I'd love to see more healthy food, fitness, weight loss and healthy lifestyle-related communities! Also, I don't think there's a community for 'petite fitness'? Would love to see that as well.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2024
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I've got one! Obscure textile crafts.
There are knitting/crochet communities of course, but all the super niche ones like ply-split braiding or smocking are too rare to warrant a whole community to themselves. On reddit there was a defunct sub called bistitchual, both for all obscure fibercrafts and for combinations of unrelated fibercrafts in one work. I wish we had it here.
I'm not seeing enough Linux content, are there any Linux communities on Lemmy?
Nope, sorry about your luck. Nothing on anime or Star Trek, either.
On reddit, there's a subreddit called r/lrcast, which is the dedicated subreddit for the Limited Resources podcast. The primary purpose of the subreddit, however, is not to discuss the podcast, but to discuss the "limited" format of Magic: the Gathering, which constitutes draft and sealed. It's a very difficult, very expensive format of Magic to play and is a niche subsection of an already fairly niche hobby.
Linux Audio
Desperately needs more upvotes
My niche interests.
- Nim-lang (this has some activity here, though I often have federation issues)
- Raylib
- low-poly+untextured polygonal art and vertex colors (both 2D and 3D)
I don't really consider myself an artist or a programmer (I haven't done much), maybe there's a fediverse instance that could work for me but it's probably too niche even just with those communities.
You might give the programming.dev instance a try for the first couple subjects, as they have an open [email protected] community that may work for them.
The problem is that they overlap, usually all 3 interlocked. The threads/microblogs I've tried barely get responses (again, federation may be an issue), let alone even answers for even something like Blender. I can use Nim w/o art but I don't have the ideas for it usually (or if I do other issues happen, including just lacking the desire to write for something like a game book).
I've mostly waited for something to improve, but a while ago I started my own simple polygon loader/format and I worked a bit more on that today. I think I made one of my own questions irrelevant (assuming my condition to detect strip vs. fan is correct) and added a couple of other improvements. I don't think it's at a point I'd share it, but I probably could (should) try to make a simple game with it soon.
Though I'd rather have 3D in Raylib (vertex colors not working with Nim bindings, Naylib) or more advanced 2D in Godot 4 (no Nim-lang bindings, and said feature is an unmerged PR that may not be performant enough for full game art).
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- distressing memes (nonexistent)
- incremental games (dead)
- antimeme/antimemes (dead)
- feedthememes (dead)
- what is this thing (dead)
- jerma985 (dead)
- weird websites (gone)
- diogenes would be proud (gone)
terminology explanations
- nonexistent means there is no community for it
- dead means there is a community with no (or very rarely) new posts
- gone means the lemmy instance for the community has been shut down
Ah, I remember the last 2. Poor fmhy.
Religion. I love talking to people about what they believe and why, and other philosophical discussions, but the two communities I created for those types of discussions have been dead since the Reddit exodus.
Probably not very popular, I miss the culture of r/morbidquestions that was the place to go for most weird topics without much judgment.
Basically all the media.
There is (or at least was) a special kind of joy in discovering a new piece of media (movie, TV, book, video game, comic, etc), getting to the end, and hopping over to the relevant subreddit to sort by "top of all time." Bonus points if you loved the series and would get to essentially relive it all over again through the sub, but even media that you hated or were neutral about could be fun subs to peruse; maybe you would get to revel in seeing something you hated turned into a meme highlighting how stupid it was, or get to feel justified in your negative assessment upon reading an epic rant from another user; maybe instead you'd find hidden details or explanations pointed out by other users that made you reassess the work ("huh, I though that was a stupid plothole but it actually was perfectly explained by that one scene that apparently went over my head"). The ATLA subs especially were treasure troves of tiny details and "holy shit I just noticed on my fifth rewatch" posts that really elevated my opinion (and thereby enjoyment) of a series I was initially kind of "meh" on.
When I think about what it would take to feel like Lemmy had sufficiently replaced Reddit for me, the number one practical answer is for comprehensive news (political, world, cultural, meme, etc... Reddit really did at one point feel like "the front page of the Internet" if there ever was one), and the second is to have the critical mass to be able to ask a question and get a good recommendation for any specific product or service, via regional subs, hobby subs, etc (although thanks to LLMs and corporate astroturfing that may simply be a bygone part of the Internet). But the "fun" answer is to have the critical mass for a wide range of specific fandoms.
Given the absence of specific communities (or active ones so far), if people would like they could start these conversations over in [email protected].
I recognize it's not the same, particularly for getting to those deep dive points you mention with ATLA, but gotta start somewhere, right?
Also I can easily give this go-ahead being one of the mods there. Up to now I've hesitated popping into threads like this and pointing people there because I'm not a fan of consolidation, but it's become apparent some simple meeting area may help to get more niche communities spun off and going.
Digital signal processing
I.....think I may be interested in learning about that?
DSP (digital signal processing) is the field of applied mathematics and engineering dedicated to transforming and manipulating digital signals.
Examples of real digital signals include audio files, image files, video files, and digitized recordings of various physical quantities by computers like the configuration of a robot as it moves in time, measurements of the processes in a factory, the trajectory of a spacecraft โ almost anything that can be periodically sampled and take on a finite set of values [1] can be seen as a digital signal.
DSP includes using tools like the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the Z-transform, wavelet analysis, probability, statistics, and linear algebra to do things such as filter a signal (example: audio equalizer), predict future values (example: weather forecasting), data compression (example: JPEGs), system identification (example: fit a model of the earth to predict seismic activity), control (example: make a DC motor to respond to position commands), and stabilization (example: keep plane from "wanting" to smash into the ground). Particularly, it requires a careful consideration of the effect of sampling a signal (example: if done carelessly, you can make the sampled system unstable [read: explode]), as well as an interpolation process of some kind if you plan on using that signal outside your computer (example: you want to hear an audio signal stored on your computer).
I got into DSP because I was an audio engineer and musician [2], and I wanted to design my own audio plugins. IMO I think almost everyone would benefit from some knowledge of DSP, but the math is really intense. Personally, I found out late in life that I have a nearly infinite appetite for math, so it's a good fit for me.
Here's a playlist about DSP if you're interested.
[1] Actually, a lot of basic DSP books don't restrict the signal to be in a finite set because it makes the math easier if the signal could be any real number. However, certain structures that would be exactly equivalent in theory are not equivalent on a real computer because ordinary computer arithmetic is approximate.
[2] I still play music, but not as much as before engineering school.
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.
The porn is definitely lacking. Or so I am told. By a random person who knows a friend of mine.
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
I miss r/livesound. It was a fantastic resource and a very active community.
The Pikmin community!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
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.
Not enough Lichess users ig
AnarchyChess seems to be doing alright here ๐
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.
Miss the subreddits for all my favorite podcasts, Discord just isn't the same
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 wouldโve switched to Lemmy. :(
r/HobbyDrama