Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company do. And when you go in global it’s “Amercan Politics” “Elon Musk Bad” “Stealing data”, “our world ending”
Recently my brother and I where bored, and I went to show him we moved to lemmy, and said we had memes and all the stuff here. And looking at top memes, it was “complaining about big tech”, and “complaining on windows”.
And, I miss a bit all I had on Reddit not going to lie.
So is there any active community with some positive things anywhere you’d recommend. I just feel like I’m in a bad angry environment.
I’ve got:
Edit: Wow! If you come after, I’d truly, truly invite you to look around in the comments, people here truly changed the way I see Lemmy, its way different now! Way better!
There are some surprisingly active craft communities here that are by definition pretty wholesome, but I guess probably not that interesting if you’re not into the specific hobbies themselves. ymmv. You can find a sticky thread with a ton of them listed here https://lemmy.world/post/1715954
Just took a look and subscribed to some of those to learn a bit!
I feel ya, a few of my personal favorites when it comes to escaping all the politics are:
And then of course all of the ImaginaryX communities, which I’m sure there exists a register of somewhere, but I just sub as I stumble across them.
Witchymemes looks very fun
Witchy memes has been surprisingly active too. I’d add tumblr and wholesome Yuri but those aren’t nearly as active as witchy memes. Lol
At least we don’t have fightporn justiceserved and all that bullshit
The /c I found relaxing include:
Well, there are a lot to list (I only got to ‘c’). One of the best things you can do is, post positive things that make you happy on the /c you follow for your fellow lemmies. The happiness this generates are multiple times worth the posts you read. Try it. Be a positive content relayer / originator yourself.
Thank you, those are great!
Andfinally is a great find, thanks!
I just want some reasonable and active communities. Those “wholesome” based communities often end up feeling really fake.
Yeah, forced wholesomeness can be exhausting too. I just want normal convo where people aren’t cramming their doom shit down your throat.
I replied to an ask lemmy post about how I stay positive with things going to shit, so I said how and people literally were trying to drag me down into doom. Like: “how dare you think this way, this is why you’re wrong and should be feeling more negative.”
Yeah, for most people it’s “God it’s terrible out here. I’d like to do things that make me feel better.” And some folks hear that and go, “yeah you’re SUPPOSED to feel bad because the world is bad and you should actually be MORE angry and upset so that you’ll join my political project.”
Which, like, has some truth to it. Capitalism is bad, true enough.
But if someone is just looking for connection, entertainment, and some good times to carry us through the bad… probably not the best time to recruit them into a political cause. Well, you could, if your political project has a big component of joy to it.
But I get it. I also get burned out just trying to stay informed. And maybe I just wanna talk about the new jazz album I found yesterday (black classical music by Yussuf Dayes) or the new game I’m stoked about (Sea of Stars). Good art would exist under any political system, after all!
I’m not well versed in Lemmy so this might be totally incorrect but I think if you share a link, instead of the c/ you put “!” at the front so people of different instances can open them community on their own instance.
I’m basically just regurgitating what I’ve read and it could be wrong.
Also just for the sake of conversation, one of my favourite wholesome Reddit subs was mum for a minute where people without mother’s would go for motherly support and congratulations. I haven’t seen anything like it here yet.
I can’t speak for any of the apps but all these should link to the community through your own instance
/c//c/wholesomememes@lemmy.ml
Interestingly, Connect is formatting all of them with an exclamation point instead of the first slash, like
!m/Ah ok, I’m using an android app so that may be why I don’t get a clickable(tappable?) link unless it is an exclamation point to start it.
I’m on memmy, and the only links that are clickable have no exclamation mark at the start… So hmmm. Not universal?
I’ve changed it, thank you very much!
No problem at all haha. I’m glad it worked tbh. Nothing worse that offering up advice for it to just be wrong.
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?
Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night, I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need
You gotta browse through the list of communities and go more niche lol. For example, I’m subscribed to stuff like aquariums and plantscaping, travel, NFL, horror movies, awwducational, 2000snostalgia, food, ramen, true crime. Of course local communities, my state and local area for example. I like birds, so birding, why not? I’m watching kaiju movies now, so I subscribed to a kaiju community. Specific games I like. Specific music genres I like, shoegaze for example, but alternativenation’s an easy start. Explain like I’m five (ELI5) and Today I Learned (TIL) are popular and not full of downer stuff. I’m subscribed to stuff even if there are no\few subscribers, because one day, there will be more.
