Where are all the Positive, Wholesome Communities gone, and where are all the hugs, where is my wholesome memes, to help me fight, the politics

Hey, I’ve been looking at what I’m subscribed to on Lemmy and it really grim, and not really what I want from a social media. I’m into tech, but the tech subs talk about evil things companies do, a lot of linux meme and programmer humor, and it’s all cool and all, piracy talking about how it’s bad what certain company do. And when you go in global it’s “Amercan Politics” “Elon Musk Bad” “Stealing data”, “our world ending”

Recently my brother and I where bored, and I went to show him we moved to lemmy, and said we had memes and all the stuff here. And looking at top memes, it was “complaining about big tech”, and “complaining on windows”.

And, I miss a bit all I had on Reddit not going to lie.

So is there any active community with some positive things anywhere you’d recommend. I just feel like I’m in a bad angry environment.

I’ve got:

!wholesome

!wholesomememes

!cat

!rpgmemes

!pixelart

!photography

!cafe

!houseplants

Edit: Wow! If you come after, I’d truly, truly invite you to look around in the comments, people here truly changed the way I see Lemmy, its way different now! Way better!

PseudoSpock,
@PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Wholesome isn’t interesting to a lot of us. I have work, operating systems, programming, news, politics, and being right to worry about. Wholesome is for winter days off while sipping cocoa instead of coffee. We’re not there yet, and even then there is the worry of certain holiday cheer being irritating, and those holiday songs that drill into your head from family and stores. Yikes.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Although I enjoy getting into the trenches with politics here on Lemmy, I’m really happy to have found a community (not on Lemmy) where I can find people like what you’re looking for, just a place where everyone, for the most part anyway, is nice and friendly and supportive. Unfortunately, it won’t do much for you unless you’re a fan of a somewhat obscure American TV show because you wouldn’t get our endless references.

Brekky,

What show?

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Mystery Science Theater 3000.

hitstun, (edited )
@hitstun@fedia.io avatar

If you're wondering how flying squids eat and breathe and other science facts, repeat to yourself "It's just a name; I should really just relax."

oogles,

I really agree. I want to like Lemmy, I really do, but every post is doom filled negativity. It’s like a big negativity circlejerk where people are only ever posting about stuff they hate, like Elon and Twitter/X and Chrome and capitalism. There is very little content that actually celebrates something. Perhaps this is the issue with social media in general, as that has been the vibe I’ve gotten from Twitter and why I’ve never really been much of a user of it. There is definitely a similar thing on Reddit but Reddit is large enough that you can find pockets (usually smaller niche communities) that are more filled with positivity. But maybe Lemmy doesn’t have enough of a critical mass to foster those sorts of communities yet.

Tag365,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

What happened to Lemmy? In June people were saying it was all positive and better than Reddit…

mightyfoolish,

Being niche worked against it’s favor. For example:

Lemmy.ml used to ban “anti-tankie” people while Lemmy.world openly mocks them. The mods on Lemmy seem much more open to disrespect than your average Reddit mods.

EddoWagt,

It certainly was

Tag365,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

How was it better before?

Kyoyeou,

Well i’d invite you like me to look into the comments and subscribe to those places, some look wonderful!

LopensLeftArm,

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

Kyoyeou,

Isn’t there a white knight upon a fiery steed? Late at night, I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need

SnoopyGirl09,

I NEED A HERO!!!

Kyoyeou,

I’M HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO

'TIL THE END OF THE NIGHT

iforgotmyinstance,

If you find the wholesome, funny lemmy let me know. For months this site has been like 80% porn, Linux autofellatio and making safe spaces for extremists.

