I’m genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?

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    I’m surprised to find there are no adult subs popping up.

    I hit up my brother in law who is involved in the adult industry and he is going to spin up an instance that’s super ok with adult content in the next day or so.

    Let’s face it, without porn tumbler disappeared, and I think Reddit will too when it bans anything nsfw

    • Dessalines
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      1210 months ago

      This is the dev run instance, and we don’t have time to moderate that.

      • @[email protected]
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        Isn’t this the overarching problem with lemmy just in general though? I mean, I’m loving it here, but without GOOD moderation any community, no matter where or how it’s hosted, can become very bad very quickly. I’m not blaming you all at all!! I completely understand where you’re coming from, but this is the same scaling issues that mastadon faces right? Is there any idea about how to address this?

        • @[email protected]
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          The idea is federation. No instance is obligated to scale to thousands of users if they can’t handle it. If somebody else thinks they can, they’re welcome to try.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          Reddit already relies on volunteer moderation. I don’t see how this is a barrier at all.

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    This might be controversial, but I think the TwoX communities need space here. Don’t make them automatically appear on the front page, and hopefully their creators and moderators have the tools to keep them space but yeah, this site needs spaces like TwoXSex, TwoXChromosomes, TwoXPreppers, Beyondthebump, Mommit, Childfree, etc. I’m new here but didn’t find any of those on initial glance and like a great bar, you need women to show up and be seen/heard. Give them a safe space (see my comment on moderation tools) to transition to and I bet Lemmy would get lots of people to switch.

    Also, to echo another person, we need a “master” list of communities, at least the umbrella ones. For instance /plants could be the umbrella for /botany, /trees, /gardening, etc.

    Lastly, this site needs porn. Hear me out before you start judging. Nothing drives technology usage like porn. VHS and digital video are both huge because of porn driving widespread adoption. PornHub needs to spin up a server for its infinite catalog which ensures they get paid but also that minors aren’t being exploited.

    Oh, feature Request request, some kind of incognito mode in the mobile apps which lets people view NSFW media without it being in their history. Also the app should disable built-in messaging options while in that mode to ensure fewer bad decisions and bad outcomes from accidental texts of disabled midget porn to various contacts. Just an idea I had.

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      Maybe we can skip naming the women’s communities after chromosomes this time around. TheGirlSurvivalGuide is another good subreddit to reference as far as nice women’s support content. From what I recall, that support group gained in popularity after TwoXChromosomes was made a default subreddit.

      Personally, I could do without the porn. I don’t think every website needs to include porn. There are lots of other places to go for that content. So much of it features abuse of women and honestly it’s quite refreshing when I find a site that doesn’t feature it. I really hate unexpectedly coming across someone choking a woman. I wouldn’t mind it so much if the bulk of it was adults actually sharing mutual joy together, but that’s not generally how it goes and I hate to see so much suffering and exploitation normalized and spread across so many different places.

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        As a Transfem individual I didn’t necessarily feel excluded from TwoX, but I could see how other transwomen or AMAB transfem people might feel that way.

        Edit: I’d love to see Witches V Patriarchy here too.

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        Personally, I could do without the porn. I don’t think every website needs to include porn.

        federated porn 😉

    • CleoTheWizard
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      I’ve actually meant to ask about this. I not only agree about the porn part of the site needing to exist, but I feel like it’s important that any federated platform have really terrible parts to it. I feel like I will truly trust the platform once it has places that I’m both uninterested in going to and also find disturbing. I’m not asking for this to turn into a right wing cesspool but there are several edgy communities such as r/WatchPeopleDie that I’d like a reappearance of even if I don’t browse them.

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        Do you know about mastodon? It’s way bigger than lemmy and a twitter alternative, and it has developed these kinds of spaces. They have NSFW servers and “free speech extremist” ones etc. With time I see this coming to lemmy as well. Don’t forget that a couple of days ago we were just a couple of hundred people here :)

        • CleoTheWizard
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          That is true and yes I’m also on mastodon. Haven’t explored enough to notice that though, may have to take a look around now lol

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    I think a light hearted /r/aww or /r/humansbeingbros would be quite nice to have.

    Besides that, I have some specific game and tech subs I’d like to see.

    My main focus on Lemmy, though, is to grow a Portuguese community, hence the instance :)

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    All the niche communities. I’ve been here for a couple months now but boy is that what we need.

    • Scrubbles
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      That’s what I think too, I think we need more of them before this will hit wider adoption. There are several general instances, which are great, but we need to start seeing more specific ones. I’m thinking ones that aren’t necessarily for “Sign up here for my instance” but more “Hey, here’s a few communities you can subscribe to if you’re interested”

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      niche communities are [both] hard AND easy.
      some niche communites have a hard time staying active on ordinary reddit. (so therefore what does that mean for lemmy’s sucess rate)
      on the otherhand:
      reddit nich communites are such a horrific failure , in many cases, that literally one active poster would make lemmy versions massively superior to shitty mainstream reddit.

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    r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.

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    Some music subs I like to peruse like r/Headphones, HeadphoneAdvice, BudgetAudiophile, Vinyl etc. If anyone has some alts to suggest, let me know!

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      would love to see Beatmatch, DJs, and audiophile as well.

      I also just made an Ableton User Group if anyone is interested in that

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    I’m going by the hobbyist subreddits, but I think mechanical keyboards, headphones, cars, and pens might be popular here, I’m not too sure if all of these communities currently exist on Lemmy

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    games, mechanicalkeyboards, fountainpens, boardgames, music, indiemusic, audio, audiophile, headphones, …

    so many!

    edit: photography (how’d I forget that one?)

