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What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Captain_Pieces@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally i'm looking forward to seeing twobestfriendsplay, arkhamasylum, whowouldwin, and respectthreads, on here.

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[–] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please can we have a "BuyNothing" or "Freecycle" Comunity? One for each city/region/area would be better but If needed we could have just one where post titles contain the location (SacramentoCA) before anything else. Then sorting / Searching would weed out the unwanted due to distance items.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel it probably makes more sense for location-specific instances to have their own communities for these things. So for example, have a Lemmy instance for London, e.g. london.lemmy.uk. Then have ~Freecycle@london.lemmy.uk community, which is for Freecycle posts in London.

Of course anyone from other instances can join, it just seems to make sense that something so location specific should be in a location specific Lemmy instance (of which there are a growing number).

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can I find out if there is an instance for Sacramento?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

At this point I don't see one. Lemmy is still quite small, probably less than 10,000 active users. I guess my comment was idealistic rather that realistic for right now.

There is a list of instances here: https://join-lemmy.org/instances

Also one of the instances has created a community browser that lets you search communities across instances, but I haven't seen anything freecycle related: https://browse.feddit.de/

Except maybe https://slrpnk.net/c/zerowaste?

I think your instance lets anyone create a community, so you could create a freecycle community for all until there are enough users to support regional ones.