Someone recently killed another person because they thought they were trans (they weren’t) I would definitely call that irrationally afraid. Maaaaybe you could put it up as an extreme case but shit like that does happen. Trans people are afraid for their lives my dude.
Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven’t found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
It’s mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more
Well, you’ve encouraged me to make a comment! And given me a great community to watch Lemmy grow!
That’s great, happy I could help!
I’ll do the same :D
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Very true, and that’s why I think everyone on Lemmy should probably focus on a few core communities instead of spreading across niche ones that are empty. For instance, I think that photography communities (both .ml and .world, as well as other instances) would benefit from just posting to pics for now, to gain more traction on those ones.
Once we reach a constant flow of content, then it will be time to split.
On paper? Wtf? I don’t see that taking off. Is it a paranoid privacy thing?
What are you talking about
Individual game subs. Even a niche game usually had just enough of an active community that I could talk about it get help with pretty much anything.
The generic “Gaming” and “PC gaming” and even “BoardGames” crowd is here; but they’re mostly good for general news, not discussion of specific games. If I want discussion about lore in Baldi’s Basics, for example, I ain’t getting it in the general communities.
I feel you, I’ve been super active in a niche community of a game ( /r/ADCmains from League), and even though it was a salty shitshow, I enjoyed it there.
I got some of that fixed by joining a discord, but it’s not the same :/
Transphobia free content is what I miss most. Ever since the reddit influx, there’s been a huge rise in transphobia
I’ve removed one of the responses to this comment due to rule #2. It’s a fine line and I’m choosing to err on the side of caution and supportiveness.
It’s not so strange is it? It’s not like most people feel comfortable around trans people. It took a very long time before even black people were treated normally.
I don’t actually like the term phobia either. People are not “irrationally afraid” . They just prefer hanging out with people they are used to.
I don’t actually like the term phobia either. People are not “irrationally afraid” . They just prefer hanging out with people they are used to.
Weird how nobody ever gets this up in arms over terms like hydrophobia 🤔
Why? Also seems perfectly natural to me.
Exhibit A your honour
No idea what you even mean with that. Did you expect a response with “oh that’s strange, I’m sure everyone is really comfortable around trans people these days”.
They just aren’t.
I think instead of being hostile against people who admit they are not comfortable, maybe try to help and be a friend instead so people can start to understand that there is nothing to fear?
Trans people started one of the first mastadon instances and one of the first Lemmy instances as well. I think that’s really cool, and I don’t get why you would drop a oneliner with some kind of witty response when you can actually communicate with people here.
Hah, I love it.
It’s natural that you’re hostile to me, because you’re uncomfortable, but me, I need to suck it up and be friends with you, despite you making me uncomfortable, because as the person you’re “uncomfortable” with, the responsibility is all mine. You just sit there awaiting passive education, and feel guilt free dishing out your “discomfort” until then.
When I said I miss the transphobia free days of lemmy, that’s what I was talking about. Because this conversation we’re having right now wasn’t a thing even a few months ago.
Trans people started one of the first […] Lemmy instances as well.
Yes, I’m one of those trans people…
Communities for people with rare disorders or illnesses. And plant communities for specific plant groups, so not plants in general. But most of all, i miss the fact that i could search for very specific content to see what creative ideas other people had on how to do certain things. Or people who shared many years of experience and experimenting.
r/WritingPrompts. The !writingprompts@lemmy.ml community here only has a few posts.
And closely related: r/HFY
I think in general we just need more people… There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.
Certain informative, niche communities like /r/neovim, /r/prequelmemes, and er, um /r/sex. I know there are comparable communities here, but the volume is missing. OTOH, everyone is much friendlier here. And, a smaller user base means our comments don’t get buried among thousands. Also, I’m really enjoying new-to-me communities /c/risa.
I miss having large and active subreddits for the sports teams I follow. They were my primary source of news for the teams and games at threads were great.
I hope https://fanaticus.social/ can get more popular
This is the main reason I haven’t left Reddit. I dumped Twitter months ago, but I’ve got nowhere else to go for sports atm.
There is a cycling community that copies the reddit posts, but theres too few people to discuss anything with…
Centralized tv show discussions with episode discussion threads. That hasn’t happened yet :/
Tears of the kingdom content. Gimme those ridiculous builds
Some incredible stuff, and I’m sure the madlads in hyruleengineering have pushed the limits over the last few months…. But two fans and a steering stick are all it really takes.
I miss the idea of /r/outside. A kind of role play in a fun , not too abstract context.
I mostly miss my niche subreddits. If the subreddit only has 20-30 active users, that means 1-2 people hopped to Lemmy who might be interested in it.
surreal memes
You wanna start it? I’ll help you gather content for it and all…that was the only meme sub I ever liked. It spoke to the inner fifth dimensional Accordian Man inside me.
i just searched and it looks like there’s already one on an instance
I’m pretty much new to lemmy so i don’t even know how communities are made
There’s always late night Imgur.
I miss communities that I can ask a question to. When I have a problem with a plant, or a legal issue in Japan, or a question about bike brakes… It’s nice to have someone to talk to about it that knows more than I do.