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    I would love to see some of the specialized TTRPG subreddits (Pathfinder2e, Pathfinder2eCreations in particular for me, but I wouldn’t say no to D&D5e, D&D3.5e, as well). I saw there was a Pathfinder2e instance but with absolutely no activity whatsoever.

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    I support anything creative, unfortunately I’m not seeing a lot of that yet. I build models, dioramas, scratch build buildings, etc.

    I was tempted to start a general making community where all disciplines of making are supported, but as far as I can see on the app that isn’t an option.

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      Same. It seems like there aren’t any active communities here about art, which is a massive shame.

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    Here are the ones I’d most like to see:

    • AskScience
    • AskWomenOver30
    • auntienetwork
    • CozyPlaces
    • crowbro
    • EarthPorn
    • FinancialIndependence
    • fitness30plus
    • GenX
    • greyhounds and longboyes
    • Guitar, JustinGuitar, LearnGuitar, and guitarporn
    • hyenas
    • menopause
    • oldhagfashion
    • personalfinance
    • PetiteFashionAdvice
    • Philadelphia
    • rance
    • retrofuturism
    • RStudio
    • ShitAmericansSay
    • SimpleLiving
    • space
    • tattoos
    • TeenMomOGandTeenMom2 because I love my stupid guilty pleasure trash TV lol
    • TheGirlSurvivalGuide
    • xxfitness
    • And every single animal subreddit
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    TIFU

    Amitheasshole

    Conspiracy is always a fun read on Reddit - I feel like that requires a ton of nut jobs to really shine though.

  • JakeSparkleChicken
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    If you want to see a specific community that doesn’t exist, then set it up and post some content! If you want the type of places to hang out that you had on Reddit, you need to create it, nurture it, and grow it. There’s no guarantee that Lemmy will be the place to land during the Reddit exodus, but it is a place to land, and a damn fine one at that. Putting my money where my mouth is, if you ever want to talk about calculators head on over to [email protected]

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      I created and mod two subs on reddit, and I’d love to see them make their way over here, but I’ve had a child since creating those subs, and I just don’t think I have the time to do it anymore, sadly. Both subs seem on-board with the blackout on the 12th though, so maybe some of their members will find their way here. Maybe I’ll even point them here with a sticky on the 12th…

      • autumnplains
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        Definitely do a sticky! I’d be doing that for sure if I had your mod powers 😊

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      Any hint to how to? I mean, there’s a reason why community creating is reserved for admins, and is there somewhere a guide doc for creators/mods?

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        If your instance allows it, you should just have an option to create a community on the front page - some instances prohibit community creation to just their admins. I believe beehaw is one of them, to more or less curate/organize the content there as far as I understand (someone from their team would be able to better explain/phrase it than I have most likely).

        Currently, I don’t think Lemmy has a way to create communities on remote instances, so if you have a request for a community you’d want to reach out to their team (I imagine https://beehaw.org/c/support is a good place, but don’t quote me on that) to see if it is something they’d be interested in.

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          @[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you, this can also be info for others. I’m afraid this is going to be community fragmentation anarchy. It’s already not easy to find subs without a categorised index … and then, hopefully there will be ways to move users/subs between servers. But let’s see how this matures.
          … damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user …

          • @[email protected]
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            … damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user …

            I believe you can omit tagging someone if you’re replying directly to them, but otherwise you’ve done it the right way (I don’t know how to get it to “highlight” the mention in the comment, but I can confirm I did get both a reply and mention notification so despite it not being highlighted it did still work)!

            • @[email protected]
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              Wow thanks for the reply. Yes i knew i can omit it but wanted to mention both explicitly. That was one thing i never knew on Reddit, if users get notified when i “@” mention them or if stuff got cross-posted when people mentioned the r/sub. I feel a bit idiotic now, although i’m technically knowledgeable. Just not scial media adapted.

              • @[email protected]
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                It’s all good! I feel like I’m constantly learning something new every day (which I’ll gladly take)!

                I know on Reddit username mentions was a premium feature at some point, but I feel like I heard at some point it got moved to just being a general feature, cross posts required an explicit button click on a post to perform a cross post (similar to how it works here on Lemmy as well).

          • JakeSparkleChicken
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            If you click on Communities and select All, it allows you to search for Communities across all of Lemmy-Land, not just the instance that you’ve signed up on. I think that every instance can have its own separate community with the same name, but in a lot of cases that may even be desirable.

            As far as moving users/communities between servers, that’s Nomadic Identity. As far as I know, the only Fediverse project that implements it is the Zot protocol that Streams and Hubzilla are built on. ActivityPub does not support and it’s not on the roadmap as far as I know.

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              Community search: yes i know and used it. It’s just not useful if one doesn’t exactly know what keyword to search for. An index by general topc would be nice to have. I was thinking about making a sorting thread but really, a subforum would not be the right place for it.

              Migration of data … well too much OT discussion coming to my mind.

      • JakeSparkleChicken
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        I don’t know what the rules are on lemmy.ml, but some instances let anybody create a new community. There’s no guide or doc that I know of, but it’s as easy as making a post is. I just looked for a calculator community and couldn’t find one, so I made it. If lemmy.ml won’t let you make a community, either ask the mods there to approve one, or sign up on an instance that isn’t as locked down. You can even make your own instance and still federate with the rest of the Lemmy-sphere.