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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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I never heard about those subreddits so it is possible they are too niche. Lemmy is still smaller than reddit, which means there is not as much diversity yet. However you can search for these communities.
There are
!worldbuilding@lemmy.world
and !worldjerking@sh.itjust.works
but I have no idea if they are active. So be yourself the change you want to see and engage in these communities or create new ones if they are missing!
Hey! Thanks for the rep for !worldbuilding@lemmy.world . We are, admittedly, not as active as Reddit's equivalent due to Lemmy's fairly niche nature, but more are always welcome.
As we are already hear, do you mind telling us something about !worldbuilding@lemmy.world ? I and probably others too have no idea what the community is about!
Looking at c/worldjerking it was never even posted on. I'd argue that recommending such empty "communities" to Lemmy newbies will only make them leave.
c/worldbuilding is a good recommendation though!
I haven't looked into the communities, just linked what was already there. I'd argue someone who will leave Lemmy for seeing an empty community would have left anyway. Like OP, who probably posted and never came back.
Ex redditors expect Lemmy to work the same way as their former social media: subreddits with narrow focus being great while large, generic subs are to be avoided. That's now how Lemmy operates though - we barely have any topic-focused communities and must rely on more generic places instead.
Redditors who were primarily on niche subreddits already have a good chance to enjoy Lemmy as the activity between such subreddits and more generic Lemmy communities are comparable. But since the expectation is that big generic communities are bad, such visitors will judge by our niche communities - and seeing that most of them are very inactive and some are completely dead, they won't be impressed.
Hey welcome! Sorry for the people acting like they know everything and being a bit rude about it.
So they are right, they don't exist, but I can tell you that there is a demand! Trust me I run some niche communities and there are people here.
The catch is that you will need to lower your expectations. Lemmy for sure follows the 90-9-1 rule. For any community you'll have 90% lurkers, 9% will comment, and only 1% will post. This means a couple of things.
First, that you have to be the change you want to see. If you want a community that's awesome! Lemmy will allow you to grow it! However, for quite a while you may be the only one posting, and it feels awkward. It will pay off eventually though.
Second, to help mitigate that, I would combine your separate communities into one. We dont have the numbers to justify 3 niche ones. 3 niche will be lost forever, but one general could be successful. Then if people think it's time to shard one off to its own community, that's the time to do it. Until then, use tags to help separate the posts.
I wish you luck on your journey! !communitypromo@lemmy.ca is a good place to start, along with !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
The NSFW ones might work better on fedinsfw.app
Please create them and populate them, I look forward to see what you have to share. Maybe I will also share some thoughts once in a while :)
Edit: actually, an NSFW world building community seems to exist already: https://fedinsfw.app/c/worldbuilding
There are very few lemmy communities with enough participants to be anything like reddit. There is or was a NSFW lemmy server (lemmynsfw.com) though, which might be an ok place for your NSFW stuff, if it's still around. I'm not trying to be discouraging of unwelcoming but Lemmy is simply not a bustling metropolis like some of us might wish for. It's more like some random lost souls wandering around in the desert, with a few slightly populated areas here and there. Ask Lemmy, where you are right now, is one of the denser such pockets and there's not much going on here either.
Anyway, welcome to Lemmy. There are things to like about it but it's more like sitting around a campfire with a few other people, than being in a dance club. Join us and toast a few marshmallows.
A note regarding NSFW stuff: fedinsfw.app (or something like that) seems to have largely picked up where lemmynsfw left off
they don't exist.
lemmy is not a copy of reddit.
Lemmy is a copy of reddit, just with less people.
welcome to lemmy where none of those exist and there won't be enough user population to get anything moving for a while.
but hi!