I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.
I will comment more as I think of them.
More UK/Europe based communities
Americans shoehorning (their own) politics and religion in every single comment thread is so unbelievably boring
Feddit.uk has been great since the admin swap.
does that happen a lot here or are you venting about the other platform?
The majority of users are surely from the US, and so questions that don’t specify origin but whose answers may be more properly dictated by knowing their origin end up getting answered by the majority US user-base, even though the original person asking the question isn’t from the US.
It’s fair that people from elsewhere shouldn’t always have to specify they’re from elsewhere because the entire internet does not exist just in the USA, the USA just has an outsized influence on the internet. I can see how that frustration could arise and why European-based communities would be helpful. It’s the same issue on reddit, if you’re not on a country-specific-level-sub, the default answers are from US users.
It’s genuinely an issue, and I say this as an American, mostly because I’m guilty of it myself. We absolutely dominate the online discourse and usually default to assuming questions that don’t specify where they are about must be American. It’s a very Amerocentric view of the world and the internet.
+1 for good UK/European communities.
The majority of users are surely from the US
Hmm citation needed? I’m not so sure a majority is from the US, even if US users is the largest group.
What I find most annoying is stuff like /c/news and /c/politics (on any instance) being actually only about US news or US politics. And then you need /c/world_news to be actual news from around the world. I wish more instances did what Beehaw did and made /c/news into the world news community and then made /c/usnews to be… well, US news.
Well put, but my point was that politics and religion shouldn’t ever be mentioned unless you want to start an argument. It’s just not a thing in civilised countries. You just don’t talk about it because nothing you say will change anyone’s beliefs about either subject in any way whatsoever, and it’s just antagonistic.
Americans will bring politics or religion into meme threads, shitposts, casual conversation, comic strips etc etc
If you’re not on a political sub or a news sub, you’re here for a laugh, and fuck me neither of those subjects is ever humourous
Pls stop 😅
Sorry about that. We’re struggling over here and it’s on our minds a lot.
my point was that politics and religion shouldn’t ever be mentioned unless you want to start an argument
Firstly, I agree that there is a time and a place and a lot of people seem to not know the boundaries.
That being said, bringing up a controversial subject isn’t always just about a fight. It might seem like it is, but sometimes we just want to discuss an issue.
Also, even arguing has its merit. While you’re not going to change the mind of the person you’re arguing with, you might sway the opinions of bystanders.
But yeah, I agree keep it out of shitposts.
I’d create them if it wasn’t so difficult to host my own Lemmy instance
Most smaller instances will let you make a new community.
Getting people to subscribe, that’s your problem.
Pathfinder_Kingmaker. I spent ages talking about builds and strategies on that reddit sub. I still miss guiding new players into the games. The BG3 community is the closest I’ve found but it doesn’t scratch quite the same itch due to 5e’s simplicity.
Pathfinder does have a few active communities but they are all for the tabletop. The one for the game on Lemmy.world is dead as a doornail.
Duck posting? Benzodiazepines?
Wat
Ever venture over to crippling alcoholism? Loved that sub around 8-10 years ago
No? I like beer, but being intoxicated is not pleasurable to me.
benzodiazepines
drug addict echo chamber subreddit
people like you like to pretend that Lemmy is so much better than Reddit, then you just walk around spewing hate about people you don’t know. why are you here? you’d be much more at home on Reddit with that attitude
I just stated my view on a subreddit. Was I incorrect? Don’t take it so personally
you just called me and my friends drug addicts and I’m not supposed to take it personally? I recently started having benzos prescribed for panic attacks, and it’s been a great resource for learning about my medication. then I have to sit here and listen to you shame me for talking to people about my psychiatric meds? Go sit on a wire brush.
I don’t believe for half a second that you don’t understand why it was taken personally, which means not only are you walking around insulting people for no apparent reason, you’re also playing dumb. I don’t fuck with either of those so I’m done talking with you.
A big benefit of the fediverse is that it’s still so small that it’s pretty easy to just block the assholes without a constant sea of new ones coming in to take their place.
Whoever the asshole you’re replying to is, I already have them blocked.
Literally scroll the front page of r/benzodiazepines
!noscrapleftbehind
I certainly don’t leave any scrapple behind.
TIL a new english word
Idk what this is but why would someone spend time on such an animation?!
It’s from a game on the original Xbox called Whacked! One of the first games with Xbox live support
InfoWarriorRides / SchizophreniaRides, for pictures of cars with batshit crazy messages on them.
100YearsAgo could be mirrored here via bot and not miss much.
Other subs were great for their discussion more than than linked content - Civvie11, GunnerkriggCourt, DresdenCodak, QContent. Not so much DumbingOfAge because it devolved into a hatedom sub. I guess most of that should be lumped into comic and game-video communities. I could “be the change” and start posting speedruns willy-nilly.
LinkIsCute is here but pretty dead.
Polandball, holy shit!
JapanLife and JapanFinance. Tons of knowledge for people living in Japan where language, the legal system, etc. all are much easier to navigate with the help of people who have been here. They never really got off the ground in the fediverse and are the only reason I still go to reddit.
oh, I would also really like a Law & Order community.
Yes please
i wish a lemmy community existed like r/wordington with unhinged content. And more communities dedicated to games, which are active like a Terraria community for instance.
Big tiddy goth girls.
♥️
Real issue
Did the lemmynsfw instance die or something?
I really want there to be a community for Dropout as I love their content but I haven’t found a good space to talk with others about them that doesn’t involve some corporation harvesting my data.
Once again here to say I’m surprised Lemmy has no equivalent to KarmaCourt.
Holy shit it’s been so long I had completely forgotten about KarmaCourt.
I think the reason we don’t is that Karma/Votes aren’t really tracked the same way over here?
Wasn’t the main point just to “sue” each other though?
I can only imagine how many of us are the type who’d find ourselves standing before Judge Judy.
Right, but I thought the thing they were suing each other over was like whether they were Karma farming? It’s been so long I’d honestly have to go look it up to be sure. Memory is foggy.
An active box office community. I don’t really watch movies but I enjoy the data and the discussions about why movies are performing that way. @[email protected] tried to singlehandedly keep it afloat for some time, but it didn’t work unfortunately.
I imagine it’s like sports statistics but with a lower barrier of entry, and sometimes you watch a film franchise you enjoyed die in real time.
I miss the non-porn nudes threads, Normalnudes and NakedProgress, the ones with an “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything” policy where people of all body types could show their shape and/or their fitness progress.
/c/DSP. Digital signal processing, i.e. how to transform, filter, and live with digital signals (e.g. audio files, image files, video files, sensor measurements, etc.). It involves a lot of math, so unless we get R*ddit-like numbers I don’t really know how such a community could keep moving.