The only thing that sucks is that I’m also subscribed to tech and news, and being that those communities are the most popular, they’re always flooding the top of my feed. Sorting by “hot” helps.
Basically this.
I’m subscribed to frugal, archaeology, science fiction, stuff like that. The communities are still growing so it’s still a dice roll which will grow or die, but I try to help out by finding or making content.
The upside is that your voice doesn’t automatically get lost now.
But Reddit dismembered a lot of old niche forums by stealing their members tho so it’ll take a while to regain a similar amount of old niche knowledge.
Can you give tips re: plantscaping and aquariums? They were some of my favorites on reddit but I’m not sure what they’re called over here.
Hey! There’s !aquariums@lemmy.ca, !aquariums@lemmy.world, and !aquariums@kbin.social. The lemmy world one’s a bit more active, but I don’t care, I just subscribe to them all lol. I haven’t found a substitute for r/PlantedTank or r/Aquascape yet though. Someone’s created !plantedtank@kbin.social, but it’s dead.
Edit: I just realized there’s !reeftank@lemmy.world and !ReefTank@kbin.social if you like saltwater!
Remember you can keyword search communities on lemmyverse.net and find all sorts of cool stuff that way :)
Pop over to !ukcasual@lemmy.world There’s a few non-Brits signed up, so you’ll won’t feel left out. Bring some chocolate Hobnobs and we’ll put the kettle on.
Great idea, I’m moving there in one week, so that’s a great idea
Pre-emptive welcome!
Thank you very much!
Cool! Then you may want check out !unitedkingdon@feddit.uk or !london@feddit.uk
Not to jump right on you lol, but I think there’s a typo in your first link. M vs N maybe?
Ah! Yes, fat fingers on mobile! !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
I am missing the catsubs. Calicos, voids, standard issue, whatevers. Feline fanciers posting pics of their purr machines. Doesn’t seem to be a thing here.
To keep negative things to a minimum I have subscribed to a cat community, aww community, two dog communities, and have restricted myself to only one technology community. No news communities.
If you like art there’s…
also
I’ve curated some other art communities in the side bar at !artistlounge@lemmy.ml including watercolour, art share and one of the photography communities
There are also lots of science and nature communities on mander and beehaw, if you search by ‘all’ in the communities tab at the top, type and just go down a few rabbit holes…nudibranchs, orchids, botany, minerals, geology, animals and pets etc all exist, you just need to start searching
Happy trails :)
edit forgot !awwnverts@lemmy.world and [!natures_patterns@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.ml/c/natures patterns@lemmy.world)
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !abstractphotography@lemmy.ml, !traditional_art@lemmy.world, !artporn@lemm.ee, !artistlounge@lemmy.ml
I’m guessing it has to do with our early-adopter status still. Gotta remember, we’re still the scrappy little underdog that only the weirdos know about. We are all weirdos, you, me, everyone else. Being here is sufficient to make that true. Over time that’ll change, but for now we’re just too unknown still.
So, what you have here is a lot of idealists that disapprove of reddit, a lot of people that got banned from reddit and can’t go back, and a lot of tech bros and excited young people in general.
You can probably see how these different demographics can kinda come together to create what we see around us here, while a lot of the more “normie” content is still mostly back where we came from. (for us reddit refugees anyway)
That said, you can find a small handful of support group communities for things like alcoholics, and the food and cat subs tend to be fairly active and not so much of a constant clickbait downer. The various AskWhatever subs aren’t bad either, though activity is still very light.
We’re still in the very early stages though, a phase that’ll probably last another year or two. Give us time, we don’t even have our software at full functionality yet.
Although I enjoy getting into the trenches with politics here on Lemmy, I’m really happy to have found a community (not on Lemmy) where I can find people like what you’re looking for, just a place where everyone, for the most part anyway, is nice and friendly and supportive. Unfortunately, it won’t do much for you unless you’re a fan of a somewhat obscure American TV show because you wouldn’t get our endless references.
What show?
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
If you’re wondering how flying squids eat and breathe and other science facts, repeat to yourself “It’s just a name; I should really just relax.”
I’ll add !bunnynewsnetwork@lemm.ee
A lot of the picture ones are good.
!pics@lemmy.world - busiest
!analog@lemmy.world - film photography
Somebody mentioned the “imaginary” communities. This is my favourite, if you look in the sidebar you’ll find others: !imaginarywitches@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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