Thx for this! Much appreciated! Although when I posted in the nostupidquestions one I only got swarmed with exclusively political responses (that didn’t even answer my question) and even one guy being an ass about it, even though I didn’t ask anything political at all, nor did I want that…

Is there anything like that community but less toxic and unhelpful by any chance?

Hmmm, as simply as I can put it: it’s kinda like an image search engine (one that, believe it or not: actually gives you what your looking for, crazy I know), you type whatever your looking for, a bunch of stuff relating to that pops up, you pin and organise that stuff in your profiles boards and groupings or download them locally, and it adapts to you and gives you more relevant stuff that your interested in, super handy for references, trying to quickly find images, and ideas in general, that’s what it’s made for in the first place so it’s pretty popular among creatives for a reason!

I’m not an expert at all but, I’m kinda shocked something like that hasn’t ever been thought of for the fediverse, isn’t it’s whole thing like, everything can talk with everything? Wouldn’t a pinterest alternative be rather straight forward then? Just have the service crawl all of the fediverse for public images, and show them to users looking for them (I don’t think you’d need an insanely massive server or anything to pull that off, the service just links to everything and doesn’t technically store those images itself unless you click download or something), kinda how pinterest itself works I think so, I guess it’s just nobody here cares enough about that to bother with it, not enough artists/creatives around I’m presuming, bummer…

Thanks for the welcome! Appreciate it stranger!

That really sucks, but I guess that’s just how it is these days, thanks for the suggestions anyways. I occasionally hear about friendica, but there’s like, nothing for it outside of its website and years old posts mentioning it, kinda seems dead and desolate looking at it from the outside, only pixelfed sorta seems alive and kicking out of the two.

I’ll share some of my initial ramblings, experiences, complaints, and opinions on here incase you want that, if not then my bad, sorry lol:

That’s totally fine! I don’t see a major problem with that. If you wanna go for it or not it’s up to you, you can always have other mods who’re more familiar and comfortable with heavier topics take charge on some things if need be.

What do you mean exactly? I’m very confused by that lol, somethings probably flying right over my head, but I don’t see why you’d need to disclose any personal information to start something.

Hey there! Yes please, I’d deeply appreciate that! And thank you for the effort of all this, I’ll go check it out right now!

I also heard there’s a community here called “communitypromo” or something that people sometimes refer to, maybe try posting there and see if it helps attract more people to your community? No clue how effective it is though, but can’t hurt to try I guess!

The mental image of all of you in a room, sitting on the ground, arms crossed, and backs turned to each other is killing me 💀💀💀

Oh damn, an old school internet forum? Is that one any good?

I get you, but there just doesn’t seem to be much of a crowd here for anything but politics and tech in the first place, same for the whole of the fediverse tbh, the few people that have tried hosting more “normie” communities here on lemmy always fizzle out, I saw a community where it’s just one person posting by themselves and at most they get a few comments and that’s about it, most of the time they don’t get anything beyond some upvotes and downvotes, things don’t seem to go anywhere here unless your preaching to the existing choir, so not sure how I or you would be any different in that regard, this is the only mental health/safe space community on here that’s even remotely populated and it’s not even close to the amount of the tech and political stuff.

If people here cared about this stuff then I think some of them would’ve already tried all of this, wouldn’t they? Again the few that’ve tried fizzle out very quickly and move on, people here seem generally content with things as they to the detriment of us causals trying to escape the usual social media platforms, not many “normies” here it seems, so no idea how you’d even get a ball rolling when there’s no audience for it here beyond like, maybe 4 people or something at best lol.

It’s a chicken and the egg sorta situation, there’s not many active normal communities here because there’s not many normal people around, and because of that no normal person will want to come here unless they literally have no choice, and so you get an echo chamber of like, 2 topics and not much else, with an audience that’s totally fine with that but puts normies off even more as a result, so how exactly do you break that cycle? Copy and pasting open ended questions somewhere here might not do anything if there’s no one around interested in it in the first place, I’m a nobody so I don’t know much about how to go about this exactly, this stuffs beyond my capabilities, but so far mastodon was the closest we got to something niche turning mainstream, and even then it didn’t really go anywhere for long before people just ended up flocking to bluesky if they even bothered leaving twitter, people already know what they want and want to only stay with that, very difficult to overcome or change that it seems.

Though don’t get me wrong with all this rambling, not against it at all obviously by my presence here alone, I’d love to stick on lemmy and actually use it as a viable alternative to reddit (I’m hoping for it infact). You can go for it if you want, I’m not objecting, just being honest and saying that it’s an uphill battle from my perspective as someone looking at all of this from a causal perspective, so personally I’d rather just be in preexisting groups and communities then play the long “host a community about a very neglected topic and hope people give a damn” game in a niche environment that already has it’s priorities set, don’t think I have that energy in me tbh, also, I feel like it’s a bad idea for a “mentally ill” person to be in a leading/authority role, but that’s just me. I envy those who managed to catch the train and into those private support groups, cause this sucks out here, goddamn…

Hey there, thanks for the reply. Either is fine honestly, or both, whatevers out there these days that doesn’t suck. Though that one is completely dead unfortunately, no activity on it.

There’s barely anything here on lemmy from browsing around for a while tbh, so I’ll take anything else outside of it if possible or if anyone knows anything.

I’m assuming by that last statement that you don’t know anything personally? Or are you implying that there’s legit just nothing out there anymore if you don’t already have your group?