https://fanaticus.social is a whole sports instance, and the instance as a whole definitely passes the "at least a post per week" requirement

Yep, definitely not new, but in the past I have seen people promote not-new communities that nonetheless are tiny and have not been posted here before so I figured it was okay. If you're concerned this sub is losing its purpose you might want to message the mod about changing the rules or something. I do not mind seeing old communities here but my opinion is not the only one that matters, and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca does exist even if it gets far less traffic.

Ooh a PieFed community! Wonder how that'll play with Mbin and Lemmy. Followed. Hope this along with the more mainstream textile hobby communities convince me to actually engage in my textile hobbies more often.

This is exactly why I chose Mbin: to help diversify Threadiverse software.

!knitting@lemmy.world !musicians@lemmy.ml

Personal Knowledge Management and the like!

!pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone (/c/pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone) !obsidianmd@lemmy.world (/c/obsidianmd@lemmy.world) !digitalgarden@lemmy.world (/c/digitalgarden@lemmy.world)

Sounds like a fun way to very, very slowly improve my art skills which capped out at "I got a good grade on my report card for art in middle school!"

Personal Knowledge Management and the like!

!pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone (/c/pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone) !obsidianmd@lemmy.world (/c/obsidianmd@lemmy.world) !digitalgarden@lemmy.world (/c/digitalgarden@lemmy.world)

Genuine question, as a non-Twitter user, what was Twitter-style discussion that held value like? I only ever heard about it being a quick source for certain official outlets to broadcast to others (which does have value but that's not discussion), a place for political fighting and harassment, and about how you weren't able to have nuanced discussions within the small character limit.

I know one advantage of Mastodon is that the character limit is much higher.

I was always annoyed by the "LMAO everyone pathetic nerd stereotype" thing they did on Reddit, only partially because it assumed everyone was a man desperate for sex from a woman. Is this comment an attempt at a joke or a genuine assessment?

I may be a nerd and it is probably fair to say most Fediverse users are. But I'm not a basement-dweller stereotype and I'm not sure where that comes from aside from the tired old Reddit joke about all its users being that exact stereotype.

Also, again, network effects. Go where advice exists on a nice wiki, not where it's a new community and maybe 1 person will answer your comment if you are lucky—a lot of people just want an answer and don't want to deal with the nonresponse and tumbleweeds from a totally new community. It is emotionally easier to toss a post about gaming into the void than it is to approach with an actual problem you have in a relationship or with your finances you need help with, then to check in daily in hope someone answered only to get crickets back, and then repost in another community (or even another site, where you might have to rewrite that post so that you can't just look it up and find out FediverseUser83 posted the same thing as RedditUser92 and is thus probably the same person's two accounts). So these become "why waste the effort and time when you could just go to Reddit and get a quicker response?" to an even higher level than other communities—nonresponse probably hurts more.

For relationship advice specifically, I recall that subreddit being called unrealistic so often that I understand why people might be wary to start a new one here.

I'm actually pretty image-conscious and a lot of this manifests in putting effort into how I dress. I am also incredibly uncomfortable putting pictures of myself (yes, you can talk about fashion without selfies, but the typical "does this look good on me" post requires you post yourself. "Look at this outfit I put together" is easiest to do with your own human body, not searching online for images of each piece of clothing you put on and putting them in one image, especially because some older pieces may not have a perfectly matching online image) on social media like Reddit, let alone the Fediverse which duplicates your post to tons of servers who may or may not respect post deletions. I'd imagine this frustrates the growth of fashion, makeup, and hair communities.

The way it worked on Reddit was that people would post a link to a small audio clip of them singing the song (usually on vocaroo.com) or playing what they remembered of it on an instrument. You could also talk about what happened in the music video, what kind of voices were singing, etc.

If I tell you I can’t remember the name of a tune commonly played at Christmas that has a couple recordings with singing and some just as an instrumental, and on the instrumental there’s a horse whinny and whip crack? You probably know I’m talking about Sleigh Ride.

Epic Games, prompted by a message from the creator of the dating sim Hatoful Boyfriend (in which all the dateable characters are birds), says that they are “looking into” why the creator has not received any royalties for the game in two years.

Headline is misleading because not all the dateable characters are pigeons.

all the news content posted by the mods will be entirely readable on Lemmy.

I don’t even like Forza but came here anyways to say props to you for that, seems like it’ll be a great community for Forza fans