Your favorite movie, series, or anything else really that you can’t find a community here (or maybe it just doesn’t exist)
Shitpostcrusaders
Research paper reading groups.
Like in general or regarding specific topics?
Initially in general, but if there was enough interest breaking into specific topics would be nice to
What’s your domain?
Math, electronics, algorithms, and chemistry are interesting to me
As a bonus behavioral economics
Algorithms sound interesting to me from a research paper perspective. Im a little intimated by the others.
Is this like a book club but for research papers?
yup!
Sounds like a good way to gain higher level reading literacy
Do you know of any other sites that have this? Sounds awesome
You’re welcome to post about papers and discuss them over in [email protected] to try to get this going for more specific communities!
A lab work group, like that one on Reddit. I cannot remember the name and I sure as hell will not go to that damned site, but it was basically full of graduate students and technicians that shared stories from their labs.
The labrats subreddit was kinda fun. I’m a chemist, but the chemistry subreddit was overwhelmed by people asking for homework advice, showing off bad caffeine tattoos, and getting upset when they couldn’t talk about drugs or explosives.
AskHistory or something similar.
Agreed. At the moment I get most of my history content from following @PugJesus
A history subreddit would be nice to see. It genuinely brings joy to my face to learn some interesting facts about the middle-ages. And overwhelming amount of Lemmy users need reminding of what happened in Cambodia in the late 70s.
Hopefully not as a bunch of really good question posts full of mod-deleted answers.
Hopefully, that aspect was awful.
Bicycle communities
[email protected] isn’t super-high volume, but it’s definitely not inactive. It gets a post every other day or so, and there’s discussion on those posts.
I feel like the real problem is where there aren’t enough people to even have a conversation. Once you’ve got people there, then just posting more isn’t that hard.
Micromobility is pretty active if you’re interested in product coverage and news. As for more organic content, it’s pretty infrequent in any of the existing bicycle communities ☹️
Nonsexual/therapeutic manual therapy/massage/bodywork page with research, techniques, theory, etc. anytime I try to find one, I only get porn ones.
I miss the nonsexual nudes groups from Reddit, Normalnudes and NakedProgress.
Also wish the curly hair group here was active.
It’s ok though, trading off for the smaller community here, it’s still better.
Cyberpunk RED TTRPG community.
Shadowrun TTRPG community.
Polandball.
A community for my home town.
A Canadian politics and current affairs community.
A community for some of the podcasts I listen to would be nice.
We have a few of those here, but they aren’t too active and they have a pretty narrow Overton window (ie, I tend to agree with most posts and comments).
I tried posting that kind of stuff. It was thankless. Nobody else started posting. I gave up.
Pinball machines and Arcade games. I can’t say I would be the backbone of such a group, but I would enjoy reading the posts from one.
More Star Trek and Linux communities. “I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more [Star Trek and Linux communities]!”
I second the Star Trek community
[email protected] needs more users - not enough mischief going on here
Daria, Entwives, and Tamagotchi come to mind. And maybe games like Caves of Qud or Project Zomboid.
Still follow those and a few other subreddits via RSS. Wish more communities would’ve switched to Lemmy. :(
Some sort of “Lemmy dev community” where devs hang out.
Something like the communities on the @programming.dev instance?
Old School Runescape.
Also, I’m really confused as to why chess doesn’t have an active community on Lemmy. Online chess has seen a big boom in recent years, and the demographics of chess players and Lemmy users should have a lot of overlap (i.e. the nerdy IT people), but for some reason the chess community here is more or less dead. Only anarchychess is active, which is great, but I’d love to have an active replacement for r/chess.
It’s pretty weird the meme community got going but the more serious one didn’t.
I mean it makes some sense as memes take less effort to post (they can also just be copied from r/anarchychess or similar places) and lead to some quick upvotes. I’m still confused about [email protected] having so little activity though.
It’s weird, but you need to prefix an exclamation mark to have the links to communities work in lemmy: [email protected]
Otherwise it tries to have you send it an email.
AnarchyChess seems to be doing alright here 😅
I’ll just be honest, from my perspective on lemmy everything outside of porn, linux and shitposts is lacking. Interaction outside the top of hot is a wasteland of non-existence, questions go undiscovered, comments are never read. We could all be more generous with upvotes to improve visibility.
For me sfw art communities, sports, and life protips would all be nice to see grow. I miss the old photoshopbattles too, but I think that’s just fallen out of style in general.
It’s one of the disadvantages of not having algorithms to push content up or down.
No, it’s a question of volume. Before reddit turned to shit, it used to work the same way, but niche communities could still thrive because there were enough people. Lemmy will be able to hold more communities as more people join
The porn is definitely lacking. Or so I am told. By a random person who knows a friend of mine.
Miss the subreddits for all my favorite podcasts, Discord just isn’t the same
