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The dragon communities

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I'm active on one but not the others, and I have a semblance of a plan.

I miss standupcomedy and evilautistm but I'm not running them.

/r/Cardano: [email protected]

For some reason, very few people interested in cryptocurrency practice what they preach. The people (to me hypocrites) prefer instead to use a closed-source centralized platform to talk about an open-source, decentralized currency. Baffling. The only crypto people that seem to practice what they preach are my monero buds.

/r/ArtisanVideos

It’s a ghost town without my posts.

And so many more that I moderate but refuse to close.

The only community I started that has been successful is EnoughMuskSpam

https://lemmy.ca/c/witchesvspatriarchy

We're going to be emulating the original subreddit, but I missed my witchy coven and recently became a mod

Support groups are something I want to see grow on Lemmy. Anything from abuse, to mental health to chronic illness or addictions. There should also be a way to protect those communities from ableist trolls, a theoretical door so that not just anyone can see the feed. I think it's important to have that door, because there are people who no matter what you say, they will never have empathy or understanding for people going through those challenges. They will always find a way to convince themselves the person isn't worthy of empathy or respect. They will try to do harm, and so they should just be blocked out. I've sadly already encountered a bit of that on Lemmy.

But I will be honest, I don't have a plan of action laid out, I'm just throwing it out there. We saw some major platforms become null and unsafe. We should work to reestablish a safe space for folks dealing with those problems. It's even more important now while we're going through this breath-takingly crappy year. I myself do not have the skills or energy to moderate one of these groups. It would just be good to work toward having more of those here eventually.

Edit: It would also be cool if we could be more thorough about keeping out troll communities, prevent or discourage them from taking root here. For example fakedisordercringe on Reddit was a vile place. The redpill communities were bad too.

[email protected] - I took it over several months ago and have tried to regularly share news that is relevant to developers and hobbyists. I think I've done an okay job, but it's still pretty low in search results when you search "gamedev Lemmy". While posts get a few upvotes, and some comments, almost no one else posts there.

The thing is, I like the Reddit r/gamedev community just fine and still visit it. I just don't trust Reddit as a company. So this is my way of trying to facilitate a healthy option, and follow the adage of "the grass is greener where you water it".

So if you're into video game development and the industry around it, feel free to join!

I'm trying to push a jump in userbase for the tabletop hobby centric communities on LW. I had modded the 40k community for a while, and just took on the tabletop minis community. I post content from blogs I subscribe to and as much of my original content as I can make, but I'd really like to see more growth as an alternative Reddit like space online that isn't as totally captured by the Games Workshop financial ecosystem.

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The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.

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I took over the dead Star Wars community and have tried to shape it as much as possible towards a place online that actually talks about Star Wars rather than infighting and complaining about other peoples' taste of Star Wars.

Other spaces here like the airsoft community are pretty dead, though I try as much as possible to post when I can.

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There is also the historical US Civil War community. I like history in general, and the U.S. Civil War has become a natural fit for me since in real life I often travel to places where I can go to related historical sites.

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The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche

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One of my favourite things on Reddit was movie discussions. I've joined a bunch of movie communities with [email protected] being the most active but I would love if more people were on it!

c/snackexchange

I'm the only poster but don't want to spam too much and look like a scammer.

I miss houseplant content

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I love these kind of memes and try to actively post for a while now. I need to ask my Canadian friends at one point if I can mod that community, the only moderator is absent for a very long time now..

China time, it's all about bad knockoff watches.

Basically every regional community. Think towns and states. Those were some of my favorite communities to engage with

South Africa

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Homelab

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Am I doing it right?

I'm looking forward to our first proper mystery like The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet or Celebrity Number Six. We'll know the Fediverse has 5 years to live max when this becomes the place to post that kind of thing.

Musician fan groups are pretty neat. There's probably not enough people here to recreate that yet. Heck, the biggest music groups are kind of dead.

Another /r PokemonTTRPG would be nice.

Personal finance ones would be nice

[email protected] is great for people missing parents. Need a hug? DIY advice? Someone to be proud of you? There's a whole group of dads poised and ready to help!

[email protected] or more specifically (for me at least) [email protected].

And when I tried to ask for information on some treatment it even earned me a downvote. Probably by someone sorting by scaled and not wanting that in their feed or so.

I tried to make /r/asksciencefiction around the time of the API exodus from reddit. It got a bunch of initial traffic and even got the attention of the mods of the actual subreddit but ultimately I guess they decided to stay on reddit rather than encourage people to go to Lemmy. Anyway, the traffic has slowed to basically nothing and I've kind of lost interest in moderating it, not that it really needs it anyway since the community is like 20 users per month.

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High quality gifs

Imma go through and try to post in every one I have relevant knowledge / experience in...

I need to start up a good one for nurses / healthcare workers again on this server (sh has the right vibe for it too) but getting enough people on board for that is always tough. It's good to have a vent space though because in the nicest way possible 90% of you do not understand hospital ettiquette at ALL (which like, fair, but DAMN).