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?

  • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    433·
    2 years ago

    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@lemmy.mlEnglish
      153·
      2 years ago

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

      • Jarmer@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        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?

        • ungoogleable@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          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.

        • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

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

  • Followupquestion@lemmy.mlEnglish
    323·
    2 years ago

    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, 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.

    • Limeade@beehaw.orgEnglish
      222·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • TaygetaDuck@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        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.

      • _cnt0@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

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

        federated porn 😉

    • CleoTheWizard@beehaw.orgEnglish
      164·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
        131·
        2 years ago

        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 :)

  • tmpod@lemmy.ptEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    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 :)

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
      9·
      2 years ago

      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”

    • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • Star Lord@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

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

  • Trash Panda@lemmy.mlEnglish
    192·
    2 years ago

    The NSFW ones.

    I should make a whole instance dedicated to that. Alas, I can’t afford it and I lack the knowledge.

    • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).

    • KNova@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I can give you a push in the right direction as long as you are comfortable running commands in a terminal. After the initial 15-30 minutes of technical setup, it becomes easy. But other than that I have no desire to run an NSFW community.

      Let me know - I could even set it up w/ you and hand you the keys, per se. I just don’t want lack of tech knowledge to be a barrier to entry for anyone.

      • Trash Panda@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        You sound like a pretty great person and I really appreciate the offer. The biggest issue is money sadly, a fedi instance takes a lot of bandwidth and one dedicated to nsfw content will also take a lot of storage, both are things that in a vps would take a good bit of money and I’m already spending some, even if not A LOT, on my raccoonden.moe

        The most band and storage heavy part of it is my radio which I host on a raspberrypi along with a mumble server, but there’s only so much the poor thing can handle on it’s own. Today I installed some neovim plugins and I already noticed using nvim feels a little slower, so I doubt a lemmy instance is a possibility.

        • KNova@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Lemmy is very lightweight in terms of RAM and CPU, but I agree storage would be a primary concern. Bandwidth TBD - I’ve only run my instance for about 24 hours

          • Trash Panda@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            I wonder if another raspberrypi could handle it all on it’s own if it’s lightweight. But then again, it might need the same door that goes to the pi I already use and in that case things wouldn’t work.

            It would be very cool to host it but I think I’m gonna limit myself to modding a sub for something I like.

            • KNova@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
              4·
              2 years ago

              Well, whatever you do, what matters is you are here and engaging and building the community. That counts for something.

              • Trash Panda@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Someone in another comment brought up a good point, could the oemmy instance be set so that one can only link to pictures outside? That would prevent the server being overloaded

            • The dogspaw @midwest.socialEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              You could probably get a lemmy going in the cloud I know there are cloud services for mastodon don’t know how much it costs but I don’t think a small instance is that expensive just charge a fee of a few dollars per user and you should easily cover your cost and make a small bit of money as well

  • Clav64@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

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

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

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

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

  • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    2 years ago

    TIFU

    Amitheasshole

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

  • Millie@lemmy.mlEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • cavemeat@beehaw.orgEnglish
      111·
      2 years ago

      I suggested a diy subreddit on the sub suggestion thread iver at beehaw

    • HenryWong327@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

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

  • robcee@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

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

    so many!

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

  • Mir@lemmy.mlEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    r/Programmerhumor, r/Linux, r/Piracy, r/Apple, r/Playstation, r/me_irl

  • Vorthas@lemmy.mlEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • klemptor@lemmy.mlEnglish
    151·
    2 years ago

    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