Particularly one that you personally would like to post/comment in on a regular basis

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    20·
    9 months ago

    It doesn’t work that way, sadly. Successful niche communities split off from bigger ones after there is enough shared interest to make the split necessary. Creating a new empty community from nowhere will likely result in its staying empty. That is the state of many niche communities we already have.

    • clayh@lemmy.ml
      171·
      9 months ago

      Everybody is obsessed with with copying Reddit here.

      Nobody wants to put in the work to build it organically like Reddit was, they just want to press a button and have a bot “seed” content until poof! There’s a community!

      It just doesn’t, and won’t ever, work that way.

      • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        9 months ago

        I don’t necessarily disagree, but Reddit wasn’t all OC at the start, either.

        I guess now there are so many social media sites now that some people spend all their time, to paraphrase Cory Doctorow, cross-posting between 5 sites for Internet points or to build a following. It sucks, but plugging away posting OC will build it up over time.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Either devoid of posts or full of reposts from other communities with empty comment sections

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      well since this is the highest voted comment (at +11) as of this writing, I created that community. Hopefully some people who have the same interests join along too.

      https://lemmy.world/c/cranetrainexcavators I was going to Call it cranestrainsandexcavatorsandstufflikethat but Lemmy has a silly 20 character limit ;)

      • safesyrup@feddit.ch
        2·
        9 months ago

        Thats very nice of you :D I will subscribe to it and post as soon as my instance allows again, it has some weird server error that allows me to see posts and comment via the api but not much else

        • laverabe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah something weird was happening, this comment just posted but it was trying to load yesterday and wouldn’t load.

  • Kraiden@kbin.social
    10·
    9 months ago

    /r/happycowgifs

    Seems dumb, but having your feed interspersed with random happy cows just makes all the terrible headlines less terrible.

  • Devi@kbin.social
    9·
    9 months ago

    All the little niche TV subs, there’s a Doctor Who one here, which is soooo much nicer than the reddit one, but I haven’t found any of my other shows. I’d quite like the trashy TV ones cause I joined facebook groups and I want to talk about like, internalised misogyny in Sister Wives, but all the discussions are like “Robyn has a fat bum, hahaha”.

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      we’re too dysfunctional to participate. sorry.

      JK. I will go over there and join. But what would we even talk about? All the strange bizarre day-to-day decisions we make that are rooted in a twisted childhood?

      • JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
        5·
        9 months ago

        We talk about our lives as recovering adults, affected by growing up and/or living with active alcoholics or disfunctional family members. How did we get here, where are we today, and how can we help each other start anew, cope, and move forward with our lives as happy human beings. We support each other.

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think it’s big enough to support small separate communities yet. I think we need to let smaller similar communities exist inside larger ones

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    6·
    9 months ago

    British panel shows.

    Listed links to stream episodes of shows like Taskmaster, Have I Got News For You, QI, Would I Lie to You, and 8 out of 9 Cats do Countdown.

    When daily news and life got too grim, it offered 30-60m of just brain dead funny distraction. Now, have to put up with Google and Youtube search bullshit and most of the time they’re wrong.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    I don’t know why exactly, but I’ve been missing VXJunkies lately. Sometimes you just want to spew cool sounding nonsense for no good reason. But I think you need a big user pool to pull from to keep a community like that humming.

  • zcd@lemmy.ca
    71·
    9 months ago

    /r/weightroom was a great little community and resource with high quality posts for folks interested in weightlifting and getting stronger. It is the community that I miss the most from reddit. It helped me learn how to use barbells, evaluate routines and change my physique dramatically. Literally changed the trajectory of my life

    • Delphia@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      The Steroid and PED communities were probably the best single source of information for them online. Shame they are also 18+ communities so you cant even lurk them without logging in.

      • zcd@lemmy.ca
        1·
        9 months ago

        You know that’s a very good point. I considered doing a cycle and having that information available really gave me the information I needed to make an informed decision. Without it I probably would have done some serious damage

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Pretty much all the communities I used to be a part of in my Reddit days were… pretty toxic to say the least. I don’t think I’d ever wanna go back to experiencing that again.

    This is why I’m an immigrant.