Ideally your answer is a sub that you are currently posting to but few others are posting to.

  • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
    49·
    10 days ago

    Basically every regional community. Think towns and states. Those were some of my favorite communities to engage with

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeOP
      8·
      9 days ago

      we gotta start broad and move local only as the population grows. so for example instead of Columbus you gotta start with Ohio. maybe Pittsburgh can hang out too

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      9 days ago

      I came here to voice this opinion as well. It’s one of the only things I miss about the other site. I have found people on Mastodon attempting to fill that void with regional hashtags though. YMMV.

    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      9 days ago

      Oh man, this brings me back. I remember passing notes in middle school in bootleg Elian script - I’m in my 30s now.

      It’s by far my favorite cipher because it’s easy to read, it’s easy to modify if someone else learns to read it, and you get a ton of artistic license with the way your letters look so long as they adhere to the basic framework. Really well formed Elian is unrecognizable as script to someone who isn’t looking for it.

      Thanks for this, subscribed!

      • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        9 days ago

        Hey hey, awesome! Yeah it’s super fun. And if you’re good at it (I’m not) it can be super creative!

        My buddies and I, and likewise those in this community, try to stick to the standard alphabet arrangement, so we can all read each other’s stuff. Though we do dabble in other puzzlery, using basic Elian as a layer of obfuscation.

        Welcome and enjoy!

  • Jeffool @lemmy.world
    14·
    8 days ago

    !gamedev@lemmy.world - 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!

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 days ago

    Not trying to remake it, because i already have a full time job being self employee and having ADHD

    I go back to Reddit weekly to check in with r/locksmith, r/lockshop, and r/accesscontrols

    There’s a wealth of knowledge to pull from there that Lemmy just can’t duplicate right now

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    12·
    8 days ago

    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.

    !warhammer40k@lemmy.world

    !tabletopminis@lemmy.world

    !battletech@lemmy.world

    !wargaming@lemmy.world

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

    !artshare@lemmy.world

    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.

    !airsoft@lemmy.world

    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.

    !americancivilwar@lemmy.world

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

    !fallout@lemmy.world

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      6·
      8 days ago

      Idk about the apps, but on the website a direct link like that takes me to another instance, so I can’t subscribe (without making an account on that instance). If you do the shortlink, it takes everyone to the community via their own instance:

      !witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca

  • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
    12·
    10 days ago

    Most of the video game subs, BG3 is active enough, but I like Tribes and EvE online and their subs are sorta dead. I know niche titles wont have as much discussion, but representation would be nice.

    • CMLVI@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 days ago

      I been posting to my little !elderscrollsonline@lemmy.world one for months. I think there have been under 5 people who’ve posted other than me in the last year. !motocross@lemmy.world as well, and that one I think I’ve been the only one to comment aside from when I asked if the community was dead lol.

      Just gonna keep it going, people will show up eventually. Probably. Lol

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    9 days ago

    Imma go through and try to post in every one I have relevant knowledge / experience in…

    I need to start up a good one for nurses / healthcare workers again on this server (sh has the right vibe for it too) but getting enough people on board for that is always tough. It’s good to have a vent space though because in the nicest way possible 90% of you do not understand hospital ettiquette at ALL (which like, fair, but DAMN).

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeOP
      2·
      9 days ago

      you know what, I wouldn’t mind a space like that for general healthcare workers or people in the helping professions. I’m in behavioral health but it’s gonna take ages to get that kind of community here. might have to band together under a bigger umbrella. at least we all kinda know what DC d/t NC Bx in f/u UDS means

      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 days ago

        Imo you just need to set it up so it’s nice and presentable and then do agitprop back in the old country when spez implements another one of his incredible ideas.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 days ago

    Well I am hosting the !cocktails@lemmy.world community, we welcome you!

    The ones I miss are the local city sub, haircare/curly hair, and the nonsexual nude threads, normal nudes and naked progress, and the draw me nsfw.

    • Furbag@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 days ago

      Just subbed, I love a good cocktail. Second that it would be good to have a version of /r/normalnudes on Lemmy.

  • tentaclenumber3 [she/they]@lemmy.ca
    9·
    8 days ago

    Support groups are something I want to see grow on Lemmy. Anything from abuse, to mental health to chronic illness or addictions. There should also be a way to protect those communities from ableist trolls, a theoretical door so that not just anyone can see the feed. I think it’s important to have that door, because there are people who no matter what you say, they will never have empathy or understanding for people going through those challenges. They will always find a way to convince themselves the person isn’t worthy of empathy or respect. They will try to do harm, and so they should just be blocked out. I’ve sadly already encountered a bit of that on Lemmy.

    But I will be honest, I don’t have a plan of action laid out, I’m just throwing it out there. We saw some major platforms become null and unsafe. We should work to reestablish a safe space for folks dealing with those problems. It’s even more important now while we’re going through this breath-takingly crappy year. I myself do not have the skills or energy to moderate one of these groups. It would just be good to work toward having more of those here eventually.

    Edit: It would also be cool if we could be more thorough about keeping out troll communities, prevent or discourage them from taking root here. For example fakedisordercringe on Reddit was a vile place. The redpill communities were bad too.

  • podperson@lemm.ee
    8·
    9 days ago

    https://lemm.ee/c/freeflight

    Not that the subreddit was enormously active, but would love to see more folks over here instead of reddit. Unfortunately I think a lot of that crowd is still stuck on Facebook too, so there’s that.

    If this one got more activity, I could stop using Instagram completely (already dumped FB and Reddit).

    • jimmux@programming.dev
      2·
      8 days ago

      Communities that are mostly on meta are going to be tough to shift. One of my main ones is Electric Unicycles, which has a lot of activity over there because people rely on it for organising group rides and such. It means even the subreddit is pretty small.

      I tried looking for less niche categories, like for Personal Electric Vehicles, no luck. The closest I found on Lemmy is for micromobility, but it’s pretty dead.