Ideally your answer is a sub that you are currently posting to but few others are posting to.
The dragon communities
!dragons@pawb.social
!dragonswithjobs@pawb.social
!imaginarydragons@leminal.space
!wingsoffire@lemmy.worldI’m active on one but not the others, and I have a semblance of a plan.
i used to think dragons were cool before Drag came along
Still are, that dumbstick doesn’t change that
I miss standupcomedy and evilautistm but I’m not running them.
https://lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy
We’re going to be emulating the original subreddit, but I missed my witchy coven and recently became a mod
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:
Oh thanks! I just copied what my client gave me
Yay! So glad to have this one over here!
/r/Cardano: !cardano@infosec.pub
For some reason, very few people interested in cryptocurrency practice what they preach. The people (to me hypocrites) prefer instead to use a closed-source centralized platform to talk about an open-source, decentralized currency. Baffling. The only crypto people that seem to practice what they preach are my monero buds.
/r/ArtisanVideos
It’s a ghost town without my posts.
And so many more that I moderate but refuse to close.
The only community I started that has been successful is EnoughMuskSpam
!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!
Just subbed!
Appreciate it; I hope it’s worth your while!
Feel free to promote it on ! communitypromo@lemmy.ca
Done, thanks!
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.
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…
Love your posts there. Keep it up brethren 🫶🏽
New sub. This one’s great! My group chats are going to mute me.
As god intended.
oh I loved that sub in reddit! cool beans
Oh wow, I did not know I needed this in my life! New sub here.
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.
The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.
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.
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.
The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche
Subbed tonthe Civil War forum, thanks for the tip.
Feel free to join us on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Basically every regional community. Think towns and states. Those were some of my favorite communities to engage with
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
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.
One of my favourite things on Reddit was movie discussions. I’ve joined a bunch of movie communities with !movies@lemm.ee being the most active but I would love if more people were on it!
who doesn’t like movies!
We’re trying our best
c/snackexchange
I’m the only poster but don’t want to spam too much and look like a scammer.
Even though I’m probably never gonna contribute, I hope this takes off.
I miss houseplant content
do we have a gardening subreddit? surely they also have some plants indoors
!chronicillness@lemmy.world or more specifically (for me at least) !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
And when I tried to ask for information on some treatment it even earned me a downvote. Probably by someone sorting by scaled and not wanting that in their feed or so.
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.
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.
Crowdsourcing has been a blessing in my journey to relieve chronic migraine. There’s a lot of misunderstanding and bad info out there, but at least it has given me options. Doctors have all fixated on blood pressure medication and abortives, which don’t work on me in the former, and the latter leaves me incapacitated when they do work.
Going down the rabbit hole of online discussions helped me figure out I have histamine intolerance, which I was able to verify scientifically once I knew how to investigate it.
What is CIDP?
Crowdsourcing medical assistance is entirely valid, as long as you’re also seeking professional help. Medicine just doesn’t have all the answers, and sometimes “this works for me” is the best advice you can get when there’s nowhere else to turn.
I’m reminded of that old joke:
What do you someone who graduated bottom of their class at medical school?
“Doctor.”
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy.
Agreed.
Sucks. Sorry to hear that.
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!dadforaminute@lemmy.world is great for people missing parents. Need a hug? DIY advice? Someone to be proud of you? There’s a whole group of dads poised and ready to help!
Personal finance ones would be nice
Which ones are you in? I like personal finance and am in several on Reddit, but none here.
!personalfinancecanada@lemmy.ca as your on lemmy.ca?
