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What is a sub/community that you wish existed (actively) on Lemmy?

Maybe there are others like you and we can actually get it running, or maybe to already exists but you just don't know!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

There's [email protected], but it's been dead for a while. I kinda miss reading those stories about assholes getting what they asked for.

Another that was fun reading occasionally was scambait, where people would fuck with scammers to waste as much of their time as possible. I don't know if there's anything like that on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

A community for the car I own, no matter what it is. (With thousands of active members, of course. )

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Maybe not. Lemmy is very anti-car, it wouldn't take off here and would get massively downvoted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

I'm aware of that; doesn't mean that I can't still wish for it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm very new so I haven't explored much yet, but I wish there were more subcomminities of the communities, like for example on Reddit there's subreddits for metal, but also subreddits for specific artists within that.

Or how there's all the gaming communities but not many sub communities for specific games outside of maybe some of the larger games/game series.

I guess just more niche or deeper within a specific topic communities I'd say. But there may just not be enough people to go super specific with communities yet. Or I haven't found them yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

More women-oriented communities would be great. Skincare, makeup, women's fitness, female health, nail polish, aging. I'd love that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

A nail one would be great. Maybe we can make one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

All of the individual games I play and not just the general "gaming" subs. Plenty of video game enthusiasts on Lemmy; not enough to geek out over specific games. Or at least... Not the ones I play.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Same. I miss r/OldWorldBlues and other strategy game communities. Most likely there aren't enough people who are interested in that mod, so maybe I'll bug the Fallout comm for that lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

What games do you play?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I want lostmedia and unsolvermysteries communities to exist and be more active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 52 minutes ago

Ah I'd love for unresolvedmysteries to exist in an active form!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

unfortunately the things I would most like are things I don't currently participate in that I greedly would love to be in the loop about. so pathfinder, star trek online, and champions online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Pathfinder has communities here. It's just a shame that they're not more active

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

yeah im on it but like even the news from paizo is not regularly posted which is like I same the minimum it needs to get any traction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well, maybe we need to be the change we'd like to see in the community? Idk, I'm pretty lazy and busy so if I tried I'd probably give up after a few weeks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

yeah my original comment was on how im not active with them but I greedily wish there was active communities for my vicarious pleasure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

There is a whole instance for star trek!

Startrek.website. I don't think they have a community for the game though. Maybe ask one of their mods to create it? /u/[email protected].

Edit: how does one tag a user?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

To tag a user: @[email protected]

Some clients will start searching for users as soon as they you type the @ sign, at least Voyager does on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

im aware. star trek online is an mmo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

There appears to be nothing here yet that can rival https://old.reddit.com/r/advice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We don't have enough Linux discussion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Did you forget the /s?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Writing Promts was cool

and the camouflage community (I may be very biased lol)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Writing Prompts was cool

Well, you're in luck!

[email protected]

They just started reopening the community, so hopefully more people will participate.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

The one on .world just shifted to literature.cafe.

The .world one was set up by an occasional contributor to the subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Comic_Crits and ctpsd creatives. Somewhere to post personal comic art to share and receive feedback.

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