I suspect most people aren’t subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that’s you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.

👏Let’s 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.

  • ɯsnN@piefed.zipEnglish
    554·
    29 days ago

    Not one community specifically, but I really wish that communities about sports - specifically American football - were more active. I really miss that from the other place.

      • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        28 days ago

        Keep it up. I don’t much care about off-season news or anything, but I’ll probably join the discussion when it comes to highlights and game threads. These upcoming seasons for each sport will play a big part in how active the community will be going forward I think. Unfortunately a bunch of traffic was dominated by the presidential election last year so other niche topics should gain more traction this year.

    • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
      16·
      29 days ago

      The NBA community (!nba@lemmy.world) is small but decently active. We had live game threads for the playoffs but it was like 5 people commenting lol. It was still fun though, and hopefully it grows more.

      • phonics@lemmy.worldOP
        6·
        28 days ago

        That’s how we get it started. 5 people active on live game thread leads people to see ‘oh, when it’s live there is a group hanging out here’ next time you’ll have 7 then 12 then 30. Keep it up!

          • theherk@lemmy.world
            31·
            27 days ago

            How does liking gridiron football equate to believing the US is exemplary or better than other nations? Or maybe you think the definition of American exceptionalism is, “Likes something American”. Calling people dumb because you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about isn’t a good look.

            • reactionality@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              11·
              26 days ago

              Saying you want sports communities then hyper-focusing on American sports is exceptionalism.

              There is a small percentage of the Lemmy population that is American, the great majority is European.

              No one here cares for American football or the NFL. So why create a community? Because they think we care. Simple as. It’s believing that Americans are at the centre of the universe once again 🙄.

              • theherk@lemmy.world
                21·
                26 days ago

                I assume you aren’t engaging in good faith dialog here, given the immediate reach for disparaging remarks, but on the off chance you are, let me ask you this. If you asked somebody what their favorite whisky was, and they replied “Laphroaig”, would that be a sign of Scottish nationalism or exceptionalism? Or if you asked their favorite cheese, and they gave “Gouda”, a sign of Dutch exceptionalism?

                Just because one’s answer to “What community would you like to see more active…” is something that is from the US, this is not American Exceptionalism. The question wasn’t, “What community do you think every Lemmy user should be required to participate in?” Nor was is, “What community is the best and most important on Lemmy?”

                Clearly, at least one person here cares about it. Clearly that person isn’t you. Everything you have written here is incorrect, and if you had any shame, you’d be embarrassed to have said it in public.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    331·
    29 days ago

    !lightnovels@ani.social

    I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X. And light novels are familiar and approachable. Often, people have already seen the anime or seen the manga.

    For that matter, even !manga@ani.social could use more activity, and manga is even more approachable than light novels.

    I recently started reading a lot of the LNs that are on “catch up” at a website called j-novel club, and it’s gotten me to enjoy reading novels more.

    Also, the Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel is one of my favorite things I’ve ever read. It’s a pretty long one at 33 volumes, though.

      • NineSwords@ani.social
        2·
        28 days ago

        No idea why

        Because they are by definition different things. Close in style, sure, but so are YA novels.

        Coming as a reddit refugee I just replicated their definition when creating the community. And I still feel the same way since it’s not a general “novel” community. If there’s a popular demand I’ll loose the restrictions.

        • Landless2029@lemmy.world
          2·
          28 days ago

          Thanks for the response.

          Considering that Lemmy is still growing I’d hope there would be a place to discuss all light novels in one place.

          About a year ago maybe I made a post and it was taken down due to not being a japanese web novel.

          Regardless of style “web novel” and “light novel” aren’t specific to a source country like manga and manwha are. So as a community restricting !lightnovels@ani.social to just japanese ones didn’t make sense. You could’ve done jnovels instead.

          You’re doing it based off of writing style. You can make that call as a moderator but I just let it go and don’t discuss my reading with anyone still after leaving reddit.

          One day maybe enough people break the rule in a month to open it up.

          • NineSwords@ani.social
            1·
            28 days ago

            Regardless of style “web novel” and “light novel” aren’t specific to a source country like manga and manwha are.

            Both Wikipedia and Wiktionary define them as Japanese. The same goes for the original Reddit community or the database the bot (Myne) gets her info from. I did not take down your comment (it’s still up) but pointed out that it’s the wrong community for that reason. I didn’t do it on a whim.

            I’m not categorically against Korean (or Chinese) novels, but they’re by every definition I know simply not “light novels”. I believe that a general book community would be a better place to discuss other translated works. For reference, the place on Reddit to post Korean Webnovels would be r/noveltranslations instead of r/lightnovels.

            • Landless2029@lemmy.world
              2·
              28 days ago

              Thank you for the clarification. I’ve always just searched TITLE light novel and it just comes right up when looking for the source of a graphic novel.
              If I had the bandwidth I would start up novel translations myself, but alas my life is too busy to moderate and maintain it.
              Thank you for your own efforts as a moderator and taking the time to clarify.

              Edit:
              I’m not good at using Lemmy search, but I figured out how to find my post here: Link
              I found a discord server that was dedicated to the series I was talking about, but left it since I don’t like my discord cluttered.
              I read like 20 different stories across Korean and Japanese authors. The bulk keeps me distracted enough to not have spare time to chat. Although I miss having people to converse with.

    • NineSwords@ani.social
      2·
      28 days ago

      I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X.

      As Myne in the sidebar states: “Y’all better start reading more books!” :)

      • logicbomb@lemmy.world
        2·
        28 days ago

        And she is noticeably not snobby about books. Myne would love to read light novels.

        One problem that got me away from novels for a while was that I’d get ambitious and try to read something that was recommended but really wasn’t for me.

