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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The NSFW ones.
I should make a whole instance dedicated to that. Alas, I can’t afford it and I lack the knowledge.
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…).
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.
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
Can the images not be hosted on redgifs? Is there an option for external hosting?
I dunno, I never hosted a Lemmy instance.
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
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.
Happy to report that r/menopause has moved to c/menopause@lemmy.world
Yes, definitely personalfinance!
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!
I’d be keen for RStudio!
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!
If you want to see a specific community that doesn’t exist, then set it up and post some content! If you want the type of places to hang out that you had on Reddit, you need to create it, nurture it, and grow it. There’s no guarantee that Lemmy will be the place to land during the Reddit exodus, but it is a place to land, and a damn fine one at that. Putting my money where my mouth is, if you ever want to talk about calculators head on over to !calculators@midwest.social
Any hint to how to?
If your instance allows it, you should just have an option to create a community on the front page - some instances prohibit community creation to just their admins. I believe beehaw is one of them, to more or less curate/organize the content there as far as I understand (someone from their team would be able to better explain/phrase it than I have most likely).
Currently, I don’t think Lemmy has a way to create communities on remote instances, so if you have a request for a community you’d want to reach out to their team (I imagine https://beehaw.org/c/support is a good place, but don’t quote me on that) to see if it is something they’d be interested in.
@JakeSparkleChicken@midwest.social @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net Thank you, this can also be info for others. I’m afraid this is going to be community fragmentation anarchy. It’s already not easy to find subs without a categorised index … and then, hopefully there will be ways to move users/subs between servers. But let’s see how this matures.
… damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user …… damn how do i make this link and notify more than one user …
I believe you can omit tagging someone if you’re replying directly to them, but otherwise you’ve done it the right way (I don’t know how to get it to “highlight” the mention in the comment, but I can confirm I did get both a reply and mention notification so despite it not being highlighted it did still work)!
Wow thanks for the reply. Yes i knew i can omit it but wanted to mention both explicitly. That was one thing i never knew on Reddit, if users get notified when i “@” mention them or if stuff got cross-posted when people mentioned the r/sub. I feel a bit idiotic now, although i’m technically knowledgeable. Just not scial media adapted.
It’s all good! I feel like I’m constantly learning something new every day (which I’ll gladly take)!
I know on Reddit username mentions was a premium feature at some point, but I feel like I heard at some point it got moved to just being a general feature, cross posts required an explicit button click on a post to perform a cross post (similar to how it works here on Lemmy as well).
If you click on
Communitiesand selectAll, it allows you to search for Communities across all of Lemmy-Land, not just the instance that you’ve signed up on. I think that every instance can have its own separate community with the same name, but in a lot of cases that may even be desirable.As far as moving users/communities between servers, that’s Nomadic Identity. As far as I know, the only Fediverse project that implements it is the Zot protocol that Streams and Hubzilla are built on. ActivityPub does not support and it’s not on the roadmap as far as I know.
Community search: yes i know and used it. It’s just not useful if one doesn’t exactly know what keyword to search for. An index by general topc would be nice to have. I was thinking about making a sorting thread but really, a subforum would not be the right place for it.
Migration of data … well too much OT discussion coming to my mind.
I imagine https://beehaw.org/c/support is a good place, but don’t quote me on that
Seems to be a place at least for general discussion on this topic. Such questions have already been asked there.
I don’t know what the rules are on lemmy.ml, but some instances let anybody create a new community. There’s no guide or doc that I know of, but it’s as easy as making a post is. I just looked for a calculator community and couldn’t find one, so I made it. If lemmy.ml won’t let you make a community, either ask the mods there to approve one, or sign up on an instance that isn’t as locked down. You can even make your own instance and still federate with the rest of the Lemmy-sphere.
I created and mod two subs on reddit, and I’d love to see them make their way over here, but I’ve had a child since creating those subs, and I just don’t think I have the time to do it anymore, sadly. Both subs seem on-board with the blackout on the 12th though, so maybe some of their members will find their way here. Maybe I’ll even point them here with a sticky on the 12th…
Definitely do a sticky! I’d be doing that for sure if I had your mod powers 😊
r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.
There’s !selfhost@lemmy.ml and !selfhosted@lemmy.ml
r/PCMasterRace r/GameDeals r/Fitness r/BuildAPC
Subs that have good guides and community info
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 is pretty well represented so far versus most other topics
+1 for /philosophy
Philosophy, Liturature and Science subs (there are numerous).
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 !afl@lemmy.ml 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 😊
r/collegebasketball for me
Yeah this place needs a r/soccer alternative as well!
Hopefully we get it right and name it r/football this time!
I think an exodus to a new site allows an interesting opportunity to break from the restriction of traditions and create new communities. There’s no reason the 196 clones have to be called ‘196’! (or worse, ‘197’)
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?
The idea is federation. No instance is obligated to scale to thousands of users if they can’t handle it. If somebody else thinks they can, they’re welcome to try.
Thank you for your (brother’s) service 🫡
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! :)
r/squaredcircle r/formuladank
I actually have a list of them so just to jot down a few.
r/CozyPlacesr/corebootr/rabbitsr/VoidBunniesr/RoomPornr/WritingPromptsr/ MirrorsEdgeAestheticsr/ Otterabler/OnlinePreservationr/lagoloaf r/GoldenAgeMinecraft r/FarmsofStardewValleyr/EarthPornEDIT: ~~oh andr/UsabilityPornhttps://old.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/~~That’s about it for one’s I know of at least, that aren’t either hyper specific obscure or else some degree of NSFW, aside from SnakesWithHats but I actually got that started here. https://lemmy.ml/c/snakeswithhats
EDIT: I actually started a handful of these now, since I wanted to see em here so here’s some now.
VoidBunnies GoldenAgeMinecraft UsabilityPorn FarmsofStardewValley Lagoloaf RoomPorn EarthPorn Otterable
EDIT 2: Also a Coreboot page since I didn’t see anyone make that surprisingly.
Writing Prompts has already been created! I also really wanted to see it here. !writingprompts@lemmy.ml
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