which is the “og” federation) you can see both responses, and see the @ will show my response came from outside
-posred from lemmy
Ah, I see now. Thanks for the demonstration :)
I would like to see a subLemmy about making cheese and yogurt
They’re called “communities” on Lemmy, no need to bring reddit-speak with us over here
Doesn’t “subforum” predate Reddit?
You’re right, I’m bringing reddit into the picture where it was not even mentioned, I apologize. I meant to clarify that they’re usually referred to as “communities” and not “subLemmy” but did so in an unnecessarily snarky way.
subLemmy
Hey, I’m not gonna judge their kinks.
I appreciate your candor, find your way well-lit tonight my friend
It’s doing well but I would love to see more videos without the need for YouTube.
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.
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’ve tried to post a few things in the TTRPG communities and they rarely get many comments. It’s disheartening.
yeah I just a bit ago did a post that was sorta a life check. It really surprises me as I always thought of the communities as heavily geek which I would think would appeal to being here. I would expect by the time I came to something like this subjects like that would be well represented.
You’d think, wouldn’t you? I suspect it’s because we’re mostly middle aged (or older) so we’re not playing TTRPGs any more. But I am! And I demand posts!
I see so many sports communities to. Its like we are going to just let the jocks out nerd us!!!
What about [email protected] which isn’t the most active but exists, feel free to post content there.
And pretty sure there is a video game community too
Well as you say they are not active which is the part of the OP question “or become more active”. No matter how active I am on them it will not replace a whole community being based someplace. Its like star trek online was on reddit but most champions online activity is in steam. It comes down to key individuals who are massively into the thing who create the guides and content basically. I hung out at these places but I was not a driver. Im 100% I would have never put in the time to figure out the torpedo math, that is for sure.
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.
I see your point, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact what I’ve seen here wasn’t long creative writing essays, rather, photos with a very short description. Which is what I’m after.
People still share long posts under all sorts of contexts too, and LLMs train on everything. If you are holding on to prevent LLMs training then you might as well not post anywhere at all
I’m more of a I’ve been fucking up for weeks/months/years kind of person. Problems I gave cultivated when it should have been obvious they were coming
