I’m genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?
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r/PCMasterRace r/GameDeals r/Fitness r/BuildAPC
Subs that have good guides and community info
I’m surprised to find there are no adult subs popping up.
I hit up my brother in law who is involved in the adult industry and he is going to spin up an instance that’s super ok with adult content in the next day or so.
Let’s face it, without porn tumbler disappeared, and I think Reddit will too when it bans anything nsfw
This is the dev run instance, and we don’t have time to moderate that.
Isn’t this the overarching problem with lemmy just in general though? I mean, I’m loving it here, but without GOOD moderation any community, no matter where or how it’s hosted, can become very bad very quickly. I’m not blaming you all at all!! I completely understand where you’re coming from, but this is the same scaling issues that mastadon faces right? Is there any idea about how to address this?
I need some more sports communities. NFL, CFB, football/soccer, NBA, MLB, Hockey, etc. A lot of the very niche ones like certain anime (r/onepiece, r/kingdom, r/hunterxhunter) or book (r/asoiaf, r/stormlight_archive) or game (r/deadbydaylight, r/stellaris, r/EU4) probably aren’t going to get high enough populations to exist here so i don’t expect it. But I need the sport specific ones
It’s not very active right now but hopefully it will grow fast.
I just created a OnePiece community and hope it takes off, too. Help out by discussing and posting, please! :)
Here are the ones I’d most like to see:
- AskScience
- AskWomenOver30
- auntienetwork
- CozyPlaces
- crowbro
- EarthPorn
- FinancialIndependence
- fitness30plus
- GenX
- greyhounds and longboyes
- Guitar, JustinGuitar, LearnGuitar, and guitarporn
- hyenas
- menopause
- oldhagfashion
- personalfinance
- PetiteFashionAdvice
- Philadelphia
- rance
- retrofuturism
- RStudio
- ShitAmericansSay
- SimpleLiving
- space
- tattoos
- TeenMomOGandTeenMom2 because I love my stupid guilty pleasure trash TV lol
- TheGirlSurvivalGuide
- xxfitness
- And every single animal subreddit
Both are a bit new and I still need moderators given the larger scale, but c/EarthPorn is now here, as is c/personalfinance
Happy to report that r/menopause has moved to c/[email protected]
Yes, definitely personalfinance!
For an askscience alternative, I’d say check out: https://mander.xyz/c/nostupidquestions
For space stuff, I’d say check out https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy and https://mander.xyz/c/space
mander.xyz as a whole is meant to be science and nature focused.
Granted they’re all tiny and have low engagement, but it’s a start.
I’d be keen for RStudio!
I know we’re talking about moving away from Reddit but I don’t see this on your list and it sounds like it might be a match for your interests --have you taken a look at /r/badwomensanatomy?
Yep, that one’s good too!
The NSFW ones.
I should make a whole instance dedicated to that. Alas, I can’t afford it and I lack the knowledge.
I can give you a push in the right direction as long as you are comfortable running commands in a terminal. After the initial 15-30 minutes of technical setup, it becomes easy. But other than that I have no desire to run an NSFW community.
Let me know - I could even set it up w/ you and hand you the keys, per se. I just don’t want lack of tech knowledge to be a barrier to entry for anyone.
You sound like a pretty great person and I really appreciate the offer. The biggest issue is money sadly, a fedi instance takes a lot of bandwidth and one dedicated to nsfw content will also take a lot of storage, both are things that in a vps would take a good bit of money and I’m already spending some, even if not A LOT, on my raccoonden.moe
The most band and storage heavy part of it is my radio which I host on a raspberrypi along with a mumble server, but there’s only so much the poor thing can handle on it’s own. Today I installed some neovim plugins and I already noticed using nvim feels a little slower, so I doubt a lemmy instance is a possibility.
Can the images not be hosted on redgifs? Is there an option for external hosting?
I dunno, I never hosted a Lemmy instance.
Lemmy is very lightweight in terms of RAM and CPU, but I agree storage would be a primary concern. Bandwidth TBD - I’ve only run my instance for about 24 hours
I wonder if another raspberrypi could handle it all on it’s own if it’s lightweight. But then again, it might need the same door that goes to the pi I already use and in that case things wouldn’t work.
It would be very cool to host it but I think I’m gonna limit myself to modding a sub for something I like.
Well, whatever you do, what matters is you are here and engaging and building the community. That counts for something.
Someone in another comment brought up a good point, could the oemmy instance be set so that one can only link to pictures outside? That would prevent the server being overloaded
You could probably get a lemmy going in the cloud I know there are cloud services for mastodon don’t know how much it costs but I don’t think a small instance is that expensive just charge a fee of a few dollars per user and you should easily cover your cost and make a small bit of money as well
My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).
/r/boardgames and /r/emacs for me. I can get some of my boardgame fix on Mastodon but the more the better. I see that there is a [email protected] but not very active so far and not sure if the mod is still around.
Cat communities are definitely a rabbit hole that is fun to go down on Reddit. Sport ones like r/NBA and r/Formula1 are some of my most used subreddits.
We do have [email protected] on Lemmy if you want a sport-based instance. It’s dedicated to Australian Rules Football and the AFL. And if you don’t follow the AFL, now’s a great time to start 😊
Yeah this place needs a r/soccer alternative as well!
Hopefully we get it right and name it r/football this time!
r/Programmerhumor, r/Linux, r/Piracy, r/Apple, r/Playstation, r/me_irl
https://browse.feddit.de/ helps to find communities.
Oh, didn’t know about that. Thanks!
The good news is some of those already exist here!
Final Fantasy XIV. No, you have a problem!
r/piano r/Ukraine r/linux r/linuxphones r/philosophy r/geopolitics
At the very least Linux and Linux phones are a thing here, I’d love to see them take off though
Imo those would be a lot easier than other subs anyway, considering Linux users tend to prefer open source solutions as a general rule
Linux already exists, there’s [email protected]
Linux is pretty well represented so far versus most other topics
As a professional wrestling fan I want to see squaredcircle and aew official on lemmy
heck yeah!
r/squaredcircle r/formuladank
One for home theaters, and one for audiophiles.
Where’s the Grateful Dead community on Lemmy hanging out?
I’m not sure yet! Just joined up yesterday. I do see there’s [email protected] but it just has one user (well two now, I just subscribed).
r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.
There’s [email protected] and [email protected]
Some music subs I like to peruse like r/Headphones, HeadphoneAdvice, BudgetAudiophile, Vinyl etc. If anyone has some alts to suggest, let me know!
Yep +1 for subs like /r/vinyl, /r/audiophile and /r/budgetaudiophile
would love to see Beatmatch, DJs, and audiophile as well.
I also just made an Ableton User Group if anyone is interested in that
