Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company do. And when you go in global it’s “Amercan Politics” “Elon Musk Bad” “Stealing data”, “our world ending”
Recently my brother and I where bored, and I went to show him we moved to lemmy, and said we had memes and all the stuff here. And looking at top memes, it was “complaining about big tech”, and “complaining on windows”.
And, I miss a bit all I had on Reddit not going to lie.
So is there any active community with some positive things anywhere you’d recommend. I just feel like I’m in a bad angry environment.
I’ve got:
Edit: Wow! If you come after, I’d truly, truly invite you to look around in the comments, people here truly changed the way I see Lemmy, its way different now! Way better!
I’m guessing it has to do with our early-adopter status still. Gotta remember, we’re still the scrappy little underdog that only the weirdos know about. We are all weirdos, you, me, everyone else. Being here is sufficient to make that true. Over time that’ll change, but for now we’re just too unknown still.
So, what you have here is a lot of idealists that disapprove of reddit, a lot of people that got banned from reddit and can’t go back, and a lot of tech bros and excited young people in general.
You can probably see how these different demographics can kinda come together to create what we see around us here, while a lot of the more “normie” content is still mostly back where we came from. (for us reddit refugees anyway)
That said, you can find a small handful of support group communities for things like alcoholics, and the food and cat subs tend to be fairly active and not so much of a constant clickbait downer. The various AskWhatever subs aren’t bad either, though activity is still very light.
We’re still in the very early stages though, a phase that’ll probably last another year or two. Give us time, we don’t even have our software at full functionality yet.
I’m not well versed in Lemmy so this might be totally incorrect but I think if you share a link, instead of the c/ you put “!” at the front so people of different instances can open them community on their own instance.
I’m basically just regurgitating what I’ve read and it could be wrong.
Also just for the sake of conversation, one of my favourite wholesome Reddit subs was mum for a minute where people without mother’s would go for motherly support and congratulations. I haven’t seen anything like it here yet.
I’ve changed it, thank you very much!
No problem at all haha. I’m glad it worked tbh. Nothing worse that offering up advice for it to just be wrong.
I can’t speak for any of the apps but all these should link to the community through your own instance
Interestingly, Connect is formatting all of them with an exclamation point instead of the first slash, like
!m/Ah ok, I’m using an android app so that may be why I don’t get a clickable(tappable?) link unless it is an exclamation point to start it.
I’m on memmy, and the only links that are clickable have no exclamation mark at the start… So hmmm. Not universal?
I guess not. I haven’t got the slightest with these things.
You gotta browse through the list of communities and go more niche lol. For example, I’m subscribed to stuff like aquariums and plantscaping, travel, NFL, horror movies, awwducational, 2000snostalgia, food, ramen, true crime. Of course local communities, my state and local area for example. I like birds, so birding, why not? I’m watching kaiju movies now, so I subscribed to a kaiju community. Specific games I like. Specific music genres I like, shoegaze for example, but alternativenation’s an easy start. Explain like I’m five (ELI5) and Today I Learned (TIL) are popular and not full of downer stuff. I’m subscribed to stuff even if there are no\few subscribers, because one day, there will be more.
The only thing that sucks is that I’m also subscribed to tech and news, and being that those communities are the most popular, they’re always flooding the top of my feed. Sorting by “hot” helps.
Basically this.
I’m subscribed to frugal, archaeology, science fiction, stuff like that. The communities are still growing so it’s still a dice roll which will grow or die, but I try to help out by finding or making content.
The upside is that your voice doesn’t automatically get lost now.
But Reddit dismembered a lot of old niche forums by stealing their members tho so it’ll take a while to regain a similar amount of old niche knowledge.
If you are a Trekkie, you can join the premier meme community in the fediverse, [email protected]
As a 40 something, I tend to find memes tedious, boring, and unoriginal. Like, to the extent that I actively block every meme community that pops up on my feed.
Except Risa. It’s my favorite community on Lemmy and makes me laugh multiple times per day.
Same here. 90% zero effort memes, not worth it for the 10%.
Seconding this, great original content
I’ve peaked into it, sadly I didn’t get on the Trek community when I was young. My mom bought a huge amount of DVDs of them but told us it was not for me as I was too young to watch with her. I’ve only seen the movies
I don’t know if these were mentioned yet (didn’t check the entire thread), but since i really liked the question, i wanted to add some more:
[email protected] (this will melt your heart, i promise)
Not all of those thank you!
If you find the wholesome, funny lemmy let me know. For months this site has been like 80% porn, Linux autofellatio and making safe spaces for extremists.
I would 100% advise you looking in all the comments and subscribing to stuff. Truly changed my day today, feels like a whole new social media
Thank you! This is a great community!
The /c I found relaxing include:
Well, there are a lot to list (I only got to ‘c’). One of the best things you can do is, post positive things that make you happy on the /c you follow for your fellow lemmies. The happiness this generates are multiple times worth the posts you read. Try it. Be a positive content relayer / originator yourself.
Thank you, those are great!
Andfinally is a great find, thanks!
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night, I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need
I NEED A HERO!!!
I’M HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO
'TIL THE END OF THE NIGHT
Pop over to [email protected] There’s a few non-Brits signed up, so you’ll won’t feel left out. Bring some chocolate Hobnobs and we’ll put the kettle on.
Great idea, I’m moving there in one week, so that’s a great idea
Had to block it due to low effort posts. I’m a huge Trek fan but holy shit the content is baaaaaad.
There are some surprisingly active craft communities here that are by definition pretty wholesome, but I guess probably not that interesting if you’re not into the specific hobbies themselves. ymmv. You can find a sticky thread with a ton of them listed here https://lemmy.world/post/1715954
Just took a look and subscribed to some of those to learn a bit!
If you like art there’s…
also
I’ve curated some other art communities in the side bar at [email protected] including watercolour, art share and one of the photography communities
There are also lots of science and nature communities on mander and beehaw, if you search by ‘all’ in the communities tab at the top, type and just go down a few rabbit holes…nudibranchs, orchids, botany, minerals, geology, animals and pets etc all exist, you just need to start searching
Happy trails :)
edit forgot [email protected] and [email protected]
You also have [email protected]
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Their links work fine. Your links do NOT work at all.
Bad bot!
Can you fix the last couple links? Nature’s patterns isn’t working for me. Also, love this thread. Going to start pulling all these communities into my All feed by clicking on all of them lol.
see the comment below, re trending communities, I replied to myself instead of you
Sorry about the links, they should (hopefully) work now :)
Also I forgot this which may/may not be of use
It lists all the trending communities by activity and subscriber numbers, I’ve found a few interesting places that way :)
To keep negative things to a minimum I have subscribed to a cat community, aww community, two dog communities, and have restricted myself to only one technology community. No news communities.
All of my subscribed lemmy communities have no new content.
Posted from an account that has created zero threads.
No one is obliged to post new content but an account that does not complaining about a lack of new content comes off as very hypocritical.
Why is no one entertaining me?
I participate by commenting. I need to practice being more of an arsehole so I can fit in better here.
