cross-posted from: https://literature.cafe/post/462140
I’ve noticed a lot of people complain that niche communities aren’t really all that present here or are difficult to find. Having some consolidated in specific instances is very helpful for discovery as well as spreading the federation around.
I started with literature.cafe (and am sticking with literature.cafe, obviously! That’s not going anywhere!) But last night I was looking at potential domains and was curious about what an art focused lemmy instance could be potentially called. I managed to snag lemmyloves.art for very very cheap, but I came to the realization as the morning came that not only is making an instance only as useful as the people who desire to use it… I currently pay for my own out of pocket and if I’m making another instance alongside this one it needs to be able to last long term.
I have the time, energy and ability to build the instance and manage it with similar principles that literature.cafe currently has (albeit slightly different to address the needs of art) but it’s just a matter of knowing if people will actually be willing to use it and if support for it would be a possibility. I can pay for literature.cafe out of pocket right now no problem, but hosting another instance that I feel very likely may need to be scaled up later on is kind of iffy thing for me to commit to right now. As well as the likelihood of it needing a team as well, knowing if there would be anyone interested in helping moderate as well would be helpful as well
Just generally curious what peoples thoughts are. I think back to the lemmy dev ama and one of the devs saying they wanted a “ravelry” focused instance to spring up lmao
I’ve been enjoying [email protected] , [email protected] and [email protected] here and thinking the same thing! Lemmy works quite well as an image board IMO.
There is also [email protected] and there are a few imaginary network communities starting up.
Awesome thanks!!
Can’t wait for multi-communities to land so that I can have them all in one spot. Could use multiple accounts for that, but I’m lazy.
A bit late - but here is the current list of imaginary communities:
New account, but the imaginarykanto link there doesn’t work for me? I’m confused.
Did I pick the wrong server or something? Rather new to kbin.
OP is using the /c/ link format which does not work in Kbin (which you’re on)
The correct way to link communities cross-everything is like [email protected] (
!imaginarykanto@lemm.ee) yet people still think /c/ is anything but an implementation detail (as they’re accustomed to Reddit’s /r/)I have updated the post with that format of link @[email protected] you should be able to use them all now if ShittyKopper is correct.
This list was made by someone else and copied, I think I understand why they did it that way though - you can’t format those links nicely, the following doesn’t work:
* [Imaginary Kanto](!imaginarykanto@lemm.ee)Looking like this (tries to link to a post or something?:Ahhh that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! Still learning Kbin. It’s more complicated than eg. Mastodon.
Oh wow … I didn’t know these were all out there!!
Ummm … we really need multi-communities!!
Thanks so much!!
You should post this list to the new communities community so more can know about them (even though they may not be so new)!
How new is new? Most of these have been around for two months or so now.
Yea, I figured. I think there should be a kind of “TIL” for communities, as in a place to share newly discovered communities that aren’t popular enough that many would know of them. And at this point I’d be happy to co-opt the new-communities community for that.