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I'm genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

r/PCMasterRace r/GameDeals r/Fitness r/BuildAPC

Subs that have good guides and community info

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm surprised to find there are no adult subs popping up.

I hit up my brother in law who is involved in the adult industry and he is going to spin up an instance that's super ok with adult content in the next day or so.

Let's face it, without porn tumbler disappeared, and I think Reddit will too when it bans anything nsfw

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

The NSFW ones.

I should make a whole instance dedicated to that. Alas, I can't afford it and I lack the knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can give you a push in the right direction as long as you are comfortable running commands in a terminal. After the initial 15-30 minutes of technical setup, it becomes easy. But other than that I have no desire to run an NSFW community.

Let me know - I could even set it up w/ you and hand you the keys, per se. I just don’t want lack of tech knowledge to be a barrier to entry for anyone.

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

You sound like a pretty great person and I really appreciate the offer. The biggest issue is money sadly, a fedi instance takes a lot of bandwidth and one dedicated to nsfw content will also take a lot of storage, both are things that in a vps would take a good bit of money and I'm already spending some, even if not A LOT, on my raccoonden.moe

The most band and storage heavy part of it is my radio which I host on a raspberrypi along with a mumble server, but there's only so much the poor thing can handle on it's own. Today I installed some neovim plugins and I already noticed using nvim feels a little slower, so I doubt a lemmy instance is a possibility.

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

Can the images not be hosted on redgifs? Is there an option for external hosting?

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

Lemmy is very lightweight in terms of RAM and CPU, but I agree storage would be a primary concern. Bandwidth TBD - I’ve only run my instance for about 24 hours

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

I wonder if another raspberrypi could handle it all on it's own if it's lightweight. But then again, it might need the same door that goes to the pi I already use and in that case things wouldn't work.

It would be very cool to host it but I think I'm gonna limit myself to modding a sub for something I like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, whatever you do, what matters is you are here and engaging and building the community. That counts for something.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You could probably get a lemmy going in the cloud I know there are cloud services for mastodon don't know how much it costs but I don't think a small instance is that expensive just charge a fee of a few dollars per user and you should easily cover your cost and make a small bit of money as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Here are the ones I'd most like to see:

  • AskScience
  • AskWomenOver30
  • auntienetwork
  • CozyPlaces
  • crowbro
  • EarthPorn
  • FinancialIndependence
  • fitness30plus
  • GenX
  • greyhounds and longboyes
  • Guitar, JustinGuitar, LearnGuitar, and guitarporn
  • hyenas
  • menopause
  • oldhagfashion
  • personalfinance
  • PetiteFashionAdvice
  • Philadelphia
  • rance
  • retrofuturism
  • RStudio
  • ShitAmericansSay
  • SimpleLiving
  • space
  • tattoos
  • TeenMomOGandTeenMom2 because I love my stupid guilty pleasure trash TV lol
  • TheGirlSurvivalGuide
  • xxfitness
  • And every single animal subreddit
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Both are a bit new and I still need moderators given the larger scale, but c/EarthPorn is now here, as is c/personalfinance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, definitely personalfinance!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For an askscience alternative, I'd say check out: https://mander.xyz/c/nostupidquestions

For space stuff, I'd say check out https://mander.xyz/c/astronomy and https://mander.xyz/c/space

mander.xyz as a whole is meant to be science and nature focused.

Granted they're all tiny and have low engagement, but it's a start.

[–] leftylibra 3 points 1 year ago

Happy to report that r/menopause has moved to c/[email protected]

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

I need some more sports communities. NFL, CFB, football/soccer, NBA, MLB, Hockey, etc. A lot of the very niche ones like certain anime (r/onepiece, r/kingdom, r/hunterxhunter) or book (r/asoiaf, r/stormlight_archive) or game (r/deadbydaylight, r/stellaris, r/EU4) probably aren't going to get high enough populations to exist here so i don't expect it. But I need the sport specific ones

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/r/boardgames and /r/emacs for me. I can get some of my boardgame fix on Mastodon but the more the better. I see that there is a [email protected] but not very active so far and not sure if the mod is still around.

