Following the other thread (550 upvotes and 366 comments at the moment: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417), one of the complaints that people had what that some communities only exist on lemmy.ml and don’t have alternatives on other instances.
Let’s discuss this and see if we can organize together.
I suggest to have one topic per comment so that is is easier to discuss.
Copy all the local only communities from each instance .world and .ml separately put in a excel spreadsheet control F search each community
Feel like that would be easier…
EDIT: I counted 50 pages of communities just for .world before I stopped counting. So that’s like a lot of fucking work…
The only way this makes sense to do, is for an admin who has access to the lemmy database. .World database, to do this themselves. I’m assuming with their admin server privileges it would be the fastest most accurate way.
But then they’d have to manually do .ml bc I doubt ml will do that to help them lol
Feel free!
On my side I feel like most of https://lemmy.ml/communities are already covered. This post is for communities that other people have already identified as “not having alternatives” (see complaints on the other post), so they should know them already.
Good luck
Privacy: !privacy@lemmy.ml
!privacyguides@lemmy.one is a good one. The instance admin comes and go, but the instance is still up-to-date
Other active options:
!privacy@links.hackliberty.org
Some more options for those looking.
Just had a look:
- !privacy@monero.house: site seems down? http://monero.house/
- !privacy@lemmy.ca: last posts 4 hours and 9 days ago
- !privacy@links.hackliberty.org: last post 4 days ago
- !privacy@sopuli.xyz: last post 11 days ago
- !privacy@lemmy.world: last post 3 hours and 8 hours ago
- !privacy@community.nicfab.it: site is down: https://community.nicfab.it/c/privacy
Added lemmy.ca and LW to the top comment
Sorry, I wasn’t checking them. Just found them under my subscriptions and shared.
Thanks for checking them out though.
Linux: !linux@lemmy.ml
!linux@lemmy.world seems quite active, I guess if any people move to it it will become even more active.
!linux@programming.dev could probably be a nice one too if people want to avoid hypercentralization on LW
If you know any other, comment below and we can see which one we decide to select as “the one” to avoid fragmentation.
Open source: !opensource@lemmy.ml
- !opensource@programming.dev seems like a nice alternative (more subs than !opensource@lemmy.world)
there’s also !foss@beehaw.org
I’m always torn with Beehaw as they defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
Posting there just mean that a third of Lemmy won’t see your post.
Personal finance: !personalfinance@lemmy.ml
There are a few country-based:
- !ausfinance@aussie.zone
- !personalfinancecanada@lemmy.ca
- !personalfinanceuk@feddit.uk
- !finances@jlai.lu
Maybe it makes more sense to have country-based communities?
Personal finance: !personalfinance@lemmy.ml
This is a big one for me.
It’s not that active (for such a generalist topic) and I always thought because it was on lemmy.ml.
But as I said, personal finance communities probably gain to be on countries instances to be relevant to their audiences
Yes, I just posted over there that:
So if there’s an issue with lemmy.ml, boycott it - unsubscribe, give the other communities on more agreeable instances your time and they will grow and prosper. If there isn’t a relevant alternative start one.
And this is a key step - identify where there aren’t alternatives and start them. It might also be worth compiling a list of the alternatives so people can make the switch.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that Lemmy isn’t like Reddit in that you could just passively consume content all day. If there’s a problem, we all need to roll our sleeves up and pitch in.
Worth also mentioning that !fedigrow@lemm.ee is a good place to discuss topics on how we can help Lemmy grow and thrive.
Simple Living: !simpleliving@lemmy.ml
!eudaimonia@lemmy.dbzer0.com : “A community about happy living. Thoughts and praxis about long-term wellbeing, contentment, and personal fulfillment.”
Jellyfin: !jellyfin@lemmy.ml
Maybe something for https://lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
I think the problem is not so much that “communities don’t exist”, but that they are far less popular and active than the lemmy.ml ones, and when presented with a choice new users will typically choose the community that is more active and has the most subs. You can’t simply solve that by creating another community on another instance. A concerted effort would be needed to get people to move and to get them to pick the alternative community over the lemmy.ml one. Raising awareness and defederation by bigger instances (like lemmy.world) would help immensely.
For me the big ones are !linux@lemmy.ml and !programmerhumor@lemmy.ml btw, which do exist elsewhere but the alternatives are stale.
This is it.
The games community in lemmy.world is a bunch of folks advertising their indie game or YouTube stream. Usually a few comments here and there.
The games community on lemmy.ml is a bunch of folks sharing gaming journalism. Pretty active.
I always thought the real gaming community was !games@sh.itjust.works
That’s a way better community! Thanks for the recommendation!
You’re welcome!
https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor seems pretty active? Edit: nice link !programmer_humor@programming.dev
Indeed, it is.
I posted to !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca about !linux@programming.dev
Someone else and I cross posted all of the content from !linux@lemmy.ml to !linux@programming.dev this morning.
I went to Reddit and HN to get content to that community too.
Is it really that stale?
On the other hand, I don’t think defederation is necessary nor useful. Build rather than break.
Hey I applaud your effort, yesterday the top post was several days old and top day was empty on one of the subs, so this is already better.
I’m a bit skeptical if that will be enough though. Active discussion is the meat and the potatoes for me when I go to a tech community, and for that you need more subscribers.
Subscribers come to active communities. Feel free to post there too.
When presented with a choice, people usually pick the community that is the most active and already has the most subs.
But I am definitely giving it a shot.
Right, but when one of the communities has a reputation for authoritarian admins and mods dedicated to spreading propaganda it’s a bit different.
- sffa.community?
- literature.cafe?
- wait for a Marvel instance?
- !commandandconquer@lemmygrad.ml - which isn’t much of an alternative
- One for lemmy.zip perhaps?
- !discworld@sffa.community but it is a bit dead at the moment. Although as I’ve been the main poster it is clearly my fault or a dearth of news. I have tended to cross-posting to them both, so I may just focus on this one.
- !web1@lemmy.world - no posts (that I can see)
