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Didn't think about it before, but saw this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/26747873

Lemmy tends to have duplicate communities between different instances for many subjects, and this can make it hard to find information here. For instance, if i want to know if anyone has made a constructed language for birds, i have to go to the communities list and search for “conlang” and “constructed language”, open every relevant community i find, and search each of those.

The Lemmy search feature quite good, but having all the knowledge about one topic on one community makes it even better

There is a GitHub issue, but no planned deadline: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

I was looking around, and realised we don't have a single functioning equivalent to r/PhotoshopBattles. On a quick search:

• [email protected] - Completely empty and unmoderated
• [email protected] - Dormant for 2 years (with a mod who hasn't posted or commented on lemmy in 2 years)
• [email protected] - Finnish instance, but the newest post is from 6 months ago
• [email protected] - Dormant for 2 years (mod dormant for 1 year)

We should revive the lemm.ee instance, but imo there is merit to starting afresh with a name that isn't tied to a proprietary closed-source piece of software, like image edits or editbattles

If there's anyone who's interested, please take it up. I don't mind being a mod, but I can't be the main (let's be real, sole) contributor right now. I've got my hands full with [email protected], and that's just putting text on images, not even close to realistic edits like this demands.

[email protected]

Searching lemmyverse.net yields the following:

• [email protected] (most subscribers)
• [email protected] (most active users)
• [email protected] (last post 4 months old)
• [email protected] (empty)
• [email protected] (empty)
• [email protected] (active)
• [email protected] (only 2 posts)
• [email protected] (empty)

Niche communities:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Niche instances:

• [email protected] (empty, but on a topic-specific instance)
• [email protected] (one-way Reddit bridge, serves a different purpose)

My hunch in this case would be to leave the niche communities and instances as they are, and consolidate the rest to lemmy.zip (most active users).

Thoughts?

I mod and post at [email protected].

There is also [email protected], it has much more subs (~5K), but a lot less engagement. The ML community's mod also seems to have deleted their account?

I am not acquainted with the process for community consolidation and I am not sure if ML takes part in such initiatives. Do I need to reach out to the ML admins? What would be the next step if I wanted to propose [email protected] to be merged into [email protected] ?

Searching lemmyverse.net yields the following:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Both communities are actively moderated, but lemdro.id has much more activity. I think consolidating towards lemdro.id would be the best option in this case.

Writing prompts has consolidated from lemmy.world to literature.cafe!

[email protected]

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I personally love arcade racing games, but I found no community on Lemmy. There is a need for speed community, but it looks dead. Is anyone else passionate about arcade racing games and would be interested in this?

Searching lemmyverse.net yields the following:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

None of the communities are actively moderated, and only .world has activity in the past month.

Is this a case where consolidation towards .world is permissible, or would it be wiser to consolidate towards one of the smaller instances?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25393337

⚠️ Disclaimer: These aren't the best or only horror communities on Lemmy; they're just the ones I and others moderate. For more groups, use this link or the search bar. (Also, post below)⚠️

[email protected]

H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of humanity, where ancient, malevolent beings known as the Great Old Ones slumber in the depths of space or time. After Lovecraft’s death, the Mythos has been expanded and developed by many authors, including August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These and many other authors have helped to flesh out the Mythos into a rich and complex Dark Universe.

[email protected]

A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it’s many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

“cosmic horror… is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock… themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries… the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale…”

[email protected]

Our community shares lore-inspired content, links, and memes based on the SCP Fan-fiction universe.

[email protected]

For all your horror movie needs.

[email protected]

Horror book discussion, requests, news, trivia, best of, worst of, etc. All-inclusive horror literature community.

[email protected]

Analog horror can be seen as a descendant of creepypasta and found footage films. It draws inspiration from earlier works like The Blair Witch Project and The Ring, which utilized similar themes of manipulated media and unsettling narratives. The genre gained traction with the success of Local 58, No Through Road, and Gemini Home Entertainment. It is characterized by its use of low-fidelity visuals, cryptic messages, and a nostalgic aesthetic reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog media, often set between the 1960s and 1990s

[email protected]

A creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet. The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet.

These are just a couple communities i've fond online, feel free to add more below.

[email protected]

The title should be the first sentence, while the body should be the second.

[email protected]

This is a community for sharing your favorite stories from any tabletop game you’ve experienced!

[email protected]

Hey storytellers! 📖 Welcome to our cozy corner for short stories – whether you’re spinning your own yarns or diving into favorites. Grab a virtual seat, share your quick tales, and soak up the creativity. From original gems to cherished classics, let’s have a blast with bite-sized narratives. It’s all about the love of short stories and the joy of sharing. Join the fun!

[email protected]

A community for sharing short scary stories.

[email protected]

Is there a way to access engagement stats for a community to make a (daily) time series? Something along the lines of exporting data ever 24 hours at 2:00 UTC.

This is the data I am referring to:

Perhaps an API of some sort. A formal method that goes beyond writing a scrapper.

Proposal to consolidate [email protected] into [email protected].

World community has less activity and is not actively moderated. SDF Org instance is stable and well-federated.

[email protected] and [email protected] are both small, but moderated by active users.

Opinions on which should be the main one?

We've been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.

You can find them all on fedecan.ca under Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.

We're planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.

If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.

The new sections:

• What is the Fediverse?
• Getting started with Lemmy
• How does Lemmy work (in detail)
• How to find communities on Lemmy
• Mobile Apps for Lemmy
• Lemmy Alternative UIs

Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:

• Lemmy Privacy and Security
• How to open something in my instance
• How do I block a user, community, or instance

A previously written section that didn't get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/markdown

Future plans include

• Guides for Moderators
  • Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)
  • Moderation Best Practices
• Guides for Admins
  • Information on our infrastructure and setup

https://piefed.social/

Context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37413606/16581555

Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on [email protected] asking people which community there were missing.

I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can't be filled until we reach a higher population.

There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.

I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on [email protected] (now moving to [email protected] ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is [email protected], it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with [email protected], or [email protected]. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.