The way Lemmy works right now is you search a community in your instance for it to then get shown, so you need to first discover that community from elsewhere. With that in mind, what are some growing communities that you discovered that could get some more love?
I created !stunfisk@lemmy.ml to mimic r/stunfisk (a competitive pokemon community) on reddit. Id love to see a similar community prosper on lemmy
People knock lemmygrad.ml but I think it’s the best site for people who were nauseated by r/worldnews 🤷
I’m focusing my instance on some niche topics that I find interesting, here’s what we’ve got so far.
FFXIV → https://possumpat.io/c/ffxiv
Bugs → https://possumpat.io/c/bugmenagerie
Esports → https://possumpat.io/c/esports
Gundam → https://possumpat.io/c/gundam
Star Trek → https://possumpat.io/c/startrek
Xenoblade → https://possumpat.io/c/xenoblade
Long Furbies → https://possumpat.io/c/longfurbies
Possums! → https://possumpat.io/c/possums
I created a few shitposting communities that I really miss from reddit.
!rustjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - a place dedicated to making fun of rust programming language (actually mainly its competitors)
!vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny flags
!yurop@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Europe and the EU in a humorous fashion
!truestl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - Elder Scrolls shitposting
!femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - femboy memes
!data_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - funny graphs
!okbuddybaka@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz - stupid anime memes
There isn’t anything going on there at the moment, but I hope in time they can prosper and produce some cool content :)
For some reason, I keep getting 404 errors on these trying to approach them from my instance :/. Hopefully just a temporary bug and not that my instance is defederated from it or something.
It’s probably just that nobody has searched for these communities from your instance yet.
You need to look up, for example, !vexillologyjerk@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz in the search box on your instance and it should sync up in a few seconds.
!femboy_irl@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz works and is already synced from what I can see :>
I got a bunch made and I’m not super sure on the best way to share em, but slightly shameless plug on at least three.
VoidBunnies for pictures of jet black bunnies, this page also being one going under lockdown.
GoldenAgeMinecraft for those that wanna relive or share some of the old Minecraft Nostalgia
And assuming it shows up right, TuckedInKitties, for pictures of kitties all tucked in and all.
I got way more and wouldn’t mind finding some mods to help out in the coming days, but so far that’s just highlighting three.