Edit, apparently both exist!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cat communities are definitely a rabbit hole that is fun to go down on Reddit. Sport ones like r/NBA and r/Formula1 are some of my most used subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Final Fantasy XIV. No, you have a problem!

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

r/piano r/Ukraine r/linux r/linuxphones r/philosophy r/geopolitics

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At the very least Linux and Linux phones are a thing here, I'd love to see them take off though

Imo those would be a lot easier than other subs anyway, considering Linux users tend to prefer open source solutions as a general rule

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

r/Programmerhumor, r/Linux, r/Piracy, r/Apple, r/Playstation, r/me_irl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some music subs I like to peruse like r/Headphones, HeadphoneAdvice, BudgetAudiophile, Vinyl etc. If anyone has some alts to suggest, let me know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep +1 for subs like /r/vinyl, /r/audiophile and /r/budgetaudiophile

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One for home theaters, and one for audiophiles.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

r/squaredcircle r/formuladank

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

more animal pic subs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/selfhosted is an amazing community full of passionate people that live for this type of federated community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

If you want to see a specific community that doesn't exist, then set it up and post some content! If you want the type of places to hang out that you had on Reddit, you need to create it, nurture it, and grow it. There's no guarantee that Lemmy will be the place to land during the Reddit exodus, but it is a place to land, and a damn fine one at that. Putting my money where my mouth is, if you ever want to talk about calculators head on over to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a professional wrestling fan I want to see squaredcircle and aew official on lemmy

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

I actually have a list of them so just to jot down a few.

~~r/CozyPlaces~~ ~~r/coreboot~~ ~~r/rabbits~~ ~~r/VoidBunnies~~ ~~r/RoomPorn~~ ~~r/WritingPrompts~~ r/ MirrorsEdgeAesthetics ~~r/ Otterable~~ r/OnlinePreservation ~~r/lagoloaf r/GoldenAgeMinecraft r/FarmsofStardewValley~~ ~~r/EarthPorn~~ EDIT: ~~oh and ~~r/UsabilityPorn~~ https://old.reddit.com/r/UsabilityPorn/~~

That's about it for one's I know of at least, that aren't either hyper specific obscure or else some degree of NSFW, aside from SnakesWithHats but I actually got that started here. https://lemmy.ml/c/snakeswithhats

EDIT: I actually started a handful of these now, since I wanted to see em here so here's some now.

VoidBunnies GoldenAgeMinecraft UsabilityPorn FarmsofStardewValley Lagoloaf RoomPorn EarthPorn Otterable

EDIT 2: Also a Coreboot page since I didn't see anyone make that surprisingly.

Coreboot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Writing Prompts has already been created! I also really wanted to see it here. [email protected]

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

Loseit, maliciouscompliance, skincareaddiction, halloween, horror, ladyboners, Microdosing, workreform, truecrime, movies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I thought about creating loseit, but I'm not up for moderating something like that. I can see it getting hairy quickly.

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

So many, but I understand this is a tiny community in comparison. But content about all areas of 3dprinting, clay modelling, android, cycling, UK based groups, digital art and traditional art, food, football or soccer as some call it, Liverpool FC, much more humour and comedy, gaming from retro to modern, gardening, fungi and mosses, music, photography, retro computing, all aspects of science, UK wildlife and conservation, writing and poetry, etc... I could go on and on ..... I understand some of these are represented here, but they need a boost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, UnitedKingdom, UkPolitics, and CasualUk for me.

On a related note, are there any good UK based instances? The only UK one I could find was one for Glasgow.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

/r/retrobattlestations, /r/retrocomputing, /r/BBS... I'd be happy to mod one, but don't see how to create - I'm new so... I'd love for a BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) and other retro-computing subs. w00t w00t!!!

pAULIE42o

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think an exodus to a new site allows an interesting opportunity to break from the restriction of traditions and create new communities. There's no reason the 196 clones have to be called '196'! (or worse, '197')

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