!trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca

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..

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

!chronicillness@lemmy.world or more specifically (for me at least) !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

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.

!dadforaminute@lemmy.world 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!

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.

!elianscript@sh.itjust.works

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

• !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
• !fedigrow@lemm.ee to see which communities people are trying to grow

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

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.

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

Personal finance ones would be nice

!gamedev@lemmy.world - 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!

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.

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

!tabletopminis@lemmy.world

!battletech@lemmy.world

!wargaming@lemmy.world

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

!artshare@lemmy.world

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.

!airsoft@lemmy.world

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.

!americancivilwar@lemmy.world

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

!fallout@lemmy.world

Anything audio related...

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).

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

Well I am hosting the !cocktails@lemmy.world 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.

High quality gifs

/r/Cardano: !cardano@infosec.pub

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

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.

I would like to see more rpg discussion, I like that the !rpg@ttrpg.network 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.

!guineapigs@lemmy.world

!foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org

!thomastheplankengine@lemmy.blahaj.zone

!bunnynewsnetwork@lemm.ee

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).

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

!sysadmin@lemmy.world

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.

May be too specific but have been inconsistently trying to get !likethismaylike@lemm.ee 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.

!guineapigs@lemmy.world Its hard to pump up because posting other people's guinea pig pictures is kinda weird.

/r/Columbus . !columbus@lemmy.world 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. !ohio@midwest.social just isn't the same.

!petrats@lemmy.world

wallpapers and even more nieche: one piece wallpapers

!tomswifty@midwest.social for Tom Swifty jokes

https://lemmy.world/c/starcraft :(

I tried to make /r/asksciencefiction around the time of the API exodus from reddit. It got a bunch of initial traffic and even got the attention of the mods of the actual subreddit but ultimately I guess they decided to stay on reddit rather than encourage people to go to Lemmy. Anyway, the traffic has slowed to basically nothing and I've kind of lost interest in moderating it, not that it really needs it anyway since the community is like 20 users per month.

!asksciencefiction@lemmy.world

Anything about guitars. The most popular one has several days between posts, orhers have months or even years between posts.

It's probably the only thing I miss about Reddit.