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!weeviltime@sh.itjust.works all you have to do is post weevil images and I will love you

Not one community specifically, but I really wish that communities about sports - specifically American football - were more active. I really miss that from the other place.

Mostly my local related communities !india@lemmy.ml but unfortunately it is no longer moderated.

Haven’t seen writingprompts in a while, really liked that one.

When I first stumbled into Lemmy I kinda gravitated to the medical communities, but from day one they've all been pretty dead. Just added a couple more subs now prompted by this thread to see if there was an active one. Here's what I've got in my collection:

!Surgical@lemm.ee

!medicine@lemm.ee

!medicine@lemmy.world

!medicine@mander.xyz

!medical_professionals@midwest.social

!medicine@lemmy.ml

!health@lemmy.world

!healthcareworkers@lemmy.ml

!nurses@lemmy.world

!nursing@lemmy.world

!NursingMatters@kbin.social

!nursingresearch@chirp.social

...sorted all of them by Top: Month, and there are a grand total of maybe 20 posts spread over only three of the communities. One of those three only showed a single post; and a pretty even split on the remaining two. The rest of them were empty. It's spread way too thin: I've only run into a few other medical peeps here on Lemmy - we don't have 12 communities worth of material.

I kinda wish we'd merge them... which I know goes against the grain of how the fediverse is supposed to operate.

!medicine@mander.xyz and !health@lemmy.world were the two most active ones. Mander.xyz seems like a better home for medical talk, but the rules in the sidebar are far too strict for a community this size. !health@lemmy.world seems the best at the moment.

...and I'm 100% part of the problem I'm whining about. Outside of a couple introduction posts and questions for the community, I haven't posted anything there either. I should.

!lightnovels@ani.social

I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X. And light novels are familiar and approachable. Often, people have already seen the anime or seen the manga.

For that matter, even !manga@ani.social could use more activity, and manga is even more approachable than light novels.

I recently started reading a lot of the LNs that are on "catch up" at a website called j-novel club, and it's gotten me to enjoy reading novels more.

Also, the Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel is one of my favorite things I've ever read. It's a pretty long one at 33 volumes, though.

For the conservatives on Lemmy: !conservative2@lemmy.today

!streetwear@lemmy.world 🧢👕👖👟🕺

Short answer: All of them.

My Community Wish List:

Creative Communities

!creativecasserole@lemmy.world - All things creative to share

!collaborativewriting@lemmy.ca - Team up with someone or a group of people and write something together.

!writing_lounge@literature.cafe - A casual space for writers to talk, post, or discuss anything.

Educational/Informative Communities

!coolguides@lemmy.ca

!internetisbeautiful@piefed.social

!mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe

!visualization@lemmy.world

Positive News Communities

!worldinprogress@lemmy.world

!goodnewseveryone@piefed.social

Humor/Funny Communities

!contagiouslaughter@sh.itjust.works

!standupcomedy@lemmy.world - Watch Comedy

!standupshots@lemmy.world - Read Comedy

!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

!the_pack@lemmy.world

!atbge@lemmy.world - a.k.a. Awful Taste But Great Execution

!fakehistoryporn@lemmy.world

!cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

edit: grammar

doctorwho@lemmy.world

I think I did that right?

Liberal gun owners. (Don't know how to link properly.)

https://old.lemmy.world/c/liberalgunowners

Such a great reddit community, or used to be. No toxic right-wing shit, just people showing off their builds and buys, asking questions, getting solid advice with no bullshit, talking laws and legal repercussions, linking timely news, loads of trans people posting. No judging! A new person could come in with the same damned question we'd covered 500 times. No problem! We'd all jump in and help.

Fuck I miss that place. It's dead here. Also, I think there are a few people that go in there solely to downvote. Don't know how to check logs, not interested enough to try, but it looks like assholes are trying to spoil it.

And FFS, NOW is the time left-minded Americans should be getting armed! Blacks, LGBTs and women have been the largest gun buying demographic for several years. They need help and they need a judgement free space to get it.

!hfy@lemmy.world

!hfy@reddthat.com

!hfy@lemm.ee

Scifi short stories are the only reason I go to Reddit anymore.

I want to read more !shittymoviedetails@lemmy.world please!

I am seeing more and more activity lately on !soulslike@lemmy.zip which is awesome.

!DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'm trying to start a mental health support community that's skills based to hopefully help people who can't afford or otherwise access professional therapy.

Here's the wiki (the main page has a quickstart guide if you're looking for some things you can do today even just to maybe help stabilize yourself a little)

Here's a specific list of ways you can get involved with growing this community

I'd like more discussion in stock market or economy communities.

I'd like to see a community for cool stuff happening in NYC.

I'd like to see more stuff for organizing protests and resistance, also for the NYC area.

!babushka_dogs@lemmy.ca

If you have a dog and haven't posted it in a babushka yet.. Why not?

mine, but that is fine because its a niche topic.

!windowmanagers@lemmy.zip

Kind of wish the mass effect community was more active. NGL I kind of ended up hating the subreddit after awhile so no idea what to expect from folks on Lemmy but seems like it'd be better based on other communities I've joined.

!masseffect@lemmy.world

!ukraine@sopuli.xyz

Fuck Russia and their American agents.

DJs! I can't be the only one on Lemmy, but the community is completely dead.

I'd love to see the !gamedev@programming.dev community be more active. As it is, the dev communities here are far more quiet than they were on reddit.

!pinball@lemmy.world

One can dream

Music theory and conlangs. There are several conlang communities - but they're all on life support (or worse).

!albumartporn@lemmy.world

whatis this thing communities, certain online games still has a community on reddit but not lemmy(not the generalized game discussion).

location specific communities, but that doesnt seem to be large here lemmy, and ones that arnt overtaken by conservatives, gatekeeper and astroturfers.

Nascar. I rarely see posts.

I also would like to see less bots reposting reddit. Like the Formula 1 and PC Master Race ones are just reddit posts.