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I personally love arcade racing games, but I found no community on Lemmy. There is a need for speed community, but it looks dead. Is anyone else passionate about arcade racing games and would be interested in this?

Searching lemmyverse.net yields the following:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

None of the communities are actively moderated, and only .world has activity in the past month.

Is this a case where consolidation towards .world is permissible, or would it be wiser to consolidate towards one of the smaller instances?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25393337

⚠️ Disclaimer: These aren't the best or only horror communities on Lemmy; they're just the ones I and others moderate. For more groups, use this link or the search bar. (Also, post below)⚠️

[email protected]

H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of humanity, where ancient, malevolent beings known as the Great Old Ones slumber in the depths of space or time. After Lovecraft’s death, the Mythos has been expanded and developed by many authors, including August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These and many other authors have helped to flesh out the Mythos into a rich and complex Dark Universe.

[email protected]

A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it’s many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

“cosmic horror… is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock… themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries… the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale…”

[email protected]

Our community shares lore-inspired content, links, and memes based on the SCP Fan-fiction universe.

[email protected]

For all your horror movie needs.

[email protected]

Horror book discussion, requests, news, trivia, best of, worst of, etc. All-inclusive horror literature community.

[email protected]

Analog horror can be seen as a descendant of creepypasta and found footage films. It draws inspiration from earlier works like The Blair Witch Project and The Ring, which utilized similar themes of manipulated media and unsettling narratives. The genre gained traction with the success of Local 58, No Through Road, and Gemini Home Entertainment. It is characterized by its use of low-fidelity visuals, cryptic messages, and a nostalgic aesthetic reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog media, often set between the 1960s and 1990s

[email protected]

A creepypasta is a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet. The term creepypasta has since become a catch-all term for any horror content posted onto the Internet.

These are just a couple communities i've fond online, feel free to add more below.

[email protected]

The title should be the first sentence, while the body should be the second.

[email protected]

This is a community for sharing your favorite stories from any tabletop game you’ve experienced!

[email protected]

Hey storytellers! 📖 Welcome to our cozy corner for short stories – whether you’re spinning your own yarns or diving into favorites. Grab a virtual seat, share your quick tales, and soak up the creativity. From original gems to cherished classics, let’s have a blast with bite-sized narratives. It’s all about the love of short stories and the joy of sharing. Join the fun!

[email protected]

A community for sharing short scary stories.

[email protected]

Is there a way to access engagement stats for a community to make a (daily) time series? Something along the lines of exporting data ever 24 hours at 2:00 UTC.

This is the data I am referring to:

Perhaps an API of some sort. A formal method that goes beyond writing a scrapper.

Proposal to consolidate [email protected] into [email protected].

World community has less activity and is not actively moderated. SDF Org instance is stable and well-federated.

[email protected] and [email protected] are both small, but moderated by active users.

Opinions on which should be the main one?

We've been working on these for some time, and with the recent uptick in signups, we tried to finish up the first few pages so that new users could use them.

You can find them all on fedecan.ca under Guides & Resources. For those that are not familiar, this is the website for the non-profit (Fedecan) that manages lemmy.ca.

We're planning to gather some feedback on the technical Fediverse communities first, before sharing the guides more broadly, in order to catch any issues early.

If you want to add to them, feel free to reach out, and we can help you coordinate if someone else is also working on it.

The new sections:

• What is the Fediverse?
• Getting started with Lemmy
• How does Lemmy work (in detail)
• How to find communities on Lemmy
• Mobile Apps for Lemmy
• Lemmy Alternative UIs

Sections that are incomplete and relevant to new users. We have some work in progress for these, and hope to have them out soon:

• Lemmy Privacy and Security
• How to open something in my instance
• How do I block a user, community, or instance

A previously written section that didn't get posted about yet (thank you to Rooki):

• https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/markdown

Future plans include

• Guides for Moderators
  • Set up a new community (best practices for name, sidebar, image, banner, and getting it federated outwards)
  • Moderation Best Practices
• Guides for Admins
  • Information on our infrastructure and setup

https://piefed.social/

Context: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37413606/16581555

Kind of a companion thread to the recent one on [email protected] asking people which community there were missing.

I had a quick look, and most of those seem to be niches that can't be filled until we reach a higher population.

There is still maybe some potential improvement about some less well-known community that other people are interested in and that could some additional activity.

I try to help to make less known communities known with the regular threads on [email protected] (now moving to [email protected] ), but there is probably only a level of detail we have to stop at with 47k monthly active users.

One example is [email protected], it seems reasonable active, and is probably a better compromise than having each game having its own community.

Similar with [email protected], or [email protected]. I posted a thread about Ted Lasso a few days ago, it got some nice comments, but probably not enough to have a full fledged dedicated community.

[email protected]

Hello everyone,

Here is a new community to discuss how to promote the Fediverse to other places.

Its objective is quite different from [email protected], and I am planning to post regularly about Reddit threads mentioning Lemmy and this kind of stuff, which is probably not relevant for !fedigrow.

A few people are tired of hearing about Reddit all day long (which is completely understandable), and that why two separate communities are probably better.

See you there for people who are interested in promoting the Fediverse!

Alongside the various !city/province/state communities I know some have been working to get going, and given the trend of posts lately, I came across a few broader focus communities for civilian activity that may be worth a look.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Another more recent community that brought this to mind was for local organizing:
[email protected]

Whether one wants to contribute to the first few or use them as a model to make their own communities elsewhere is neither here nor there to me, but I think the basic ideas may be solid. Having distributed communities for sharing organizing resources and helping direct people to existing groups to join and coordinate with would be of great use.

Is this allowed? Feel like id be avoiding some rules by doing this on Reddit. I've always loved offtopic comment sections, people seem to lock them as they get interesting.

cross-posted from [email protected]: https://lemmy.world/post/25130981

Warning: Elon Musk now has Huffman bending the knee. Whitepeopletwitter, iselondeadyet and loads of other Elon critical subs have been banned or suspended.

Just a warning, Reddit is no longer a safe place for free speech, it is compromised.

Any time Reddit makes a misstep, some fraction of the users will look for alternatives. Can we bring them to the fediverse? Are there coordinated actions we could take?

Okay, there's a frustrating backstory that I won't bore y'all with, but in this case, my Lemmy-mates have suggested that I should share image-content more slowly, rather than do roundups like this.

To explain: I personally hate withholding content when I have a load of some resource to share. I feel like a fraud, an a-hole, a userer, and all that stuff...

Yet I've been told repeatedly that it's better to just (in my words, 'act like a drone') drip the content, and yes, it's not hard to see the logistical point, but... bah.

I guess, end of the day, I always like to include something interesting about my posts, and it would be harder to do that via the "drip" posting method, which... pretty much circles back to why I post the way I do, which is to aim for roundups.

Bah... Baa-Ram-Ewe!

I am working on rebuilding one of my communities. Originally it was a small fanfiction thing but as I have another fan related domain I decided to make this one a Dark Fiction site and community.

Thing is that Dark Fiction can get... Dark.

So while I am working on the ideas and which software to use for community, I need to figure out what is allowed for rules and discussion.

Obviously moderation would need to be far more lax than say Mastodon.art or anything from Europe. You can't start banning everyone who talks about dark topics if they follow that topic to its darker logical conclusion.

Obviously Harrassment, KYS statements, Actual Racism, and a few other things should be banned. But discussion of how a racists bigoted character might address something shouldn't be.

I live in the US so 1st Amendment is pretty open ended.

Figured I would put this out to discuss cause it is such a disconnect between what most people would generally expect from an instance due to the subject matter.