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.
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.”
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I wanted to say that I see you going to such great efforts to help people all across the entire Fediverse, and to say thank you - we appreciate you!:-)
Yeah, Blaze definitely deserves some kind of “threadiverse citizen’s volunteer of the year” award or something.
They are always on r/RedditAlternatives steering people towards the Fediverse too, along with a few others. Unfortunately most people there are resistant, and the heavily leftist-leaning nature of the content here turns a lot of people away (many instances including reddthat.com do not block either hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml by default for new users, so all those posts promoting literal violence against e.g. landlords show up immediately in their All feeds), but it is still awesome to see them trying!:-)
Personally I think the technology will need to be improved first - e.g. adding content labels such as Mastodon already has (and everything else these days except Lemmy) - before we will see wider acceptance, especially since there are a lot of centrists who nonetheless contribute niche content that otherwise will not feel comfortable here and thus remain on Reddit, or a lot of people simply swear off social media altogether. But damn, if we do succeed it will in no small part be due to their constant efforts!:-) 🥰
They are always on r/RedditAlternatives steering people towards the Fediverse too, along with a few others. Unfortunately most people there are resistant, and the heavily leftist-leaning nature of the content here turns a lot of people away (many instances including reddthat.com do not block either hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml by default for new users, so all those posts promoting literal violence against e.g. landlords show up immediately in their All feeds), but it is still awesome to see them trying!:-)
Yeah, some people there have the worst bad faith I’ve ever seen. Anyway, at least some other people can read the comments and learn about Lemmy.
Thanks!
And happy cake day to you!
Thanks, trying to help!
!freecad@lemmy.ml, currently moderated by @zksmk@lemmy.ml @zksmk@slrpnk.net @zksmk@sopuli.xyz.
Could not find any current alternatives.
Any instance recommendations? Maybe programming.dev? Or a maker/craft-oriented instance?
!classical_music@lemmy.ml (@erpicht@lemmy.ml)
Possible alternative:
Possible alternatives?
- !crow_ompanions@feddit.de (fragile instance?)
- !corvids@sopuli.xyz (broader than crows)
@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world (prolific poster) and @Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml (mod)
Thoughts?
!fusionenergy@lemmy.ml and !fusion@lemmy.ml
Mods: @CHEFKOCH@lemmy.ml and @zksmk@lemmy.ml @zksmk@slrpnk.net @zksmk@sopuli.xyz
Could not find any current alternatives.
Any instance recommendations? Maybe mander.xyz? (@sal@mander.xyz)
- !web1@lemmy.world - no posts (that I can see)
- !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.
I’m on .ml and have been considering making an account on another instance, but it seems like most major instances require an email. .ml did not require an email.
Email is optional on https://sh.itjust.works/signup
Instance URL checks out
Indeed it does, most of the time. The admins are pretty good at what they do.
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. You can’t simply solve that by creating another community on another instance. A concerted effort would be needed to get people to move. 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.
https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor seems pretty active? Edit: nice link !programmer_humor@programming.dev
Indeed, it is.
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!
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.
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.
They just moved to !collapse@lemm.ee, the post is pinned
Awesome - I switched my subs
!fdroid@lemdro.id would be perfect! @ijeff@lemdro.id can we make that happen?
I guess we should get people interested in managing that community. Maybe a post to !android@lemdro.id to see who would like to do that could be a starting point
How about asking @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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…
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
!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.
Interesting, doesn’t seem that active unfortunately, I guess the privacyguides one takes most of the posts besides the lemmy.ml one
Perhaps it’s not as active as I’d assumed. I only semi-recently subscribed so mostly have the initial fetch.
I like !privacyguides@lemmy.one because the project is behind it
Whenever friends ask about resources, I always link them to the privacyguides website. I should use their community more as well
