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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (17 children)

More women-oriented communities would be great. Skincare, makeup, women's fitness, female health, nail polish, aging. I'd love that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

unfortunately the things I would most like are things I don't currently participate in that I greedly would love to be in the loop about. so pathfinder, star trek online, and champions online.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There is a whole instance for star trek!

Startrek.website. I don't think they have a community for the game though. Maybe ask one of their mods to create it? /u/[email protected].

Edit: how does one tag a user?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

im aware. star trek online is an mmo.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

There appears to be nothing here yet that can rival https://old.reddit.com/r/advice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Comic_Crits and ctpsd creatives. Somewhere to post personal comic art to share and receive feedback.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't have enough Linux discussion

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Did you forget the /s?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Writing Promts was cool

and the camouflage community (I may be very biased lol)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The one on .world just shifted to literature.cafe.

The .world one was set up by an occasional contributor to the subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Writing Prompts was cool

Well, you're in luck!

[email protected]

They just started reopening the community, so hopefully more people will participate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Awesome thank you!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

What did it used to be

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

[email protected] exists and would need someone to start oosting content there I guess

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I never actually participated in discussions on there, but r/soccer is still my go-to source for keeping up to date with football news. That's probably the one I feel the most.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was on r/soccer a lot as well, and considering its size I don't know why the football communities are relatively small. Also, the .world one is effectively locked for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The main community was moved from .world to [email protected] in an effort to decentralise and spread communities out instead of consolidating on .world. It's somewhat active as smaller communities go on Lemmy, but nothing like the news hub you could use r/soccer for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

[email protected] seems to be the currently active football/soccer community on lemmy. Additionally there are club-specific communities hosted on fanaticus.social

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I really miss bpt sometimes. Can't stand to be on actual twitter, but reddit wasn't so awful a medium to discuss highlights when I was still on the platform.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reddit had a few really good and active lifting communities. There were interesting program reviews, sometimes everyone would run super squats together and report on the various effects of drinking a gallon of whole milk per day on the digestive tract. And I could help others join in and start lifting themselves into their best selves, since not many people in my real life circle are interested

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe at [email protected] ? I see there is some activity in there

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

You could try creating a lifting community on Lemmy, no? Who knows, maybe it would pick up?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

UsbCHardware

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Drones

Codes (about ciphers)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Regarfing drones, both [email protected] and [email protected] seem to be somewhat active

Regarding codes/cyphers, I wonder whether something like that exists and simply has an unintuitive community name.. because that topic definitely fits fedi well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can see posts from 2 months ago without scrolling down. You have a very different definition of "active" lol

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I feel like those topics should be prime for lemmy. Most people on Lemmy seem to be quite technical and well educated/smart. Programming.Dev would be a good home for those topics, no?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It exists but 100% not in the same form

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

[email protected]

But not run by the people from the og reddit, so its quality I dont know

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It’s quality on Reddit was from heavy moderation. It’s not that at all.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

SpeedofLobster! A good lobster always cracked me up.

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