The goal of these posts is to identify community gaps that people want filled, but not to arbitrarily create communities to “fill those gaps”. Instead put together teams that can/will work together to sustain their communities (many hands make light work).
To that end, I’m looking for anyone’s input about potential communities (not necessarily to be created anytime soon). Some ideas about potential input (don’t need to answer any or all the questions):
- Is there an inactive community you would like to subscribe and/or post to? (No pressure to try and revive it)
- Do you have an idea for a new community? (It would be helpful if you provide some detail about what the community would be focused on and what sort of posts it would contain)
- Do you have a suggested community name? (Not required, but if you have an idea, feel free to share)
- Do you have a suggested community instance/server? (Some servers have significantly different views on different topics)
- Are you willing to be a community mod? (Not to pressure you, just to provide support, if indicated)
Discussion of a working guide to be added to the sidebar has been suggested. It’s been confirmed that Piefed has the functionality for each community to have its own wiki (and I’ve found the feature, currently playing around with it a bit).
The guide could contain:
- Beginners guide to the fediverse (many exist), perhaps a quick overview (with links to more extensive breakdowns) before jumping into the threadiverse (Thanks ImmortalColeSlaw @lemmy.today)
- On-boarding/quick breakdown of the threadiverse with relevant terms
- Demographics. Know demographic sets: Fedecan 2025, Lemmy.nz 2025, Any others?
- Suggestion of types of posts (ex. opinion requests, question-answer)
- Any other suggestions?
Started Communities:
Suggested Communities - Potential subscribers or active users:
- Mahjong
- missingno @fedia.io
- Deer (images)
- Auster @thebrainbin.org
- Rooftops (pictures of rooftops, rooftop gardens, cozy rooftop spaces)
- Potential subscribers: squirrel @cake.kobel.fyi, vicinus @piefed.zip
- CottageIndustry (users can offer items they make for sale)
- This idea probably needs some additional considerations (spam, payment, fraud, etc.) before actualizing. Some initial commentary here.
- billionsandbillions @piefed.social
Suggested Feeds:
- Hand&Eye (showcase anything made with your hands (only physical, nothing digital))
- Examples: Woodworking, leathercraft, pottery, soap, candles, baskets, clothes, bookbinding, stained glass, glass blowing, bags etc.
- billionsandbillions @piefed.social
Struggling Communities (if you can, throw a post/comment their way):
- !android@lemdro.id
!ecospheres@mander.xyz (instance currently down)Seems mander.xyz might be down permanently :(- !triathlon@lemmy.world
Also, let us know if you have any suggestions about this community or post.
Apologies for not posting this yesterday. I’ve been trying to do these posts one day later each week, to make sure everyone would see them, even if they only show up once a week. Shifting the post date by a day does not help me keep in mind that I need to make the post on a specific day.
Edit: ecospheres lives again: ~~!ecospheres@piefed.zip, https://piefed.zip/c/ecospheres~~
Edit 2: Saving the old posts via piefed.zip did not work. Community recreated at !ecospheres@slrpnk.net
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ok so where should we recreate the ecospheres/jararriums community? lol I hope you all scooped some pond materials into jars to prepare for the relaunch of the community https://ecosphere-guide.pages.dev/
maybe slrpnk.net? although a PieFed instance might be capable of doing some kind of migration?
Hello,
Sorry, catching up after a while. Is mander.xyz gone for good? :-(
It seems to be
Haha :)
I actually think Rimu made a replacement community, but searching, I can’t find it. I might be confusing it with the science and astronomy community replacement he made though.
If I am confused and it hasn’t been created yet, I always advocate for spreading out communities across the threadiverse (so not .world, .ml, or .social).
I don’t see one on piefed.social. piefed.zip could be a decent option. slrpnk.net honestly seems more on-topic, but I’m pretty sure a PieFed instance can clone all the posts? idk how that would look on Lemmy though @Rimu@piefed.social how would this work? Is this a good option here?
If you’re still around @ToadCultist@lemmy.world @ToadCultist@lemmy.ml @ToadCultist@mastodon.social @Salzkrebs@lemmy.world @Salzkrebs@discuss.tchncs.de any thoughts?
I made !space_astronomy@piefed.social but that’s it :)
PieFed can reassign a remote community to be a local one but that relies on having received lots of posts from the original instance in the past. https://piefed.social/c/ecospheres@mander.xyz had no subscribers so it’s empty but https://piefed.zip/c/ecospheres@mander.xyz could work.
To make it happen, log into piefed.zip using a piefed.zip account, then click on 'move to piefed.zip in the ecospheres sidebar:
That sends a request to the piefed.zip admins, they need to click a button and assign your .zip account as the new owner / mod.
will the old posts show in the new community for Lemmy users too? or do only PieFed users see the migrated posts?
(not like we have a better option than this migration feature anyways lol)
From the point of view of instances other than piefed.zip, it’s a new community. When the first person joins it there may be some post backfilling that goes on but I can’t make any promises there. I think PieFed instances would backfill but am really unsure about Lemmy.
It’s not great. Worth trying though. Nothing to lose.
Coding this moving process to work better is not easy and anyway would require the origin instance to be online, which it isn’t in this case. It would also require the origin instance to have code that understood the moving process and how to play it’s part in it, which wouldn’t come to Lemmy anytime soon.
A few months ago I was all keen to make a proper community move system, wrote up a spec and showed it to the Lemmy devs. They responded and had some suggested changes but I ran out of steam, got distracted, etc and it hasn’t progressed beyond there.
still it’s better than nothing, thank you for the feature
but I ran out of steam, got distracted, etc and it hasn’t progressed beyond there.
Relatable T_T
maybe @Vicinus@piefed.zip would like to migrate the community and then add me as a moderator? I have a piefed account too @Die4Ever@retrofed.com which may integrate better
I’ve requested the move (thanks @rimu@piefed.social for the step-by-step guide). I’ll let you know when I hear back and presumably make you mod at that point (I’l try adding both your usernames, Piefed one first though).
Folks are saying we should have a new LateStageCapitalism:
Yeah, I saw the post. To me, it seems what most people are not liking, is stated clearly in the sidebar: “That means any support for any liberal capitalist political party (like the Democrats) is strictly prohibited.”, “4 No imperialism, conservatism, reactionism or Zionism, lessor evil rhetoric.”
Looking at the community (!latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world), it seems they have 4-5 regular posters (1 is the moderator) with some others spattered in. I recognize some of the regular posters, not sure they would move to another community with a different “lens”, but presumably the “splattered posters” could be redirected.
This community seems to be targeted at negative coverage of capitalism (as opposed to pro socialism/anarchism/communism/etc.). The current community description is: “A place for for news, discussion, memes, and links criticizing capitalism and advancing viewpoints that challenge liberal capitalist ideology.” Are you thinking a different target/type of posts (ex. pro organizing) or keeping the anti-capitalist focus?
Edit: some formatting.
