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

  • arrow74@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

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

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 month 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
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      1 month 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.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 month 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:

      [email protected]

  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 month ago

    [email protected]

    I love these kind of memes and try to actively post for a while now. I need to ask my Canadian friends at one point if I can mod that community, the only moderator is absent for a very long time now…

  • LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 month ago

    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!

  • tentaclenumber3 [she/they]@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 month 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.

  • hexabs@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    c/snackexchange

    I’m the only poster but don’t want to spam too much and look like a scammer.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    2·
    30 days ago

    Musician fan groups are pretty neat. There’s probably not enough people here to recreate that yet. Heck, the biggest music groups are kind of dead.

  • Jeffool @lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    [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!

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      0·
      1 month ago

      This is a really good idea. Someone in my family has a rare autoimmune disease (relapsing polychondritis), for which the only treatment is a drug (Methotrexate) which has lymphoma as a side effect. It’s a fairly rare disease, with only a small percent of sufferers. I should start a community for it.

      Since methotrexate is the only tool allopathic doctors have, and since homeopathy is a snake oil industry, there’s a lot of “word of mouth” suggestions from people who’ve had success from a variety of approaches, some of which work for some people, others not. Low dose Naltrexone (off label), Plaquenil, and avoiding food allergies are things doctors aren’t going to recommend because there are few scientific studies in them - because, again, nobody fucking studies the rare diseases.

      Communities are really valuable for sufferers of more rare diseases. I think many people casually downvote such off-label approaches because they think it’s some sort of anti-science, anti-allopathic medicine wackadoo, when in fact the diseases are so uncommon they’re practically unresearched and certainly no pharmaceutical companies are researching cures.

      • SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 month ago

        Yes! Lots of folks with chronic illness find themselves in a limbo where they can’t get decent treatment or often precise diagnosis. Crowdsourcing relief has mixed results, but in such circumstances reports of rigorous trial and error with various approaches is sometimes helpful in the absence of the sort of care a lot of Americans now can’t even hope for. I know this because I’ve been there. CIDP here since 2010.