What you wish had an active community here on the lemmyverse?

lorty@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 125 points –

Your favorite movie, series, or anything else really that you can't find a community here (or maybe it just doesn't exist)

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I'll just be honest, from my perspective on lemmy everything outside of porn, linux and shitposts is lacking. Interaction outside the top of hot is a wasteland of non-existence, questions go undiscovered, comments are never read. We could all be more generous with upvotes to improve visibility.

For me sfw art communities, sports, and life protips would all be nice to see grow. I miss the old photoshopbattles too, but I think that's just fallen out of style in general.

It's one of the disadvantages of not having algorithms to push content up or down.

No, it's a question of volume. Before reddit turned to shit, it used to work the same way, but niche communities could still thrive because there were enough people. Lemmy will be able to hold more communities as more people join

Research paper reading groups.

Like in general or regarding specific topics?

Initially in general, but if there was enough interest breaking into specific topics would be nice to

What's your domain?

Math, electronics, algorithms, and chemistry are interesting to me

As a bonus behavioral economics

Algorithms sound interesting to me from a research paper perspective. Im a little intimated by the others.

AskHistory or something similar.

A history subreddit would be nice to see. It genuinely brings joy to my face to learn some interesting facts about the middle-ages. And overwhelming amount of Lemmy users need reminding of what happened in Cambodia in the late 70s.

I'm not seeing enough Linux content, are there any Linux communities on Lemmy?

Basically all the media.

There is (or at least was) a special kind of joy in discovering a new piece of media (movie, TV, book, video game, comic, etc), getting to the end, and hopping over to the relevant subreddit to sort by "top of all time." Bonus points if you loved the series and would get to essentially relive it all over again through the sub, but even media that you hated or were neutral about could be fun subs to peruse; maybe you would get to revel in seeing something you hated turned into a meme highlighting how stupid it was, or get to feel justified in your negative assessment upon reading an epic rant from another user; maybe instead you'd find hidden details or explanations pointed out by other users that made you reassess the work ("huh, I though that was a stupid plothole but it actually was perfectly explained by that one scene that apparently went over my head"). The ATLA subs especially were treasure troves of tiny details and "holy shit I just noticed on my fifth rewatch" posts that really elevated my opinion (and thereby enjoyment) of a series I was initially kind of "meh" on.

When I think about what it would take to feel like Lemmy had sufficiently replaced Reddit for me, the number one practical answer is for comprehensive news (political, world, cultural, meme, etc... Reddit really did at one point feel like "the front page of the Internet" if there ever was one), and the second is to have the critical mass to be able to ask a question and get a good recommendation for any specific product or service, via regional subs, hobby subs, etc (although thanks to LLMs and corporate astroturfing that may simply be a bygone part of the Internet). But the "fun" answer is to have the critical mass for a wide range of specific fandoms.

Given the absence of specific communities (or active ones so far), if people would like they could start these conversations over in !general@lemmy.world.

I recognize it's not the same, particularly for getting to those deep dive points you mention with ATLA, but gotta start somewhere, right?

Also I can easily give this go-ahead being one of the mods there. Up to now I've hesitated popping into threads like this and pointing people there because I'm not a fan of consolidation, but it's become apparent some simple meeting area may help to get more niche communities spun off and going.

A lab work group, like that one on Reddit. I cannot remember the name and I sure as hell will not go to that damned site, but it was basically full of graduate students and technicians that shared stories from their labs.

The labrats subreddit was kinda fun. I’m a chemist, but the chemistry subreddit was overwhelmed by people asking for homework advice, showing off bad caffeine tattoos, and getting upset when they couldn’t talk about drugs or explosives.

I miss weird niche creative silly roleplay reddits like

r/vxjunkies

r/enlightenedbirdmen / r/madmudmen

r/earth999

r/nsfwworldbuilding - mostly bees with boobs

These random communities is something I wish picks up when the lemmyverse grows.

r/WindTunnelZebraBDSM

TL;DR shitpost sub created alongside r/BirthofaSub

Oh, and r/BlackMagicFuckery and r/BlackSmithFuckery

I miss the nonsexual nudes groups from Reddit, Normalnudes and NakedProgress.

Also wish the curly hair group here was active.

It's ok though, trading off for the smaller community here, it's still better.

I've got one! Obscure textile crafts.

There are knitting/crochet communities of course, but all the super niche ones like ply-split braiding or smocking are too rare to warrant a whole community to themselves. On reddit there was a defunct sub called bistitchual, both for all obscure fibercrafts and for combinations of unrelated fibercrafts in one work. I wish we had it here.

More outdoors stuff. They exist, but not very active. Mountaineering, climbing, camping, overlanding, etc. Love people sharing their adventures and all the gear and tips & tricks discussions.

Yeah, I searched for hiking and backpacking to replace my equivalent subreddits and just crickets everywhere.

While it's a good idea, things are a little too decentralized right now.

There are lots of communities that are just stealing users from each other.

I've no desire to be joined to 17 'different' communities with maybe a few dozen members each and content that is mostly crossposted between those same communities.

Aquariums. I don't have one of my own but love to see pictures of other people's.

