Ideally your answer is a sub that you are currently posting to but few others are posting to.
I tried to make /r/asksciencefiction around the time of the API exodus from reddit. It got a bunch of initial traffic and even got the attention of the mods of the actual subreddit but ultimately I guess they decided to stay on reddit rather than encourage people to go to Lemmy. Anyway, the traffic has slowed to basically nothing and I’ve kind of lost interest in moderating it, not that it really needs it anyway since the community is like 20 users per month.
Would it make sense to consolidate with !sciencefiction@lemmy.world ?
asksciencefiction is about fantasy as much as it is about sci-fi, and about other fiction as well. it’s for silly questions like “could Shaggy & Scooby have taken the ring to Mordor?” i would think that would make it a bad fit, but who knows.
After taking a look at that community, not quite since it’s not strictly limited to the science fiction genre. Asksciencefiction is kind of a weird amalgam of subreddits which makes it hard to categorize. Think about the format of the Q&A sub /r/askscience and then tack on /r/fiction. It was more of a roleplaying subreddit than anything. Sometimes there’d be serious discussions, but the best replies were always from people who were roleplaying as people living in the fictional universe.
There is an on-going discussion on !fedigrow@lemm.ee about how we should maybe aim for more generalist communities rather than niche ones.
Maybe the AskScienceFiction niche could fit into the general sciencefiction community. Up to you
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The dragon communities
!dragons@pawb.social
!dragonswithjobs@pawb.social
!imaginarydragons@leminal.space
!wingsoffire@lemmy.worldI’m active on one but not the others, and I have a semblance of a plan.
i used to think dragons were cool before Drag came along
Still are, that dumbstick doesn’t change that
I miss standupcomedy and evilautistm but I’m not running them.
Am I doing it right?
EDC, I want to talk about cool gear.
Personal finance ones would be nice
Which ones are you in? I like personal finance and am in several on Reddit, but none here.
!personalfinancecanada@lemmy.ca as your on lemmy.ca?
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and subbed.
!rail@feddit.uk seems more active
There’s also !rail@feddit.uk
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckyournelsonlamp
A fediverse successor to Tumblr’s FuckYourNoguchiTable blog and Reddit’s r/FuckYourEamesLounge. Interior design appreciation, (light) shitposting, and discussion beyond basic MCM staples.
Just subscribed
Thanks! I’d like to post more regularly on my part but just dropping images from mobile feels lazy and I haven’t had much time in front of my desktop recently. Hope to see you there!
!fuckyournelsonlamp@lemmy.world – Instance agnostic link.
!chronicillness@lemmy.world or more specifically (for me at least) !myalgicencephalomyelitis@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
And when I tried to ask for information on some treatment it even earned me a downvote. Probably by someone sorting by scaled and not wanting that in their feed or so.
This is a really good idea. Subtribe in my family has a rare autoimmune disease (relapsing polychondritis), for which the only treatment is a drug (Methotrexate) which has lymphoma as a side effect. It’s a fairly rare disease, with only a small percent of sufferers. I should start a community for it.
Since methotrexate is the only tool allopathic doctors have, and since homeopathy is a snake oil industry, there’s a lot of “word of mouth” suggestions from people who’ve had success from a variety of approaches, some of which work for some people, others not. Low dose Naltrexone (off label), Plaquenil, and avoiding food allergies are things doctors aren’t going to recommend because there are few scientific studies in them - because, again, nobody fucking studies the rare diseases.
Communities are really valuable for sufferers of more rare diseases. I think many people casually downvote such off-label approaches because they think it’s some sort of anti-science, anti-allopathic medicine wackadoo, when in fact the diseases are so uncommon they’re practically unresearched and certainly no pharmaceutical companies are researching cures.
Yes! Lots of folks with chronic illness find themselves in a limbo where they can’t get decent treatment or often precise diagnosis. Crowdsourcing relief has mixed results, but in such circumstances reports of rigorous trial and error with various approaches is sometimes helpful in the absence of the sort of care a lot of Americans now can’t even hope for. I know this because I’ve been there. CIDP here since 2010.
Crowdsourcing has been a blessing in my journey to relieve chronic migraine. There’s a lot of misunderstanding and bad info out there, but at least it has given me options. Doctors have all fixated on blood pressure medication and abortives, which don’t work on me in the former, and the latter leaves me incapacitated when they do work.
Going down the rabbit hole of online discussions helped me figure out I have histamine intolerance, which I was able to verify scientifically once I knew how to investigate it.
What is CIDP?
Crowdsourcing medical assistance is entirely valid, as long as you’re also seeking professional help. Medicine just doesn’t have all the answers, and sometimes “this works for me” is the best advice you can get when there’s nowhere else to turn.
I’m reminded of that old joke:
What do you someone who graduated bottom of their class at medical school?
“Doctor.”
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy.
Agreed.
Sucks. Sorry to hear that.
!tomswifty@midwest.social for Tom Swifty jokes
A way to softly encrypt/obfuscate your handwriting. Fun to get into with friends!
this is so cool, you will definitely see me there either every day or never or maybe once in a while
Lol, I’ll take it
Ahhh nice! I didn’t realize this one was here too not just on reddit 😁
Well it wasn’t until a couple weeks ago 😬 Enjoy!
Oh man, this brings me back. I remember passing notes in middle school in bootleg Elian script - I’m in my 30s now.
It’s by far my favorite cipher because it’s easy to read, it’s easy to modify if someone else learns to read it, and you get a ton of artistic license with the way your letters look so long as they adhere to the basic framework. Really well formed Elian is unrecognizable as script to someone who isn’t looking for it.
Thanks for this, subscribed!
Hey hey, awesome! Yeah it’s super fun. And if you’re good at it (I’m not) it can be super creative!
My buddies and I, and likewise those in this community, try to stick to the standard alphabet arrangement, so we can all read each other’s stuff. Though we do dabble in other puzzlery, using basic Elian as a layer of obfuscation.
Welcome and enjoy!
I miss the random passion of /r/CFB. It was great because all of the toxicity normally in sports was gone, and everyone was just enjoying the game and news about their teams. In the off-season people would concoct the most convoluted, elaborate shitpost for why their team is the best. I think my favorite essay was once about how the Alabama Crimson Tide’s greatest enemy wasn’t any other team, but the full moon, and went into a heavy statistical data dive to demonstrate how the teams few losses (they were seriously on an unprecedented run for over a decade) all came on or around the full moon. That and the team are the Tide, so of course it’s the moon.
That type of energy focuses on college football is lacking in Lemmy, and I haven’t found something similar here yet
I miss /soccer and /MLS. The /soccer community was HUGELY international, so I got to learn all about leagues around the world.
Agreed. Sports is one of the last things that tempt me to log back into reddit. The sport I follow has a community here and a little bit of activity, but not enough to keep game threads active.
