Your favorite movie, series, or anything else really that you can't find a community here (or maybe it just doesn't exist)
I'm not seeing enough Linux content, are there any Linux communities on Lemmy?
- distressing memes (nonexistent)
- incremental games (dead)
- antimeme/antimemes (dead)
- feedthememes (dead)
- what is this thing (dead)
- jerma985 (dead)
- weird websites (gone)
- diogenes would be proud (gone)
terminology explanations
- nonexistent means there is no community for it
- dead means there is a community with no (or very rarely) new posts
- gone means the lemmy instance for the community has been shut down
!petrats@lemmy.world needs more users - not enough mischief going on here
I've got one! Obscure textile crafts.
There are knitting/crochet communities of course, but all the super niche ones like ply-split braiding or smocking are too rare to warrant a whole community to themselves. On reddit there was a defunct sub called bistitchual, both for all obscure fibercrafts and for combinations of unrelated fibercrafts in one work. I wish we had it here.
Command and conquer, OpenTTD and OpenRCT2. Also Linux audio production
Exists, but not a lot of posts on it.
Ditto for !rct@lemmy.world, though that's apparently for all the RCT series, not just OpenRCT2.
Pinball machines and Arcade games. I can't say I would be the backbone of such a group, but I would enjoy reading the posts from one.
More Star Trek and Linux communities. "I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more [Star Trek and Linux communities]!"
why have just a community when you can have a whole instance
e: oh jeez, the irony flew right over me
My town. It has an active subreddit but last I checked there were only 2 in the Lemmy community.
I find it funny how reddit manages to have active communities for towns, even ones in non-english speaking countries.
For me, it's any community of Tradespeople. I can find relevant manufacturer and adjacent code regulations for modern equipment or building techniques anywhere online. The problem comes from obscure-ancient technology that was discontinued 60+ years ago, the only references to those are on Reddit and very specific forums.
I recently ran into an electrical panel that was built in the 60's and was promptly made illegal (split bus residential panel, no singular main disconnect switch). Even being trained and educated as an Electrical Engineer, it only gave me the ability to understand what the panel was doing, not the history and use cases of the past (since their use in residential applications is obsolete). I was able to find discussions between inspectors and electricians, how things played out with local authorities, and the on going debate of their practicality by actual professors discussing regulations and safety. I will miss these resources if they become unavailable at a future date (the whole enshitification process).
That being said, places with higher than average traffic (like reddit now) tend to give a lot of crappy answers. Lot's of diy'ers thinking their way is best (whether it's code compliant or not), and others who don't care about discussion and only want to say you're doing it wrong because it's not how they would do it (and nets them the highest profit margin on a job). There's lots of owners out there that are probably afraid to ask a question now adays because of the responses (same linux community effect), even though the information around it could be important.
Oh I guess "an active community for fanfiction of this specific TV show or videogame I like to enjoy" would be far too niche, right?
Fine, then I'll say immersive teaching (using dioramas, doing experiments on the field, etc... for teaching classes), and alone / 2-people living lifehacks (in particular in this economy).
Coffee. There are a couple of Lemmy communities but none of them are that active. Reddit had r/coffee and r/espresso that were both fairly active
!coffee@lemmy.world has 8k subscribers...just that there's a lot of lurking. Could go and post, probably enough people there to have conversation. When people do post, they get comments.
!espresso@infosec.pub isn't as big, but same thing -- when people post, it looks like they do get comments.
simracing
There are some communities, but they are not very active.
