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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
I came here to voice this opinion as well. It’s one of the only things I miss about the other site. I have found people on Mastodon attempting to fill that void with regional hashtags though. YMMV.
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
!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.
This is a really good idea. Subtribe 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.
Yes! Lots of folks with chronic illness find themselves in a limbo where they can't get decent treatment or often precise diagnosis. Crowdsourcing relief has mixed results, but in such circumstances reports of rigorous trial and error with various approaches is sometimes helpful in the absence of the sort of care a lot of Americans now can't even hope for. I know this because I've been there. CIDP here since 2010.
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!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.
!fuckyournelsonlamp@lemmy.world -- Instance agnostic link.
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
!elianscript@sh.itjust.works
A way to softly encrypt/obfuscate your handwriting. Fun to get into with friends!
this is so cool, you will definitely see me there either every day or never or maybe once in a while
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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.
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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I been posting to my little !elderscrollsonline@lemmy.world one for months. I think there have been under 5 people who've posted other than me in the last year. !motocross@lemmy.world as well, and that one I think I've been the only one to comment aside from when I asked if the community was dead lol.
Just gonna keep it going, people will show up eventually. Probably. Lol
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
Agreed. Sports is one of the last things that tempt me to log back into reddit. The sport I follow has a community here and a little bit of activity, but not enough to keep game threads active.
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.
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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.
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).
Personal finance ones would be nice
/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.
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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.
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!guineapigs@lemmy.world Its hard to pump up because posting other people's guinea pig pictures is kinda weird.
posting other people’s guinea pig pictures is kinda weird.
Is it? I post other people creations on !lego@lemm.ee all the times, seems fair as long as you give credits
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High quality gifs
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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The banned ones.
Not all of the banned ones.
Not those banned ones.
Especially not that banned one.
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!tomswifty@midwest.social for Tom Swifty jokes
wallpapers and even more nieche: one piece wallpapers
I still have a few reddit alts that I lurk with, at least until we get enough activity on Lemmy on those topics:
- Sports discussion, including specific leagues and teams
- Discussion about my specific local city (and maybe the other cities I frequently visit)
- Things relevant to my career/industry in law
- Economics and financial news
- Food and cooking
- Television shows and movies, including specific shows or narrow discussions
- Super specific hobbies and interests, not just the stuff I'm personally into, but also knowing that there's a community around some other hobby so that there is lots of archived discussion where I can just click around and learn something new. For example, the most recent plane crashes in DC and Toronto, I went to the aviation community on Reddit to see what experienced professionals were saying about those things as the news broke.
Lemmy's good on all the tech and science stuff I like, and most of the memes/humor that I'm looking for. It's coming along on some mainstream interests, including the ones I've listed above, but still has a ways to go before the organic discussions reach the level of detail and expertise that reddit has. But it's on the right track, and I'm optimistic about those things filling in over time.
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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I said this before but we need an internet friend finding community like r/makenewfriendshere and r/needafriend
!tinnedseafood@lemmy.world
For those rare swifties here on the fediverse we have !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech and a more generic pop music one at !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech .
For Satisfactory fans there is also !satisfactory@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.
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