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

I'm looking forward to our first proper mystery like The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet or Celebrity Number Six. We'll know the Fediverse has 5 years to live max when this becomes the place to post that kind of thing.

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

One of my favourite things on Reddit was movie discussions. I've joined a bunch of movie communities with [email protected] being the most active but I would love if more people were on it!

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

We're trying our best

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy

We're going to be emulating the original subreddit, but I missed my witchy coven and recently became a mod

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yay! So glad to have this one over here!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Western North Carolina. I tried it on KBin and that place went tits up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

[email protected]

Currently I'm the only one posting there. And have yet to need to send out a physical card. But I have hope.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

r/vintagecameras

I created [email protected] as a replacement. So far it's just me posting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[email protected]

I miss my irreverent bantery geopolitical satire, and there's 0 chance of the Reddit mods helping the transition in any way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[email protected] would make me happy. I know the fandom is in a bit of a slump since Gen 4 ended like 6 years ago and Gen 5 wasn't very good, but I like my horsies. And if the Avatar fandom can survive not just Korra existing but no new shows for 11 years, we could survive MLP's drought.

A lively Brazilian community would also be pretty nice. There's a whole brazilian instance (lemmy.eco.br iirc) but it's a ghost town.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

[email protected] - I took it over several months ago and have tried to regularly share news that is relevant to developers and hobbyists. I think I've done an okay job, but it's still pretty low in search results when you search "gamedev Lemmy". While posts get a few upvotes, and some comments, almost no one else posts there.

The thing is, I like the Reddit r/gamedev community just fine and still visit it. I just don't trust Reddit as a company. So this is my way of trying to facilitate a healthy option, and follow the adage of "the grass is greener where you water it".

So if you're into video game development and the industry around it, feel free to join!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] really needs an active user base. It's inherently international and applies to anyone in any country who loves football/soccer. There are so many things going on in the sport at all times of year, not just in season.

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

I am mainly looking to fill the trans subreddit void! Reddit was a very good place to find other trans ppl and then ask questions and relay stories and such

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

[email protected] This community was abandoned, until I decided to become mod and give it some life(Guides and posts). There was some activity the past month, still nothing like the subreddit one, and it has 2k subs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have you ever considered moving it off lemmy.ml to another instance? Some people avoid lemmy.ml (https://feddit.nl/post/16246531)

Also, feel free to join us on [email protected]

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

Subreddit drama was pretty good for keeping track of drama in the space.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm trying to push a jump in userbase for the tabletop hobby centric communities on LW. I had modded the 40k community for a while, and just took on the tabletop minis community. I post content from blogs I subscribe to and as much of my original content as I can make, but I'd really like to see more growth as an alternative Reddit like space online that isn't as totally captured by the Games Workshop financial ecosystem.

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The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.

[email protected]

I took over the dead Star Wars community and have tried to shape it as much as possible towards a place online that actually talks about Star Wars rather than infighting and complaining about other peoples' taste of Star Wars.

Other spaces here like the airsoft community are pretty dead, though I try as much as possible to post when I can.

[email protected]

There is also the historical US Civil War community. I like history in general, and the U.S. Civil War has become a natural fit for me since in real life I often travel to places where I can go to related historical sites.

[email protected]

The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche

[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can’t see to find a Brazilian jiu jitsu one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No one seems to post much though

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

Male/masc feet pics. There is a dearth. And there is a silly default assumption that "feet pics" must always be female/femme and that really bothers me. Tho partly my fault for not contributing anything lately myself..

For anyone interested:

spoilerhttps://lemmynsfw.com/c/foot_fetish

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I tried to make /r/asksciencefiction around the time of the API exodus from reddit. It got a bunch of initial traffic and even got the attention of the mods of the actual subreddit but ultimately I guess they decided to stay on reddit rather than encourage people to go to Lemmy. Anyway, the traffic has slowed to basically nothing and I've kind of lost interest in moderating it, not that it really needs it anyway since the community is like 20 users per month.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

that's the sub i miss the most. is there any hope getting it going again?

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

Would it make sense to consolidate with [email protected] ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

asksciencefiction is about fantasy as much as it is about sci-fi, and about other fiction as well. it's for silly questions like "could Shaggy & Scooby have taken the ring to Mordor?" i would think that would make it a bad fit, but who knows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

After taking a look at that community, not quite since it's not strictly limited to the science fiction genre. Asksciencefiction is kind of a weird amalgam of subreddits which makes it hard to categorize. Think about the format of the Q&A sub /r/askscience and then tack on /r/fiction. It was more of a roleplaying subreddit than anything. Sometimes there'd be serious discussions, but the best replies were always from people who were roleplaying as people living in the fictional universe.

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

There is an on-going discussion on [email protected] about how we should maybe aim for more generalist communities rather than niche ones.

Maybe the AskScienceFiction niche could fit into the general sciencefiction community. Up to you

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