Community Ideas / Places that I subscribed to elsewhere
Community Ideas / Places that I subscribed to elsewhere
This post serves two purposes:
- To discuss possible communities for this instance.
- To archive communities that I was previously subscribed to from reddit.
- My memory is really bad, and it's possible that I could lose my ability to find the kinds of things I'm looking for.
This post is not comprehensive, I just think these particular communities have the most relevance to what I've seen here so far. It is ordered by my personal preference, then by category/subcategory.
Feel free to throw out ideas for consolidation. Since this place is relatively small at the moment, I figure it's better to be more general than specific right now.
(Are tags/labels a thing in lemmy? That could help organize more general communities)
Want
Communities that I really like, and think would be a good fit, though some consolidation might be necessary.
Tech
- technology
- gadgets
- geek
- technews
- electricvehicles (Maybe?)
Development / Administration
- programming
- learnprogramming / askprogramming
- csharp
- dotnet
- linux / linux4noobs
- PowerShell
- gamedev
- webdev
Gaming
- boardgames
- games/gaming
- webgames
- outside (Maybe too specific, but I love this place)
Kind of Want
Communities that I browse, but don't participate in that often.
Tech
- buildapc (Perhaps should be a part of PC Gaming, but there's many reasons to build a PC)
Development / Administration
- typescript
- fsharp
- programmerHumor
- homelab
Meta communities
Communities about communities/instances.
- bestof One for this instance, perhaps)
Loose fit
Communities that may or may not fit this instance, but has some overlap or adjacency, at least.
- movies
- anime
- audiobooks
- personalfinance
- jobs
- cscareerquestions
Passing Interest
Communities that I'm subscribed to, but probably needs some consolidation or renaming.
Tech
- rust (the programming language)
- devops
- amateurradio
Gaming
- gamesociety (Like a book club for games. Perhaps could belong to retro, but I'm not sure)
- gamemusic
Retro
Possible consolidation candidate. RetroGaming, intended for games/consoles out of support/no longer being made.
- RockinTheClassics
Specific Genres
Perhaps too specific, but I'm not sure if this is easily consolidated. Ideas welcome.
- flightsim
Loose fit
Communities that may or may not fit this instance, but has some overlap or adjacency, at least.
- ted
- khan (khan academy)
- swords
- GameDeals
- datasets
- futurology
- justrolledintotheshop (Sort of like IT work, IMO)
Maybe too specific
These are communities I'm subscribed to, but they are usually very specific. If possible, I'd like to consolidate these, but it's tricky.
Tech
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AMD (Probably belongs to buildapc or PC_gaming, but could be a tag, if that's a thing in lemmy)
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Ubiquiti (Tech brand)
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cableManagement (Maybe this and the two below could belong to a homelab type thing, related to buildapc, perhaps)
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cableadvice
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deskCableManagement
Development / Administration
- CollaborateCode
- ADHD_programmers (This is so specific, but I fit into this category. I don't know where I'd find something similar)
- programmerTIL
- learncsharp - (Too specific, learnprogramming should be sufficient)
- darknetplan
- keepournetfree - (Technically could be considered a political issue (Related to net neutrality), but it's very specific. Up to you.)
Frameworks / Engines / Software
There has to be a better consolidated name for this kind of thing.
- angular2
- vulkan
- openGL
- Unity3D
- Unity2d
- unity_tutorials
- godot
- RPGMaker
- electronjs
- vmware
- ansible
- puppet
- azuredevops
Gaming
- linux_gaming (A subset of PC_gaming, perhaps, but it's a good niche, IMO)
- soloboardgaming (A subset of boardgaming, I don't know if lemmy supports tags)
- incremental_games (Perhaps belong to a genre type thing?
- gamernews (Probably unnecessary here, really, if we can tag posts)
- ludology (Probably unnecessary here, really, if we can tag posts)
- playdate (Not sure how this would work here, if it could)
- SteamPlay
Retro
Possible consolidation candidate. RetroGaming, intended for games/consoles out of support/no longer being made.
- dreamcast
- vita
- wiiu
- sega32x
- 3ds
- gameboyAdvance
- xlinkKai (Allows network play for older console games)
Modern
This is another candidate for consolidation. Games/Consoles that are still supported or being made.
- nintendoswitch
Specific Games
Probably too specific to make a community here, but I at least want to document it.
- anotheredenGlobal
- Fallout
- acecombat
- Starcraft
- Minecraft
- ffxiv (Perhaps could make a more general sub like MMO_Games)
- civ
- theeternalwar (About a very specific game of civ3, only here for documentation purposes)
- CivPolitics
- factorio
- simtower
- DissidiaFFOO
- sc2mods
- cityofheroes
- Freespace (Perhaps could inspire a more general community, OpenSource_Games or something)
- Wasteland
Content/Content Creator (?)
Loose fit, these are specific discussion forums I go to about people I follow or sites/content I pay attention to.
- TheWeeklyRoll
- TheCompletionist
- gametheorists
- Phelous
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I’m looking for some of these too. There’s a Ubiquiti community on lemmy.ml, but even following the instructions I can’t seem to find it. I typed [email protected] (copied and pasted from the side bar to make sure it wasn’t a typo) into the search box and it wasn’t found. Have you had any success with the search approach
Yes! I figured it out, and honestly, this is a usability issue with Lemmy.
When you use the search feature as mentioned in another post on this topic, there is a delay before it adds communities to the search list. It does not say that it is still searching, even though it is.
So, from the search page, enter the community name like you mentioned:
[email protected]Hit search, then be a little patient. Some results may return very fast, but community results are noticeably slower, and usually end up at the bottom of the list.Here's an example:
Edit:
I also just noticed this aspect that might make searching for communities a lot easier and more specific. The URL. To access another community from your instance, the URL follows a very distinct pattern that I just discovered. For example, to 'find' and subcribe to that particular community on another instance from your instance, the URL would be:
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]I experimented with this a little bit and discovered that all Lemmy instances allow this pattern:
https://<lemmyInstanceDomain>/c/<communityName>@<targetInstanceDomain>Knowing that will probably make finding communities a lot easier. I kind of wish looking up a particular instance like that was a little more straightfoward. Maybe I can make a feature request?
Edit2:
Okay, the URL thing does not work until the search function completes. But after that, it's available. Maybe that behavior can be changed in the future, though.
Yeah I really really wish the search feature was more robust. I'd love to see a
!nameor evennamequery immediately poll a cache of community names derived from all of the federated instances and show an auto-completed list. This feature appears to exist in the post editor, but nowhere else.
Thank you for this! I just subscribed!