Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven’t found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
It’s mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more
Well, you’ve encouraged me to make a comment! And given me a great community to watch Lemmy grow!
Very true, and that’s why I think everyone on Lemmy should probably focus on a few core communities instead of spreading across niche ones that are empty. For instance, I think that photography communities (both .ml and .world, as well as other instances) would benefit from just posting to pics for now, to gain more traction on those ones.
Once we reach a constant flow of content, then it will be time to split.
On paper? Wtf? I don’t see that taking off. Is it a paranoid privacy thing?
Individual game subs. Even a niche game usually had just enough of an active community that I could talk about it get help with pretty much anything.
The generic “Gaming” and “PC gaming” and even “BoardGames” crowd is here; but they’re mostly good for general news, not discussion of specific games. If I want discussion about lore in Baldi’s Basics, for example, I ain’t getting it in the general communities.
Transphobia free content is what I miss most. Ever since the reddit influx, there’s been a huge rise in transphobia
It’s not so strange is it? It’s not like most people feel comfortable around trans people. It took a very long time before even black people were treated normally.
I don’t actually like the term phobia either. People are not “irrationally afraid” . They just prefer hanging out with people they are used to.
Someone recently killed another person because they thought they were trans (they weren’t) I would definitely call that irrationally afraid. Maaaaybe you could put it up as an extreme case but shit like that does happen. Trans people are afraid for their lives my dude.
I understand. Isn’t that even more of a reason to connect to people here?
Should we just not talk to them? Leave them alone so they don’t get scared by our comments?
I would rather see them as part of the community like anyone else.
I don’t actually like the term phobia either. People are not “irrationally afraid” . They just prefer hanging out with people they are used to.
Weird how nobody ever gets this up in arms over terms like hydrophobia 🤔
No idea what you even mean with that. Did you expect a response with “oh that’s strange, I’m sure everyone is really comfortable around trans people these days”.
They just aren’t.
I think instead of being hostile against people who admit they are not comfortable, maybe try to help and be a friend instead so people can start to understand that there is nothing to fear?
Trans people started one of the first mastadon instances and one of the first Lemmy instances as well. I think that’s really cool, and I don’t get why you would drop a oneliner with some kind of witty response when you can actually communicate with people here.
Communities for people with rare disorders or illnesses. And plant communities for specific plant groups, so not plants in general. But most of all, i miss the fact that i could search for very specific content to see what creative ideas other people had on how to do certain things. Or people who shared many years of experience and experimenting.
r/WritingPrompts. The !writingprompts@lemmy.ml community here only has a few posts.
