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What are some communities you've subscribed to, even though there are only a handful of posts, hoping that it will one day be active?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recently ran into the problem where I signed up on a different federation or whatever and had to jump through a few hoops to get subscribed to the community I wanted.

I get that that's part of the allure of Lemmy but it's also a stumbling block. I can't just go to any community and sign up at the click of a button. Hopefully there's a workaround for this soon or I imagine a lot of lazy users like myself will just look elsewehere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The apps I’ve tried thus far on iOS make this process much easier than the web clients. I think with a little refinement, most users could have a β€œreddit-esque” experience without fully knowing how the federation works under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate it when the community I want to join is spread across like five different instances with varying levels of activity and user count. Wish we could just Pick one and make it The One community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I understand the desire for that, but tbh I'd be just as happy with something like Reddit's multi-reddits to round up multiple similar communities in one feed. I appreciate the subtle differences that communities around the same topic can have simply by slight variations in their focuses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too!

But this was your chance to list some of the lesser known ones that you, in particular, are interested in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fair enough. I guess the ones I’m most into right now are:

I also wish there was a Portland Timbers community here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i too wish there was a ptfc group here. i'm still going back to the timbers subreddit for my banter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I usually hang out on the discord.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm in the middle of linking up all the various crafty communities with a central list, because if you're a crafter you're probably interested in more than one of them. So, all of those?

Here's the list as posted in the leathercrafting community (which you should also check out), we've got loads of stuff from crochet to dicemaking. Crafters, assemble!

https://lemmy.world/post/394324

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wish my local city's community had more people, but I'm afraid they'll never move over. Oh well, i created it anyway.

I've also created a few others that will get buried.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What city? I'm suffering the same fate with San Diego.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@BestOf or https://kbin.social/m/Bestof

Disclaimer: I'm the moderator. I would just like a good place in the fediverse where I can see all the best of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I subscribe to a kbin community from a lemmy account?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah wondering the same. I thought that was the whole point of the fediverse thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tagging @[email protected] as well in case either of you haven't got it working yet. Just take the actual URL of the Kbin mag and search for it from your instance, like you would normally search with the ! syntax for a Lemmy community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, if I search for https://kbin.social/m/Bestof I get no results. To do this, I went to "Communities" at the top of the page, then searched for that URL. I got this as a result:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That search finds Bestof.. as in your post but there's not "Subscribe" button so how do I add it to my subscribed communities? Sorry for teh ignorant Q, i'm ignorant

Searching for [email protected] does the same (iirc the latter is the preferred way to get to a federated instance's community, but I'm a noob so waht do i know?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Copy the link into your Lemmy instance's search. It might take a second to show up as it federates but it should show up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wish there was more active participation. I mod one small community with 36 subscribers and only my posts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Remember the old ~90% lurker / ~9% commenter / ~1% poster ratio. Most communities here haven't yet reached a size where you see a variety of active contributors yet.

I moderate two communities that have now reached >200 subscribers and we're only just seeing people other than mods actively posting stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Old photos in real life? That's a good idea for a community. I went to check it out hoping I'd have something to contribute but unfortunately I don't. One day it will be a lot more active though, I believe it. Just the good ol' ratio of lurkers to active users.

I feel your pain at comedy heaven. One day lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm the same. I'm at https://kbin.social/m/Bestof and I'm moderating nothing for now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's how I feel. I've been spearheading [email protected], and posting every single video.

Managed to get 1 comment so far!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've been trying to get [email protected] off the ground but it's not getting much traction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking the other night a health community would be great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How come it’s !health and not just health? That seems confusing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

! Is just a way to refer to communities, and @ to users. If you type ! or @ and some characters, you'll get autofilled results.

So, it is health.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I didn’t understand if it was, like.. health was taken so !health was available.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Virtual Reality could use some love

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish the Super Smash Bros Lemmy was more active. I wanted to message the owner to offer to mod because Sunspider helps with Lemmy.world and has their hands full probably but can't figure out how to do that on Jerboa.

SSB is one of the first video games I ever played and I've been active for over 20 years in this series. The Nintendo Switch does not make it easy to pull my files so it's a little harder to save and post clips unlike BotW or other games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with Jerboa (I'm still kinda waiting on mobile apps to develop more), but you may try messaging them by logging in via browser instead.

From there you should be able to navigate to the community, tap the sidebar button, scroll a little to see their name at the bottom, tap it & see their profile & an option to message them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the information, my guy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All Genshin subs ~~(GenshinGays lol)~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me and my co-mod are trying to get [email protected] going. We get a few posters, but it's mostly just us for now. But we hold out hope! I imagine it will catch on more eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a Bluey fan. Thanks for setting it up so I don't have to go back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My hometown community (San Diego). I feel like a bushy-tailed fool, only one doing any posting on Lemmy. But I'm done with R., so off I go...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Disc golf. There's just seems to be nothing for it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://feddit.uk/c/ukpersonalfinance

It's a fantastic resource on Reddit. Much like how bacon keeps me from going full vegetarian, UK personal finance keeps me on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy.world/c/raccoons !raccoons[email protected]

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