Apologies if this isn’t the best place to post this… but I’ve been wondering.
When I was researching moving over to the Fediverse, I noticed I actually couldn’t find that much scalie-specific instances. Which of course isn’t really bad per se, as we still have instances like this which is totally awesome. But anyway, then when I moved to Lemmy, one of the communities I have been following on that other platform, r/Dragons, doesn’t really have a Lemmy equivalent, which is a bit more of a bummer to me. Maybe there just isn’t much of us on the Fediverse (yet)? I guess I want to ask this: anyone know of any scalies on the Fediverse? Or better yet, Lemmy communities? If there isn’t any of the latter yet, I’d be totally willing to make one! Only thing is I don’t have much to post there…
Lemme know what you think (unintentional pun intended)!
I guarantee you that if you posted scaly stuff on /c/furry@pawb.social, no one would have anything bad to say about it being scaly. Most people would probably welcome it. I don’t know if you noticed, but it’s a little bit dead here. We want all the content we can get.
If you do want to make a scaly-focused community, just remember to feed it or it’s going to go the same way as musclefurs and furrywriting.
I know, yeah! Talking a bit with you folks here really motivated me to actually start posting some content here, and honestly, on Lemmy in general! Apologies if this was a silly question because looking on it in retrospect yeah it’s a bit weird to start making another community when there’s so little content in Lemmy that there doesn’t need to be that kind of distinction (and that kind of fragmentation might actually end up harming more than helping).
But about my first point, who knows though… you might see some pictures of dergs turn up somewhere here. Maybe…!
I’ve never felt out of place as I’ve always just just considered scalies as just a sub-category of the furry fandom. Same with avians, arthropods, or marines. Anyway I’ve found quite a few scalies on Mastodon and there is also discoverability by following hashtags. I haven’t found much scalie specific communities on any Lemmy instances but if you feel up to creating and moderating one go for it.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Really, the ‘I don’t have much to post there’ problem is what’s keeping it from happening, I think. We can comfortably exist under the broader ‘furry’ umbrella, though - nobody’s going to complain (or at least, nobody has complained yet) about scaly content here.
I do have to admit I’m part of the problem…! I think that this probably is the reason why meme communities on Lemmy are so big right now – memes are designed to be reposted, so we’re seeing a lot of that content opposed to original content (which isn’t a bad thing, but it tends to drown out other content on All pages). Maybe I can get around to making more art for once and I can start to populate Lemmy with more content :)
But for right now, I agree that things are quite fine as they are. I don’t really feel a need to create a separate community as I would on say, another larger platform, because right now this space (and others on the Fediverse) feels like a community where people’s voices are actually heard. It’s really refreshing, honestly. But yeah, it’s nice to see what people think on this! Thanks for your input!
I think Lemmy is simply too small for that level of separation at the moment. Of course anyone is welcome to make a new community on this server, but I wouldn’t say we are anywhere near the point of content saturation that it’s necessary to split it up to prevent stuff from being drowned out. The server is fielding maybe a handful of posts a day locally across all communities, any kind of art or discussion at all will be seen and appreciated.
That’s true, yeah. I do really like how the Fediverse is growing (and quickly too!) so we might see that start to happen later on (I sometimes already see a bit of niche communities on Lemmy being created). But at the same time, I do have to agree that although there’s less posts, there’s a genuineness to each post that really makes me appreciate them more.
I would say that posting your scaly content and tagging it with #scaly/#scalies would help, but I’m not sure about how #Lemmy treats hashtags when federating.