My town. It has an active subreddit but last I checked there were only 2 in the Lemmy community.

I find it funny how reddit manages to have active communities for towns, even ones in non-english speaking countries.

Old School Runescape.

Also, I'm really confused as to why chess doesn't have an active community on Lemmy. Online chess has seen a big boom in recent years, and the demographics of chess players and Lemmy users should have a lot of overlap (i.e. the nerdy IT people), but for some reason the chess community here is more or less dead. Only anarchychess is active, which is great, but I'd love to have an active replacement for r/chess.

It's pretty weird the meme community got going but the more serious one didn't.

I mean it makes some sense as memes take less effort to post (they can also just be copied from r/anarchychess or similar places) and lead to some quick upvotes. I'm still confused about chess@lemmy.ml having so little activity though.

Coffee. There are a couple of Lemmy communities but none of them are that active. Reddit had r/coffee and r/espresso that were both fairly active

!coffee@lemmy.world has 8k subscribers...just that there's a lot of lurking. Could go and post, probably enough people there to have conversation. When people do post, they get comments.

!espresso@infosec.pub isn't as big, but same thing -- when people post, it looks like they do get comments.

Terrariums. I love miniature things, including tiny ecosystems. There’s a few communities on Lemmy, but they’re mostly inactive, and have a tiny amount of subscribers.

Oh we need a Jarrarium community too. As well as one to talk about isopods and springtails.

::: spoiler terminology explanations

  • nonexistent means there is no community for it
  • dead means there is a community with no (or very rarely) new posts
  • gone means the lemmy instance for the community has been shut down :::

For me, it's any community of Tradespeople. I can find relevant manufacturer and adjacent code regulations for modern equipment or building techniques anywhere online. The problem comes from obscure-ancient technology that was discontinued 60+ years ago, the only references to those are on Reddit and very specific forums.

I recently ran into an electrical panel that was built in the 60's and was promptly made illegal (split bus residential panel, no singular main disconnect switch). Even being trained and educated as an Electrical Engineer, it only gave me the ability to understand what the panel was doing, not the history and use cases of the past (since their use in residential applications is obsolete). I was able to find discussions between inspectors and electricians, how things played out with local authorities, and the on going debate of their practicality by actual professors discussing regulations and safety. I will miss these resources if they become unavailable at a future date (the whole enshitification process).

That being said, places with higher than average traffic (like reddit now) tend to give a lot of crappy answers. Lot's of diy'ers thinking their way is best (whether it's code compliant or not), and others who don't care about discussion and only want to say you're doing it wrong because it's not how they would do it (and nets them the highest profit margin on a job). There's lots of owners out there that are probably afraid to ask a question now adays because of the responses (same linux community effect), even though the information around it could be important.

Daria, Entwives, and Tamagotchi come to mind. And maybe games like Caves of Qud or Project Zomboid.

Still follow those and a few other subreddits via RSS. Wish more communities would’ve switched to Lemmy. :(

Reddit had quite a few, pretty popular Buddhist subs. There isn't even ONE buddhist sub here with more than 3 active ppl. And those are usually the same person posting. I still use reddit from time to time in my phone browser just to check them out, but maybe one day we'll have more on lemmy.

Rocket League, and lots of other games, seem to have stayed on Reddit.

Cyberpunk RED TTRPG community.

Shadowrun TTRPG community.

Polandball.

A community for my home town.

A Canadian politics and current affairs community.

A community for some of the podcasts I listen to would be nice.

We have a few of those here, but they aren't too active and they have a pretty narrow Overton window (ie, I tend to agree with most posts and comments).

I tried posting that kind of stuff. It was thankless. Nobody else started posting. I gave up.

Would love it if there is actually an active Tea community on Lemmy. The ones on Lemmy are pretty much dead. The Reddit one is super active.

Also, Lemmy doesn't have active communities for individual games like Reddit does. They are useful to obtain information, get help, talk about builds, etc

I'd love to see more healthy food, fitness, weight loss and healthy lifestyle-related communities! Also, I don't think there's a community for 'petite fitness'? Would love to see that as well.

Nonsexual/therapeutic manual therapy/massage/bodywork page with research, techniques, theory, etc. anytime I try to find one, I only get porn ones.

Oh I guess "an active community for fanfiction of this specific TV show or videogame I like to enjoy" would be far too niche, right?

Fine, then I'll say immersive teaching (using dioramas, doing experiments on the field, etc... for teaching classes), and alone / 2-people living lifehacks (in particular in this economy).

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Religion. I love talking to people about what they believe and why, and other philosophical discussions, but the two communities I created for those types of discussions have been dead since the Reddit exodus.

Seeing as this thread is still active, instead of continuing to reply to people throughout, gonna go ahead and put this out here.

If you're not finding an active community for something (safe for work, that is) or any community whatsoever for your interest, you're welcome to post about the topics that interest you in !general@lemmy.world till you find enough likeminded people to get a separate community going. This was always allowed tbh, but I've tried to make it more explicit and clear that it's cool.

I miss r/livesound. It was a fantastic resource and a very active community.

I would really like a community for Volkswagen cars with q&a on mechanical problems, tips etc so I can stop going to reddit

Digital signal processing

I.....think I may be interested in learning about that?