        • NineSwords@ani.social
          2·
          28 days ago

          One problem that got me away from novels for a while was that I’d get ambitious and try to read something that was recommended but really wasn’t for me.

          I would recommend to go with series that you liked the anime of and want to know how the story continues. It’s not a 100% surefire way to find something you like, but at least you remove other people’s taste from the equation.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    29 days ago

    Short answer: All of them.

    My Community Wish List:

    Creative Communities

    !creativecasserole@lemmy.world - All things creative to share

    !collaborativewriting@lemmy.ca - Team up with someone or a group of people and write something together.

    !writing_lounge@literature.cafe - A casual space for writers to talk, post, or discuss anything.

    Educational/Informative Communities

    !coolguides@lemmy.ca

    !internetisbeautiful@piefed.social

    !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe

    !visualization@lemmy.world

    Positive News Communities

    !worldinprogress@lemmy.world

    !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

    Humor/Funny Communities

    !contagiouslaughter@sh.itjust.works

    !standupcomedy@lemmy.world - Watch Comedy

    !standupshots@lemmy.world - Read Comedy

    !shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

    !the_pack@lemmy.world

    !atbge@lemmy.world - a.k.a. Awful Taste But Great Execution

    !fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world

    !cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

    edit: grammar

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    29 days ago

    Liberal gun owners. (Don’t know how to link properly.)

    https://old.lemmy.world/c/liberalgunowners

    Such a great reddit community, or used to be. No toxic right-wing shit, just people showing off their builds and buys, asking questions, getting solid advice with no bullshit, talking laws and legal repercussions, linking timely news, loads of trans people posting. No judging! A new person could come in with the same damned question we’d covered 500 times. No problem! We’d all jump in and help.

    Fuck I miss that place. It’s dead here. Also, I think there are a few people that go in there solely to downvote. Don’t know how to check logs, not interested enough to try, but it looks like assholes are trying to spoil it.

    And FFS, NOW is the time left-minded Americans should be getting armed! Blacks, LGBTs and women have been the largest gun buying demographic for several years. They need help and they need a judgement free space to get it.

  • Magpie@mander.xyzEnglish
    15·
    29 days ago

    Kind of wish the mass effect community was more active. NGL I kind of ended up hating the subreddit after awhile so no idea what to expect from folks on Lemmy but seems like it’d be better based on other communities I’ve joined.

    !masseffect@lemmy.world

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
    14·
    29 days ago

    I’d like to see a community for cool stuff happening in NYC.

    I’d like to see more stuff for organizing protests and resistance, also for the NYC area.

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      29 days ago

      I’m mildly proud of the fact that the Mini Apple has a more active community than the Big Apple, lol.

      !MSP@midwest.social, and I’m like half of that activity and it’s pretty dead. Make it, post, and maybe you’ll have more luck, but local communities are tough given the small userbase.

      (We also have a Democratic Socialist running for mayor, good luck to both Mamdani and Fateh!)

      • hddsx@lemmy.ca
        2·
        27 days ago

        I think a lot of people got really mad at some admin or moderator at midwest.social and hence a lot of people moved off it. Can’t recall why though

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    29 days ago

    When I first stumbled into Lemmy I kinda gravitated to the medical communities, but from day one they’ve all been pretty dead. Just added a couple more subs now prompted by this thread to see if there was an active one. Here’s what I’ve got in my collection:

    !Surgical@lemm.ee

    !medicine@lemm.ee

    !medicine@lemmy.world

    !medicine@mander.xyz

    !medical_professionals@midwest.social

    !medicine@lemmy.ml

    !health@lemmy.world

    !healthcareworkers@lemmy.ml

    !nurses@lemmy.world

    !nursing@lemmy.world

    !NursingMatters@kbin.social

    !nursingresearch@chirp.social

    …sorted all of them by Top: Month, and there are a grand total of maybe 20 posts spread over only three of the communities. One of those three only showed a single post; and a pretty even split on the remaining two. The rest of them were empty. It’s spread way too thin: I’ve only run into a few other medical peeps here on Lemmy - we don’t have 12 communities worth of material.

    I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.

    !medicine@mander.xyz and !health@lemmy.world were the two most active ones. Mander.xyz seems like a better home for medical talk, but the rules in the sidebar are far too strict for a community this size. !health@lemmy.world seems the best at the moment.

    …and I’m 100% part of the problem I’m whining about. Outside of a couple introduction posts and questions for the community, I haven’t posted anything there either. I should.

    • phonics@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      28 days ago

      This is great! I think the ones that get more subs will generally rise to the top and people will start congregating there.

      I’m seeing a bunch of upvotes on peoples comments here. I’m hoping that those people are also subbing to the communities they see in here.

      I’m gonna try to remember to post this kind of question maybe once a month and over time we’ll get communities popping off.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      3·
      28 days ago

      most of them are on reddit, and probably unaware that lemmy exists, plus there are still medical based forums out there too. probably hard to see out of the 50k users, which one will ask a medical based issue.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      I kinda wish we’d merge them… which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.

      Not necessarily:

      One of the advantages of a decentralized platform like Lemmy is the ability to create parallel communities on the same topic. “You don’t like how a community is being moderated? Go to another instance and start your own community!” (with or without blackjack and hookers)

      However, this is a double-edged sword. The creation of multiple communities on the same (or similar) topics can also fragment the userbase, leading to very sparsely populated communities.

      I think it only makes sense to have multiple communities on the same topic if each version serves a specific niche or has a unique moderation style. I think most of the examples you’ve given would be suitable for consolidation into two or three communities.

      More info on consolidating communities in the pinned thread on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip.

      What are your thoughts?