Ideally your answer is a sub that you are currently posting to but few others are posting to.
I love these kind of memes and try to actively post for a while now. I need to ask my Canadian friends at one point if I can mod that community, the only moderator is absent for a very long time now…
Love your posts there. Keep it up brethren 🫶🏽
oh I loved that sub in reddit! cool beans
Basically every regional community. Think towns and states. Those were some of my favorite communities to engage with
I came here to voice this opinion as well. It’s one of the only things I miss about the other site. I have found people on Mastodon attempting to fill that void with regional hashtags though. YMMV.
we gotta start broad and move local only as the population grows. so for example instead of Columbus you gotta start with Ohio. maybe Pittsburgh can hang out too
!chronicillness@lemmy.world or more specifically (for me at least) !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
And when I tried to ask for information on some treatment it even earned me a downvote. Probably by someone sorting by scaled and not wanting that in their feed or so.
This is a really good idea. Subtribe in my family has a rare autoimmune disease (relapsing polychondritis), for which the only treatment is a drug (Methotrexate) which has lymphoma as a side effect. It’s a fairly rare disease, with only a small percent of sufferers. I should start a community for it.
Since methotrexate is the only tool allopathic doctors have, and since homeopathy is a snake oil industry, there’s a lot of “word of mouth” suggestions from people who’ve had success from a variety of approaches, some of which work for some people, others not. Low dose Naltrexone (off label), Plaquenil, and avoiding food allergies are things doctors aren’t going to recommend because there are few scientific studies in them - because, again, nobody fucking studies the rare diseases.
Communities are really valuable for sufferers of more rare diseases. I think many people casually downvote such off-label approaches because they think it’s some sort of anti-science, anti-allopathic medicine wackadoo, when in fact the diseases are so uncommon they’re practically unresearched and certainly no pharmaceutical companies are researching cures.
Yes! Lots of folks with chronic illness find themselves in a limbo where they can’t get decent treatment or often precise diagnosis. Crowdsourcing relief has mixed results, but in such circumstances reports of rigorous trial and error with various approaches is sometimes helpful in the absence of the sort of care a lot of Americans now can’t even hope for. I know this because I’ve been there. CIDP here since 2010.
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!dadforaminute@lemmy.world is great for people missing parents. Need a hug? DIY advice? Someone to be proud of you? There’s a whole group of dads poised and ready to help!
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckyournelsonlamp
A fediverse successor to Tumblr’s FuckYourNoguchiTable blog and Reddit’s r/FuckYourEamesLounge. Interior design appreciation, (light) shitposting, and discussion beyond basic MCM staples.
!fuckyournelsonlamp@lemmy.world – Instance agnostic link.
Just subscribed
Thanks! I’d like to post more regularly on my part but just dropping images from mobile feels lazy and I haven’t had much time in front of my desktop to properly format posts recently. Hope to see you there!
Not trying to remake it, because i already have a full time job being self employee and having ADHD
I go back to Reddit weekly to check in with r/locksmith, r/lockshop, and r/accesscontrols
There’s a wealth of knowledge to pull from there that Lemmy just can’t duplicate right now
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- !fedigrow@lemm.ee to see which communities people are trying to grow
A way to softly encrypt/obfuscate your handwriting. Fun to get into with friends!
this is so cool, you will definitely see me there either every day or never or maybe once in a while
Lol, I’ll take it
Oh man, this brings me back. I remember passing notes in middle school in bootleg Elian script - I’m in my 30s now.
It’s by far my favorite cipher because it’s easy to read, it’s easy to modify if someone else learns to read it, and you get a ton of artistic license with the way your letters look so long as they adhere to the basic framework. Really well formed Elian is unrecognizable as script to someone who isn’t looking for it.
Thanks for this, subscribed!
Hey hey, awesome! Yeah it’s super fun. And if you’re good at it (I’m not) it can be super creative!
My buddies and I, and likewise those in this community, try to stick to the standard alphabet arrangement, so we can all read each other’s stuff. Though we do dabble in other puzzlery, using basic Elian as a layer of obfuscation.
Welcome and enjoy!
Anything audio related…
does that include phonotactics
Most of the video game subs, BG3 is active enough, but I like Tribes and EvE online and their subs are sorta dead. I know niche titles wont have as much discussion, but representation would be nice.
Back with newsgroups the general rule was to go from general to specific. You start with a general discussion group and when discussions about video games get annoying you create a games group. If then there are too many Baldur’s Gate discussions you create BG. If they are dominated by Baldur’s Gate 3 you create a Baldur’s Gate 3 group. If everyone is fawning over Withers you create a Withers group which of course will be flooded with discussion about the Withers’ tits mod, which shall get its own group.
Meaning you should create a group when demand is there and not the other way around.
This is the best approach. I make copy your comment as a dedicated post on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Sure, go ahead.
I been posting to my little !elderscrollsonline@lemmy.world one for months. I think there have been under 5 people who’ve posted other than me in the last year. !motocross@lemmy.world as well, and that one I think I’ve been the only one to comment aside from when I asked if the community was dead lol.
Just gonna keep it going, people will show up eventually. Probably. Lol
I miss the random passion of /r/CFB. It was great because all of the toxicity normally in sports was gone, and everyone was just enjoying the game and news about their teams. In the off-season people would concoct the most convoluted, elaborate shitpost for why their team is the best. I think my favorite essay was once about how the Alabama Crimson Tide’s greatest enemy wasn’t any other team, but the full moon, and went into a heavy statistical data dive to demonstrate how the teams few losses (they were seriously on an unprecedented run for over a decade) all came on or around the full moon. That and the team are the Tide, so of course it’s the moon.
That type of energy focuses on college football is lacking in Lemmy, and I haven’t found something similar here yet
Agreed. Sports is one of the last things that tempt me to log back into reddit. The sport I follow has a community here and a little bit of activity, but not enough to keep game threads active.
Well I am hosting the !cocktails@lemmy.world community, we welcome you!
The ones I miss are the local city sub, haircare/curly hair, and the nonsexual nude threads, normal nudes and naked progress, and the draw me nsfw.
I just subscribed to cocktails. Thanks for putting that together.
I would like to see more rpg discussion, I like that the !rpg@ttrpg.network doesn’t end-up an D&D community like in the alien website, but I would love to see more than one discussion thread per week.
Not that the subreddit was enormously active, but would love to see more folks over here instead of reddit. Unfortunately I think a lot of that crowd is still stuck on Facebook too, so there’s that.
If this one got more activity, I could stop using Instagram completely (already dumped FB and Reddit).
