Asklemmy

Research paper reading groups.

AskHistory or something similar.

I'm not seeing enough Linux content, are there any Linux communities on Lemmy?

I miss weird niche creative silly roleplay reddits like

r/vxjunkies

r/enlightenedbirdmen / r/madmudmen

r/earth999

r/nsfwworldbuilding - mostly bees with boobs

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.

r/HobbyDrama

Rocket League, and lots of other games, seem to have stayed on Reddit.

My town. It has an active subreddit but last I checked there were only 2 in the Lemmy community.

Command and conquer, OpenTTD and OpenRCT2. Also Linux audio production

Reddit had quite a few, pretty popular Buddhist subs. There isn't even ONE buddhist sub here with more than 3 active ppl. And those are usually the same person posting. I still use reddit from time to time in my phone browser just to check them out, but maybe one day we'll have more on lemmy.

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what the panel was doing, not the history and use cases of the past (since their use in residential applications is obsolete).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).

!petrats@lemmy.world needs more users - not enough mischief going on here

• 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)

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

Pro Revenge. It's the only reason I watch those TTS Reddit YouTubers

Old School Runescape.

Also, I'm really confused as to why chess doesn't have an active community on Lemmy. Online chess has seen a big boom in recent years, and the demographics of chess players and Lemmy users should have a lot of overlap (i.e. the nerdy IT people), but for some reason the chess community here is more or less dead. Only anarchychess is active, which is great, but I'd love to have an active replacement for r/chess.

Linux Audio

I would really like a community for Volkswagen cars with q&a on mechanical problems, tips etc so I can stop going to reddit

Portland, OR

simracing

There are some communities, but they are not very active.

I'd love to see more healthy food, fitness, weight loss and healthy lifestyle-related communities! Also, I don't think there's a community for 'petite fitness'? Would love to see that as well.

TV, movie and book discussion communities aren't very active around here.

My niche interests.

• Nim-lang (this has some activity here, though I often have federation issues)
• Raylib
• low-poly+untextured polygonal art and vertex colors (both 2D and 3D)

I don't really consider myself an artist or a programmer (I haven't done much), maybe there's a fediverse instance that could work for me but it's probably too niche even just with those communities.

The Pikmin community!

Digital signal processing

Asahi Linux. There is a community at !asahilinux@lemmy.world, but it kinda seems abandoned.

Progression fantasy

Probably not very popular, I miss the culture of r/morbidquestions that was the place to go for most weird topics without much judgment.