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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The dragon communities

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I'm active on one but not the others, and I have a semblance of a plan.

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

i used to think dragons were cool before Drag came along

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Still are, that dumbstick doesn't change that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I miss standupcomedy and evilautistm but I'm not running them.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago (5 children)

[email protected]

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..

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

Love your posts there. Keep it up brethren 🫶🏽

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Basically every regional community. Think towns and states. Those were some of my favorite communities to engage with

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

[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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

[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!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

[email protected] -- Instance agnostic link.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

[email protected]

A way to softly encrypt/obfuscate your handwriting. Fun to get into with friends!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk about the apps, but on the website a direct link like that takes me to another instance, so I can't subscribe (without making an account on that instance). If you do the shortlink, it takes everyone to the community via their own instance:

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

[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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Personal finance ones would be nice

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

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The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.

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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.

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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.

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The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

High quality gifs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

/r/Cardano: [email protected]

For some reason, very few people interested in cryptocurrency practice what they preach. The people (to me hypocrites) prefer instead to use a closed-source centralized platform to talk about an open-source, decentralized currency. Baffling. The only crypto people that seem to practice what they preach are my monero buds.

/r/ArtisanVideos

It’s a ghost town without my posts.

And so many more that I moderate but refuse to close.


The only community I started that has been successful is EnoughMuskSpam

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Support groups are something I want to see grow on Lemmy. Anything from abuse, to mental health to chronic illness or addictions. There should also be a way to protect those communities from ableist trolls, a theoretical door so that not just anyone can see the feed. I think it's important to have that door, because there are people who no matter what you say, they will never have empathy or understanding for people going through those challenges. They will always find a way to convince themselves the person isn't worthy of empathy or respect. They will try to do harm, and so they should just be blocked out. I've sadly already encountered a bit of that on Lemmy.

But I will be honest, I don't have a plan of action laid out, I'm just throwing it out there. We saw some major platforms become null and unsafe. We should work to reestablish a safe space for folks dealing with those problems. It's even more important now while we're going through this breath-takingly crappy year. I myself do not have the skills or energy to moderate one of these groups. It would just be good to work toward having more of those here eventually.

Edit: It would also be cool if we could be more thorough about keeping out troll communities, prevent or discourage them from taking root here. For example fakedisordercringe on Reddit was a vile place. The redpill communities were bad too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

https://lemm.ee/c/freeflight

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 there’s that.

If this one got more activity, I could stop using Instagram completely (already dumped FB and Reddit).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One of my favourite things on Reddit was movie discussions. I've joined a bunch of movie communities with [email protected] being the most active but I would love if more people were on it!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

/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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[email protected] Its hard to pump up because posting other people's guinea pig pictures is kinda weird.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

posting other people’s 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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