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
  • ex_06@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    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
    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.
      • ex_06@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
          1·
          3 days ago

          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.