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The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I made https://lemmy.world/c/guitars and you'll NEVER guess what we talk about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hey Art- how's that gig at kruger industral smoothing? Lol. Anyway I just got here from reddit and the first thing I was looking for was the equivalent of /r/guitars. Is your server federated with lemmy.ml? I can't seem to subscribe...

Edit - i figured it out! Someone has to search for your link in their instances search at least once. I guess that was me! Kinda fun being on the first wave of reddit refugees.

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

Great idea, r/guitar never reached it's true potential with a lack of clear direction target, I hope that one will work better

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

/r/guitar gave a great example of everything not to do in an online guitar enthusiast forum, at least from a mod perspective. You won't find that bullshit at /c/guitars as long as i have anything to do with it, we just vibe and talk shop.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I just started https://sh.itjust.works/c/vtubers. I'm part of a small community of VTubers, and hoping to meet more people and make friends through Lemmy as well.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

mander.xyz has a ton of cool science instances!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Self promoting a Futurama community https://lemmy.world/c/futurama

(Hypnotoad compels you to join)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just chipping in to promote my own lemmy instance: I created [email protected] and communities for the other 30 MLB teams to replace the subreddits we left behind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I just subbed to the main baseball sub and the Twins so thanks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I'm focusing my instance on some niche topics that I find interesting, here's what we've got so far.

FFXIV β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv

Bugs β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie

Esports β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/esports

Gundam β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/gundam

Star Trek β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/startrek

Xenoblade β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade

Long Furbies β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/longfurbies

Possums! β†’ https://possumpat.io/c/possums

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your service!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the Star Trek one!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Here's some of the communities on lemmy.pineapplemachine.com. They're pretty small and quiet at the moment, but maybe they'll grow a little over time:

[email protected] - For software development
[email protected] - For game development
[email protected] - For compiler development
[email protected] - For video games
[email protected] - For Deep Rock Galactic
[email protected] - For Fortnight
[email protected] - For twitch.tv
[email protected] - For general tech stuff
[email protected] - For world news

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

thanks for making these relative links, so they can work across instances, but... they don't actually work on a given instance until that community is first accessed there through search.

eg, your dev community worked for me (here on lemmy.ml) because someone else here already accessed it, but your news one was 404 until after I searched for https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/c/news on lemmy.ml to make it learn about it.

despite the amazing work over the last years there is still lots more to be improved :)

(i just accepted an invitation to become an admin here to help the two main devs be able to spend more time developing and less time moderating...)

for now, if you want to promote your instances communities to users on other big instances like lemmy.ml, i recommend searching for each community URL on various instances (login is not required for this) to make it easier for newbies there to click your relative links and subscribe.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hah, that's what...four rival gamedev communities now? At least πŸ˜„

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least πŸ˜„

No need to compete! I'm self-hosting my own instance in any case, so I thought I might as well make communities for things I'm interested in. I've also subbed to every other gamedev community I've come across so far...

It would be really neat if there were a lemmy feature to easily co-promote related communities, maybe even give users an easy way to see them all in one feed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh absolutely, I've got so many duplicates in my sub list and kinda love that it doesn't matter!

Seen some talk around of a potential feature where users can group related communities together for viewing purposes, but I expect it'll be a while away if it ever happens. In the meantime there's nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume), but that would rely on every mod of a similar place being as un-power-mad as yourself and reciproacting πŸ˜…

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I started [email protected] last week; that might interest you and others as well. :)

I've also joined your gamedev community! <3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You got yourself a new sub. Thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Finally a deep rock galactic community?! Let's gooo, rock and stone!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lol, love that the DRG group isn't called DRG but Rock 'n Stone. Very Karl of you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I haven't found a good pro wrestling community, so I figured I'd try and start something. No idea what I'm doing but we'll get there. Link for anyone interested: https://midwest.social/c/wrestling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

[email protected] is a Futurama subreddit that I am shamelessly self-promoting. I hope that's okay.

Edit: I don't know how to link it properly, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Subscribed! For people on the lemmy side, just searching for https://kbin.social/m/thescarydoor should have it come up.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I created a few shitposting communities that I really miss from reddit.

[email protected] - a place dedicated to making fun of rust programming language (actually mainly its competitors)

[email protected] - funny flags

[email protected] - Europe and the EU in a humorous fashion

[email protected] - Elder Scrolls shitposting

[email protected] - femboy memes

[email protected] - funny graphs

[email protected] - stupid anime memes

There isn't anything going on there at the moment, but I hope in time they can prosper and produce some cool content :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've subbed to your trustl community!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

may the gods watch over your battles, friend!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you also know if a community like r/hopeposting exists?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

we're just getting started so you've either been waiting your whole life for this instance, or you're glad it's on someone else's rack.

PopHeads is for, well pop music-heads. and i've no clue how to link it so it works for everyone. that's a regular web link, apparently [email protected] will work better for some.

the instance also just tipped up a meme community and plans to build out artist communities as well. the first is for taylor swift, so yeah, our mod buttons say 'hater' on them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Join us on feddit.de to chat about boardgames (in english)

boargames on feddit.de

https://feddit.de/c/boardgames

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

[email protected] is the long running cat-pic community.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Something I haven't been able to wrap my head around, do I need a username on each instance for federated instances? If not, how does one participate in communities in other instances? I'm with lemmy.ml, but if I want to interact with a post on beehaw, how do I do that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The short answer is no, you dont.

Think of this like email, you sign up to a mail provider (gmail, yahoo, fastmail, etc) or even if you're feeling up to it run you own email server with you own domain. You can then use that account to send emails to anyone regardless of which provider they picked and anyone can send you email too.

Lemmy (and ActivityPub, the underlying protocol) works the same. ActivityPub under the hood even uses the same concept of an inbox and outbox. You pick your provider and you can comment, post, etc. to anywhere regardless of which instance the other users or community is on.

If you see a post on another instance (e.g. Beehaw) you can just comment in the webui or app and it'll just work.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Self promoting https://midwest.social/c/synths (like /r/synthesizers) and the hubby's community https://midwest.social/c/guitars (like /r/guitar) for anyone interested in those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

[email protected] The best German memes!

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