DSP (digital signal processing) is the field of applied mathematics and engineering dedicated to transforming and manipulating digital signals.

Examples of real digital signals include audio files, image files, video files, and digitized recordings of various physical quantities by computers like the configuration of a robot as it moves in time, measurements of the processes in a factory, the trajectory of a spacecraft — almost anything that can be periodically sampled and take on a finite set of values [1] can be seen as a digital signal.

DSP includes using tools like the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), the Z-transform, wavelet analysis, probability, statistics, and linear algebra to do things such as filter a signal (example: audio equalizer), predict future values (example: weather forecasting), data compression (example: JPEGs), system identification (example: fit a model of the earth to predict seismic activity), control (example: make a DC motor to respond to position commands), and stabilization (example: keep plane from "wanting" to smash into the ground). Particularly, it requires a careful consideration of the effect of sampling a signal (example: if done carelessly, you can make the sampled system unstable [read: explode]), as well as an interpolation process of some kind if you plan on using that signal outside your computer (example: you want to hear an audio signal stored on your computer).

I got into DSP because I was an audio engineer and musician [2], and I wanted to design my own audio plugins. IMO I think almost everyone would benefit from some knowledge of DSP, but the math is really intense. Personally, I found out late in life that I have a nearly infinite appetite for math, so it's a good fit for me.

Here's a playlist about DSP if you're interested.

[1] Actually, a lot of basic DSP books don't restrict the signal to be in a finite set because it makes the math easier if the signal could be any real number. However, certain structures that would be exactly equivalent in theory are not equivalent on a real computer because ordinary computer arithmetic is approximate.

[2] I still play music, but not as much as before engineering school.

My niche interests.

  • Nim-lang (this has some activity here, though I often have federation issues)
  • Raylib
  • low-poly+untextured polygonal art and vertex colors (both 2D and 3D)

I don't really consider myself an artist or a programmer (I haven't done much), maybe there's a fediverse instance that could work for me but it's probably too niche even just with those communities.

I can't see your reply on my instance, @tal (currently 1 day ago, still not federated) so not sure if you will see this (or if you do, if I'll see your 2nd reply...). EDIT: I forgot the first @ when I first posted, so I don't know if it actually worked as a mention

One was kicked off by someone generating polygonal-style art

It's visually striking (if you don't look too closely), the 1st bonus image is best but I'd still go with a more minimal style. That and aside from hallucination, I would prefer live-rendered polygons. Infinite scalability is the point.

Here's something I made a while ago, animated eye (note: on my end, Imgur links don't work unless viewed in private mode for whatever reason) though a full game with that style is not currently viable for me for multiple reasons (the feature is 4.X only and still an unmerged PR that may not perform well enough for common use, no Nim-lang bindings yet in 4.X).

Carrier Command 2?

I was confused at first, that style of 3D polygonal isn't really uncommon. I don't really buy things (esp not $30 level) and I need a hobby so that's a part of it too*. For 3D art I've done, one of my threads is federated to your instance. Here's the stuff that didn't (these have no textures, only vertex colors):

badgerbadgerbadgerSPACESHIP

banana

office plant

Note the 1st and last show a white background in a new tab but the background is transparent (and show as such on Kbin).

*= I mean I have seen some games that have a nice aesthetic, even better if they're more "real" with it (though that is what's hard to find)

You might give the programming.dev instance a try for the first couple subjects, as they have an open !programming@programming.dev community that may work for them.

The problem is that they overlap, usually all 3 interlocked. The threads/microblogs I've tried barely get responses (again, federation may be an issue), let alone even answers for even something like Blender. I can use Nim w/o art but I don't have the ideas for it usually (or if I do other issues happen, including just lacking the desire to write for something like a game book).

I've mostly waited for something to improve, but a while ago I started my own simple polygon loader/format and I worked a bit more on that today. I think I made one of my own questions irrelevant (assuming my condition to detect strip vs. fan is correct) and added a couple of other improvements. I don't think it's at a point I'd share it, but I probably could (should) try to make a simple game with it soon.

Though I'd rather have 3D in Raylib (vertex colors not working with Nim bindings, Naylib) or more advanced 2D in Godot 4 (no Nim-lang bindings, and said feature is an unmerged PR that may not be performant enough for full game art).

Guitar practice, theory, etc.

There's a community for it but it's practically dead

A Tolkien based active community would be great. Reddit had/has a few that were fairly active. There are communities here but really not active at all.

Also wish the NBA community was more active - quite frankly surprised it's not.

TV, movie and book discussion communities aren't very active around here.

Probably not very popular, I miss the culture of r/morbidquestions that was the place to go for most weird topics without much judgment.

Pro Revenge. It's the only reason I watch those TTS Reddit YouTubers

On reddit, there's a subreddit called r/lrcast, which is the dedicated subreddit for the Limited Resources podcast. The primary purpose of the subreddit, however, is not to discuss the podcast, but to discuss the "limited" format of Magic: the Gathering, which constitutes draft and sealed. It's a very difficult, very expensive format of Magic to play and is a niche subsection of an already fairly niche hobby.