VultureCulture and BoneCollecting, because I love bones
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chess, linguistics, my country, my profession. Last two aren't even worth clarifying
Communities for identifying random stuff! Rocks, plants, bugs, fossils, that weird thingy in your grandma's kitchen... I love lurking on them because I learn to notice more in my day-to-day life. The downside is that they need more active moderation to weed out wrong or unhelpful comments.
And on a related note, communities for admiring natural stuff, à la mineralporn.
A nudist/naturist sub would be really nice, been missing out on events lately so at least chatting about it would help shake the feeling of isolation.
Also, a space for plural systems would be super appreciated. We wouldn't really know what to say in it but it's really cool meeting other systems and learning about them.
-Finn (fae/she)
Model railroading. Even on Reddit those subs weren't super active, but they at least existed.
Magic the Gathering. There's actually 3 here already, but somehow none of them really scratch the itch to just talk about deckbuilding. And again, the 3 that are here are fairly quiet. Just doesn't seem to be the critical mass needed.
DankChristianMemes. Was just fantastic. Perhaps the best 'neutral' ground I ever saw for Christians & Atheists to laugh at themselves & each other.
I would love some more active Magic The Gathering communities as well. I was pretty disappointed seeing how quiet they are.
DankChristianMemes. Was just fantastic. Perhaps the best 'neutral' ground I ever saw for Christians & Atheists to laugh at themselves & each other.
!dankchristianmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
It's a bit quiet though
I'd love if the Dead by Daylight community was more active here
Parent/Trying for pregnancy/pregnancy.
I found the pregnancy conversations on Reddit (while I was on Reddit is fun) to be much less toxic than on those discussion forums on pregnancy apps.
More women-oriented communities would be great. Skincare, makeup, women's fitness, female health, nail polish, aging. I'd love that.
Yes! Or fiber/needle arts! Im struggling to quit reddit because theres like 6 crochet posts over here T_T
R/raisedbynarcissists for sure.
modernquilts / modernquilting, I used to look in that R and ppl shared progress pictures and finished modern quilts. Was a great source of inspiration. #modernquilts on fedi/pixelfed is quite empty unfortunately
I miss national and regional meme communities such as 2visegrad4u. Cultural and historical context makes the memes flow much better.
A community for the car I own, no matter what it is. (With thousands of active members, of course.)
!cars@lemmy.world ?
No what I mean is specific communities for specific cars. A community for 350Z owners. A community for S2000 owners, a community for Toyota 4Runner owners, etc.
People there post about their specific cars and get some answers. No need for separate communities until the activity grows
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Communities for news, papers, and general conversation around humanities and social sciences. Communities for underground music (e.g., goth music).
Mander.xyz has quite a few communities on sciences, like !science@mander.xyz or !archaeology@mander.xyz or other more focused ones.
All of the individual games I play and not just the general "gaming" subs. Plenty of video game enthusiasts on Lemmy; not enough to geek out over specific games. Or at least... Not the ones I play.
AskHistorians
when lemmy started they said they couldn't come here because they feared associating with MLs would compromise their unbiased ideal. I wonder how that's working out for them
I want lostmedia and unsolvermysteries communities to exist and be more active.
Ah I'd love for unresolvedmysteries to exist in an active form!
Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game
Actually active formuladank community
I really should visit !formuladank@lemmy.world more actively, most of the time the posts in there dont even show up on my feeds I think
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SpeedofLobster! A good lobster always cracked me up.
unfortunately the things I would most like are things I don't currently participate in that I greedly would love to be in the loop about. so pathfinder, star trek online, and champions online.
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Reddit had a few really good and active lifting communities. There were interesting program reviews, sometimes everyone would run super squats together and report on the various effects of drinking a gallon of whole milk per day on the digestive tract. And I could help others join in and start lifting themselves into their best selves, since not many people in my real life circle are interested
Yeah this - this would be really great.
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