Niche communities that are active.
I climb and miss the climbingcirclejerk subreddit. A very active group of like-minded douchebags taking the piss out of our favourite sport.
So far, it has been a challenge to find good niche communities. Either they’re dead or there’s like two people and they’re not nice people.
I was active in a lot of the picturesque ones before Lemmy clipped the ability to upload pictures without linking them from other places. That reduced my activity by a lot.
That’s probably a problem with your instance rather than Lemmy itself. LW uploads the pictures directly to their own server.
Do you know if we’re allowed to make accounts in other instances for uploads or if it amounts to “restriction evading” if our first instance has the restriction turned on?
As a mod, an admin asked me to make a Lemmy World account as it was discovered that, at the time, reports made by LW members are invisible to mods in lemm.ee so I hypothetically have the means, but I want to be respectful and not do something I’m not allowed to do with that, since I’m sure if it amounted to restriction evading, the origin story of the account wouldn’t change that perception.
Lemmy admins will set up the Pict-rs service when they’re willing to deal with and can afford it. Images take soo much more space than text and could be illegal (think child abuse).
I imagine if admins truly wanted to disallow images via text replacement (like “Imgur” or “.jpg” become “”.
You should be fine to use ibb.co or something. Throw the URL here:
It’ll display inline :)
If anything, I almost wish there were less communities. There aren’t many users, so what little content there is gets splattered across so many communities that I sometimes feel like the user-to-community ratio is one to one.
I understand why Reddit needed super niche subreddits, to filter their massive user base, but we don’t have that problem yet.
In fact, it’s even worse in our case, because each community can exist in duplicate on several instances - further fragmenting users.
I’m not necessarily saying it’s bad that we have so many communities, and hopefully we’ll grow in to them over time, but I do think people can sometimes get too focused on the Reddit mindset of creating a community for every little thing, when we just aren’t there yet.
Even worse is the lack of normie content.
Theres like 75 communities for Linux and theres only 1 post in the weightlifting community with the most subs and that post is “what kind of community is this?”
I like nerd shit, but I also like normie shit.
I don’t think weightlifting is very normie to a userbase similar to reddit. Reddit had many nerds and it seems so far Lemmy is even more nerdy. When I first came here I saw many posts about people creating their own Lemmy instances.
You’re on point. The niche communities are too niche right now now and content should be posting to the more general communities.
Except tenforward.
I wish there was a League of Legends community that wasn’t run by the main /r/leagueoflegends moderators and didn’t have official Riot Games endorsement.
The subreddit feels heavily censored and sanitized to make Riot look good.
Honestly, rather than a community, a way to make a multi-Reddit style views of communities.
There are many communities with the same subject on different instances. Lemmy is great with this but having user fragmented across everywhere is an issue.
This here is a really an issue at this early stage. I probably have 10 world news communities and I see the same news tens of times across all of them and then of course other news outlets versions of it.
Just block 9, atleast that’s what i do .
Yeah, I’ve thought of that but there are some articles that only get posted in one. I’ll probably start pairing it down and keep only the one with the highest amount of users and engagement.
I use Summit and can make multi communities. Works great!
I need a robust subreddit drama community. They can post from reddit (curating drama from there so I can munch popcorn and laugh without going there myself) and they can also post any federation dramas.
Basically, Mama needs her stories. But also can’t be bothered to go out and get them.
Cardiac support and ICD support. Those were two ones that I really found valuable after heart surgery and getting a pacemaker that exists on Reddit but I have not been able to find anywhere else. kind of lost a really important support structure to me when I left reddit. I know I could start one here but I’m just not the kind of person who is good at getting people to know about something that’s available.
Entrepreneurial or small business advice kind of community.
looks at blocked community list
Yeeeeah, probably less niche NSFW ones.
At the very least, it would be nice if I didn’t have to block a new AI generated porn community every other day
You can also block whole instances now.
Really just an observation, but we’re almost a year in and we still don’t have our own KarmaCourt.
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If I recall properly, there was a Mastodon instance dedicated to the fandom of the Eurovision Song Contest. Not sure what happened to it.
I think it was called douzepoints.social but I don’t think it exists anymore. Sad.
Well… Not really any, I just decided to create them.
There are ones that I’m planning to create in the future but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Just because they’re there doesn’t mean there is activity. That’s the main problem. It’s so fragmented it’s hard for those interested in a topic to find the same community.
The trick is you have to do it on an Instance with the correct demographic, also make sure to use tools like LCB to get them out to other instances, so they’ll appear in search.
The entire aviation instance disappeared, awhile ago,
and I wish it hadn’t.
Complaining about niche-communities existing, when the people in them care about them, is nihilist.
Let people have their own space: that’s the whole point of Lemmy, isn’t it?
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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