missing lemmy servers
| theme | examples of subreddit | domain ideas | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| outdoor | r/outdoors r/ultralight | .camp | |
| productivity | beware the cringe | ||
| travel | r/travel r/solotravel | .travel | |
| all about pets, dogs bunnies cats etc | any pet sub lol especially r/whatswrongwithyourdog | .pet | could be heavy on images, except for the places where you ask for help about care |
| what’s this | r/whatsthissnake/ r/whatisthisfish r/whatsthisrock r/whatsthisbird r/whatsthisplant/ r/whatisthisthing r/whatsthisbug whatsthatbug.com | very heavy on images (tbf tho webp are veeeery little) | |
| patient consumers | r/onebag r/patientgamers r/patientconsumers | .report .review .reviews | |
| european tech workers? | r/cscareerquestioneu | ||
| movies, animated movies, series, animated series | r/gameofthrones r/severance r/bojackhorseman | ||
| anime, manga, manwha, webtoon | r/onepunchman r/onepiece r/towerofgod | .moe | discussion focussed otherwise beware the loli shota fanarts |
| gaming | r/patientgamers r/macgaming r/linuxgaming r/steamdeck | .gg (country) .games | |
| instance for every city? mabe for every region? | could also work as a group or bulletin board shared between mastodon isntances | ||
| European Union hub | r/europe r/2westerneurope4you r/yurop r/europeanfederalists r/askeuropeans r/askeu | .eu | europe.pub is not specific enough and in fact it’s full of useless posts and subs (or btw every european server could host one of these and then have a shared simple landing page to explain which is where) |
| medical advices | would need very hard and specialized moderation |
A Lemmy instance for every single city or region would be cumbersome. Just make these communities on your preferred instance.
I love the idea of an instance for a whole metro area, then each neighborhood could have it’s own community.
Ooo, run by the city/governing body itself? That’d be an interesting way to connect the population.
do you really need whole server for specific communities?
No but forums work (or don’t if not shared enough) because they have a purpose
With too many generalistic instances you get:
- login paralysis not knowing where to sign up
- bad “””marketing””” because it’s harder to differentiate
- kinda flat culture? I mean every generalistic instance right now it’s mostly techies…
- centralization
- lack of curation because no sense of ownership and belonging
youre absolutely right in that there needs to be pressure for a community to exist successfully. users would want to separate the signal of a specific topic from more general forums.
- Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse.
- what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse.
- i know its tech heavy, but so was reddit at instantiation. There are several servers slowly attracting non technical peeps
- centralization is a problem, and I love the idea of spreading the content out, but shits expensive. funding is an ongoing issue across the fediverse.
- most of the modding (curation) failures ive seen come from the creation of a community without the requisite pressure. there just arent enough humans wanting that content or for it to be curated. someone jumped the gun on community creation.
Adding servers is not going to help the signup issue, it will just make it worse
Other similar servers yes, more themed ones i don’t think so…
what marketing?? there is none for the fediverse
Ye that’s a problem. Marketing as in market of mental space not as in ‘‘buy this one’’
someone jumped the gun on community creation
Yep, exactly why i feel hesitant partecipating in some subs :o
You are right that problably there is not enough interest, but not that someone shouldn’t try anyway u.u
i think we need to focus on ‘re-homing’ subreddits across the verse, but its incredibly group-specific. its difficult to communicate to reddit subs and convince users to move largely because of the banhammer reddit has brought down.
