missing lemmy servers
| theme | examples of subreddit | domain ideas | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| outdoor | r/outdoors r/ultralight | .camp | |
| productivity | beware the cringe | ||
| travel | r/travel r/solotravel | .travel | |
| all about pets, dogs bunnies cats etc | any pet sub lol especially r/whatswrongwithyourdog | .pet | could be heavy on images, except for the places where you ask for help about care |
| what’s this | r/whatsthissnake/ r/whatisthisfish r/whatsthisrock r/whatsthisbird r/whatsthisplant/ r/whatisthisthing r/whatsthisbug whatsthatbug.com | very heavy on images (tbf tho webp are veeeery little) | |
| patient consumers | r/onebag r/patientgamers r/patientconsumers | .report .review .reviews | |
| european tech workers? | r/cscareerquestioneu | ||
| movies, animated movies, series, animated series | r/gameofthrones r/severance r/bojackhorseman | ||
| anime, manga, manwha, webtoon | r/onepunchman r/onepiece r/towerofgod | .moe | discussion focussed otherwise beware the loli shota fanarts |
| gaming | r/patientgamers r/macgaming r/linuxgaming r/steamdeck | .gg (country) .games | |
| instance for every city? mabe for every region? | could also work as a group or bulletin board shared between mastodon isntances | ||
| European Union hub | r/europe r/2westerneurope4you r/yurop r/europeanfederalists r/askeuropeans r/askeu | .eu | europe.pub is not specific enough and in fact it’s full of useless posts and subs (or btw every european server could host one of these and then have a shared simple landing page to explain which is where) |
| medical advices | would need very hard and specialized moderation |
do you really need whole server for specific communities?
No but forums work (or don’t if not shared enough) because they have a purpose
With too many generalistic instances you get:
- login paralysis not knowing where to sign up
- bad “””marketing””” because it’s harder to differentiate
- kinda flat culture? I mean every generalistic instance right now it’s mostly techies…
- centralization
- lack of curation because no sense of ownership and belonging
youre absolutely right in that there needs to be pressure for a community to exist successfully. users would want to separate the signal of a specific topic from more general forums.
- Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse.
- what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse.
- i know its tech heavy, but so was reddit at instantiation. There are several servers slowly attracting non technical peeps
- centralization is a problem, and I love the idea of spreading the content out, but shits expensive. funding is an ongoing issue across the fediverse.
- most of the modding (curation) failures ive seen come from the creation of a community without the requisite pressure. there just arent enough humans wanting that content or for it to be curated. someone jumped the gun on community creation.
Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse
Other similar servers yes, more themed ones i don’t think so…
what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse
Ye that’s a problem. Marketing as in market of mental space not as in ‘‘buy this one’’
someone jumped the gun on community creation
Yep, exactly why i feel hesitant partecipating in some subs :o
You are right that problably there is not enough interest, but not that someone shouldn’t try anyway u.u
i think we need to focus on ‘re-homing’ subreddits across the verse, but its incredibly group-specific. its difficult to communicate to reddit subs and convince users to move largely because of the banhammer reddit has brought down.
A Lemmy instance for every single city or region would be cumbersome. Just make these communities on your preferred instance.
I love the idea of an instance for a whole metro area, then each neighborhood could have it’s own community.
Ooo, run by the city/governing body itself? That’d be an interesting way to connect the population.
Not sure those are needed with the current population
Kinda agree but I’m not so sure about the egg or the chicken first
Belonging is very important and there is clearly a dominant techie culture in generalistic instances right now
Of course we can create another large set of sublemmies for new people to think that they may post there, but then it becomes apparent, why Ernest from /kbin has named them Magazines, and not Communities…
I will spare you guessing: with so much “community” names and few people using them “comms” become just categories to post and follow. It may work for a social news website (as it was a primary format of Digg and then Reddit), but this will not replace Reddit as place for discussions.
yep, we have tons of news posting but few discussion i agree
outdoor, travel
Maybe let’s introduce them to Wanderer first?
Productivity
I doubt they would remain here. The Threadiverse is biased towards Open Source and ethical solutions and for any normie not interested in it at all this will bore them quickly…
all about pets, dogs bunnies cats etc
A traditional forum is better for that purpose. One would better build it on NodeBB ;)
european tech workers?
Why would they use specifically the Threadiverse, if they could network better on (larger) Mastodon?
movies, animated movies, series, animated series
There was lemmy.film, but it went belly up. Many of communities from there moved to lemm.ee and then to PieFed.social.
And there is https://adultswim.fan/ .
anime, manga, manwha, webtoon
We literally have got https://ani.social/ .
gaming
https://lemmy.zip/ is skewed towards tech, PCs and gaming
instance for every city? mabe for every region?
It worked for much of Europe, for Canada, Chile, Brazil and Oceania. Regional instances were attempted for US and apart from https://midwest.social/ and https://yall.theatl.social/ (related to Mastodon instance) they failed.
European Union hub
Main problem of Europe Pub is that it isn’t a PieFed instance. Topics would easily direct interested users into their national subs, which already exist on national instances. Nowadays it is a duplication of effort, which either fragments or needlessly centralises the European Threadiverse, depending on its success.
medical advice
IMHO Quora would be a better place for this than Reddit (shall it not enshittify)
AniSocial got the same issues as EuropePub: ton of noise, 0 purposes and discussion.
Even just having the thread to discuss latest one piece chapter would be enough
I made a telegram group to have similar results but it’s still a bit annoying that no one in the open social world wants to fight the trend of hiding into chat groups e-e
AniSocial got the same issues as EuropePub: ton of noise, 0 purposes and discussion.
Creating another instance wouldn’t solve that issue
Not having admins spamming would already solve half of that issue lol
I just had a look at https://ani.social/ front page
Didn’t notice any admin spam
Communities generally spawn on whatever general purpose instance, and I’m fine with it because the only other option is usually nothing at all. Maintaining an instance takes hard work and money.
Sometimes there is enough will to spawn a specific instance. For example, rimmers have their own mbin instance. That’s the exception, though.
The only encouraging thing I can say here is Be the change you wish to see. If you want an instance to exist, run it yourself!
slrpnk is a themed instance 😃 (also lemmini, even tho we may close it soon and then make a very local one)
I made the list for “hey look there are opportunities if you want the threadiverse to shine”
No pressure
Oh, why close lemmini?
To use bonfire, to be even more local (me and the other admin actually live in the same province) and because apparently my social circles are too attached to telegram to post in the open web questions that they can make in our shared groups
Oh and because the main community that should have moved changed idea, so no more being the focal point for political organization in the Italian landscape
Also there is a bug in my ear that keeps repeating that we should just embrace this dark forest internet moment and hide in chat groups like everyone else
