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What is a sub/community that you wish existed (actively) on Lemmy?

Maybe there are others like you and we can actually get it running, or maybe to already exists but you just don't know!

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[–] klemptor@startrek.website 37 points 1 week ago (7 children)

More women-oriented communities would be great. Skincare, makeup, women's fitness, female health, nail polish, aging. I'd love that.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I started a women one that covered all of that, would you help me promote it?

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Great it's !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al just in the process of building it

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 6 days ago

Np post away! If nothing else I'll chat with you haha

[–] britkatbar@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yes! Or fiber/needle arts! Im struggling to quit reddit because theres like 6 crochet posts over here T_T

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hi mate! We'd love to see your crochet stuff at !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al we're for all things women related

[–] britkatbar@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Oh nice! Headed there now, much appreciated <3

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[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Agree! I'd love to see more discussion around female health, not necessarily constructive but just bants about the 'gross' stuff, memes and complaints and stuff. The issue is that I'm a comment contributor more than a poster, as much as I try. So as much as I'd like to Be The Change, it really has to come from a lot of us posting and interacting.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

Today CheeseToastie created a new community for women's interests. I've agreed to share it around so if you're interested, come join us at !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al

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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It exists but 100% not in the same form

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We don't have enough Linux discussion

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Did you forget the /s?

[–] formulaBonk@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Actually active formuladank community

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

All of the individual games I play and not just the general "gaming" subs. Plenty of video game enthusiasts on Lemmy; not enough to geek out over specific games. Or at least... Not the ones I play.

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[–] Kertyna@feddit.nl 16 points 1 week ago

SpeedofLobster! A good lobster always cracked me up.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

/r/liberalgunowners was a favorite. Everyone was so nice and accepting. We'd answer the same noob questions all day, no problem. None of "MuH 2A!" crap, nobody bloodthirsty. Anyway, I could go on, but it was nice while it lasted.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That seems like a really important community to have here

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[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Writing Promts was cool

and the camouflage community (I may be very biased lol)

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Writing Prompts was cool

Well, you're in luck!

!writingprompts@literature.cafe

They just started reopening the community, so hopefully more people will participate.

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[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

A community for the car I own, no matter what it is. (With thousands of active members, of course.)

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[–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A general simracing community that's not hosted on .ml

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[–] Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want lostmedia and unsolvermysteries communities to exist and be more active.

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[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

There's !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world, but it's been dead for a while. I kinda miss reading those stories about assholes getting what they asked for.

Another that was fun reading occasionally was scambait, where people would fuck with scammers to waste as much of their time as possible. I don't know if there's anything like that on Lemmy.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't mind some of the Random Acts to come over and be more active. Even though I never used it, I always thought the idea of the Random Acts of Pizza was a grand idea for those who are in need.

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reddit had a few really good and active lifting communities. There were interesting program reviews, sometimes everyone would run super squats together and report on the various effects of drinking a gallon of whole milk per day on the digestive tract. And I could help others join in and start lifting themselves into their best selves, since not many people in my real life circle are interested

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] ptc075@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Model railroading. Even on Reddit those subs weren't super active, but they at least existed.

Magic the Gathering. There's actually 3 here already, but somehow none of them really scratch the itch to just talk about deckbuilding. And again, the 3 that are here are fairly quiet. Just doesn't seem to be the critical mass needed.

DankChristianMemes. Was just fantastic. Perhaps the best 'neutral' ground I ever saw for Christians & Atheists to laugh at themselves & each other.

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[–] stelelor@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Communities for identifying random stuff! Rocks, plants, bugs, fossils, that weird thingy in your grandma's kitchen... I love lurking on them because I learn to notice more in my day-to-day life. The downside is that they need more active moderation to weed out wrong or unhelpful comments.

And on a related note, communities for admiring natural stuff, à la mineralporn.

[–] Typewar@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The small niche communities are the ones I'll probably never see again, like /r/reverseanimalrescue /r/TheNightFeeling /r/darknetplan

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[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmings.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

R/raisedbynarcissists for sure.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 0 points 4 days ago

Posts like that are welcome at !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al we're a women's only community for all things women. I'm making it a supportive and inclusive community

[–] sihil@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Psychonaut, DPH, heavymind, weirddalle, mspaint. All were once hidden gems of Reddit

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[–] suzie_t@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Parent/Trying for pregnancy/pregnancy.

I found the pregnancy conversations on Reddit (while I was on Reddit is fun) to be much less toxic than on those discussion forums on pregnancy apps.

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[–] ladel@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I grew and modded the K League (Korean football) sub previously, and I've wondered about starting one Lemmy. I would like one to be here so that I can can keep up with what's happening easily, but I also kinda like not having a feeling of responsibility to post stuff regularly.

If I did start one, does anyone know if there's any technical problems with creating and modding a comm on an instance different from your home instance?

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