This place is pretty neat and I’d like to see it become more active. If there’s enough demand for a community about a topic I know a fair bit about, I might just start it, or at least hope to encourage others to do the same :)
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If Fedibridge becomes more active, it could help fuel more users and the rest will follow
By FediBridge, do you mean connecting different parts of the fediverse? Could you explain how it’s done?
No i mean this community
https://piefed.social/c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Its goal is to spread the word about the Fediverse
Well things like Piefed are built using a different language. But it is also a article aggregation platform. But being that it is on activitypub it should bridge and be connected. Meaning someone on Piefed will see this comment thread, respond, and never have to create an account outside their instance from their applications. We will also see their posts. As more social media platforms rise and are connected through activitypub, the user base of Lemmy doesn't necessarily have to grow, as the content may grow through sheer connectivity.
I believe that may be what they meant.
Mastodon I think you may be able to see through Lemmy, I just can't remember how
Yep you can see Mastodon to Lemmy and back again. Piefed goes a step further and pull comments from both platforms.
Thank you for the detailed explanation. How do you connect, for example, Piefed and Lemmy?
It happens natively on the backend through activitypub. So for insurance, I logged into Piefed, and made this response from there for show.
Posted from piefed
Which like email (which is the "og" federation) you can see both responses, and see the @ will show my response came from outside
-posred from lemmy
Ah, I see now. Thanks for the demonstration :)
Anytime. It was either that or go try to chase down where 2 of the chickens went to in the woods... Figure I'll just let them turn up when it gets dark
Damn the quality of illustrations in https://lemmy.ml/c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works is superb.
Call out to !watercolor@lemmy.ml for those into their coloured waters.
Wouldn't mind seeing more activity in sysadmin because it is the only subreddit I use.
I wish the following were more active:
- !truecomics@midwest.social
- !streetwear@lemmy.world
- !vintageads@sh.itjust.works
- !catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world
if anyone's looking for a community to start posting to, I encourage them to give one of those a shot.
I wish people would crosspost more or link to other related communities.
I think this doesn't happen as often because of the smaller population. Cross posting lead to mods deleting posts because you would end up with an article showing 3 times in the first 20 posts on active or such. If/when growth in the fedeverse gets large enough I think we'll see it more
Philosophy or at least philosophy memes.
Also, more signposting and less doom. All of my algorithms are so depressing already.
You just need a big blocklist. I wish it was easier to share/crowd source them
rpg ones both mmo and pnp. I wish the communities were here. I also wish orgs would run their own domains for their members. like the world science fiction society or local makerspaces.
What about !rpg@ttrpg.network which isn't the most active but exists, feel free to post content there.
And pretty sure there is a video game community too
Well as you say they are not active which is the part of the OP question "or become more active". No matter how active I am on them it will not replace a whole community being based someplace. Its like star trek online was on reddit but most champions online activity is in steam. It comes down to key individuals who are massively into the thing who create the guides and content basically. I hung out at these places but I was not a driver. Im 100% I would have never put in the time to figure out the torpedo math, that is for sure.
I've tried to post a few things in the TTRPG communities and they rarely get many comments. It's disheartening.
yeah I just a bit ago did a post that was sorta a life check. It really surprises me as I always thought of the communities as heavily geek which I would think would appeal to being here. I would expect by the time I came to something like this subjects like that would be well represented.
You'd think, wouldn't you? I suspect it's because we're mostly middle aged (or older) so we're not playing TTRPGs any more. But I am! And I demand posts!
I see so many sports communities to. Its like we are going to just let the jocks out nerd us!!!
Time for some NERD PRIDE
A big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.
Communities focused on trolling, griefing, or bullying would be nice 🙂
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There’s a subreddit for my town but I don’t think there’s enough of us on Lemmy to keep it active.
A while ago I tried to look for something similar to Reddit's Tip of My Tongue/Joystick (looking for media/games you have vague memories of and don't know the title), but didn't seem to find one. And I suspect it's a bit niche thing.
A whowouldwin community.
Battleboarding communities draw a lot of engagement and help retain new users among the younger demographics.
I just want the user base to grow enough to support small niche communities.
That was Reddit at its best and Lemmy just doesn’t have the user base to support it yet
c/Mexico... But seeing how most of the "news" from my country in the fediverse are government propaganda (and people get mad when it gets pointed out), I could stay on r/Mexico and it would be the same.
Also a general lack of latinamerican content.
Edit: and I mean fully in spanish.
Emulation and piracy.
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is fairly active by Lemmy standards!
I actually only found Lemmy because I was looking for another SA community online after my last one had toxic mods. Can't say for sure what it's like here but the SA comm here deserves more attention I feel like. Of course, I could probably post on there some more....
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We need more memes about US elections
The kind of communities that hand out free sex, drugs, cash or scotch. I'm a simple man.