Kyoyeou,

I would 100% advise you looking in all the comments and subscribing to stuff. Truly changed my day today, feels like a whole new social media

quinacridone, (edited )

If you like art there’s…

!abstractphotography

!collage

!printmaking

also

!traditional_art

!artporn

I’ve curated some other art communities in the side bar at !artistlounge including watercolour, art share and one of the photography communities

There are also lots of science and nature communities on mander and beehaw, if you search by ‘all’ in the communities tab at the top, type and just go down a few rabbit holes…nudibranchs, orchids, botany, minerals, geology, animals and pets etc all exist, you just need to start searching

Happy trails :)

edit forgot !awwnverts and !natures_patterns

VentraSqwal,

Can you fix the last couple links? Nature’s patterns isn’t working for me. Also, love this thread. Going to start pulling all these communities into my All feed by clicking on all of them lol.

quinacridone,

Sorry about the links, they should (hopefully) work now :)

quinacridone,

Also I forgot this which may/may not be of use

!trendingcommunities

It lists all the trending communities by activity and subscriber numbers, I’ve found a few interesting places that way :)

quinacridone,

see the comment below, re trending communities, I replied to myself instead of you

HobbitFoot,

You also have !no_context_art

quinacridone,

Looks like fun, thanks

charonn0,
@charonn0@startrek.website avatar

!risa

iforgotmyinstance,

Had to block it due to low effort posts. I’m a huge Trek fan but holy shit the content is baaaaaad.

corsicanguppy,

a social media

  1. social media [ no singular article, no additional noun]
  2. a social media site/service/something [ article and noun ]

You want to pick a lane.

mojo,

I think the best way to go is to use the everything feed for discovery and to find new communities, then spend most of your time in subscriptions

Hangglide,

All of my subscribed lemmy communities have no new content.

Pons_Aelius,

Posted from an account that has created zero threads.

No one is obliged to post new content but an account that does not complaining about a lack of new content comes off as very hypocritical.

Why is no one entertaining me?

Hangglide,

I participate by commenting. I need to practice being more of an arsehole so I can fit in better here.

Papanca,

I don’t know if these were mentioned yet (didn’t check the entire thread), but since i really liked the question, i wanted to add some more:

!beebutts

!nathanwpyle

!upliftingnews

!dailydoseofcute

!bats (this will melt your heart, i promise)

Kyoyeou,

Not all of those thank you!

MelonYellow,
@MelonYellow@lemmy.ca avatar

You gotta browse through the list of communities and go more niche lol. For example, I’m subscribed to stuff like aquariums and plantscaping, travel, NFL, horror movies, awwducational, 2000snostalgia, food, ramen, true crime. Of course local communities, my state and local area for example. I like birds, so birding, why not? I’m watching kaiju movies now, so I subscribed to a kaiju community. Specific games I like. Specific music genres I like, shoegaze for example, but alternativenation’s an easy start. Explain like I’m five (ELI5) and Today I Learned (TIL) are popular and not full of downer stuff. I’m subscribed to stuff even if there are no\few subscribers, because one day, there will be more.

The only thing that sucks is that I’m also subscribed to tech and news, and being that those communities are the most popular, they’re always flooding the top of my feed. Sorting by “hot” helps.

IonAddis,
@IonAddis@lemmy.world avatar

Basically this.

I’m subscribed to frugal, archaeology, science fiction, stuff like that. The communities are still growing so it’s still a dice roll which will grow or die, but I try to help out by finding or making content.

The upside is that your voice doesn’t automatically get lost now.

But Reddit dismembered a lot of old niche forums by stealing their members tho so it’ll take a while to regain a similar amount of old niche knowledge.

burnso,

Can you give tips re: plantscaping and aquariums? They were some of my favorites on reddit but I’m not sure what they’re called over here.

MelonYellow, (edited )
@MelonYellow@lemmy.ca avatar

Hey! There’s !aquariums, !aquariums, and !aquariums. The lemmy world one’s a bit more active, but I don’t care, I just subscribe to them all lol. I haven’t found a substitute for r/PlantedTank or r/Aquascape yet though. Someone’s created !plantedtank, but it’s dead.

Edit: I just realized there’s !reeftank and !ReefTank if you like saltwater!

thegiddystitcher,
@thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee avatar

Remember you can keyword search communities on lemmyverse.net and find all sorts of cool stuff that way :)

Astroturfed,

The boomers had the whole summer of love, where huge hippies. To quote a famous poet of years gone by “I saw a dead head sticker on a Cadillac, a little voice inside my head said, don’t look back, you can never look back.”

Nothing stays the same. Change is the only constant, and destruction is the beat to which humanity dances.

floppy,
@floppy@rabbitea.rs avatar

I’ll add !bunnynewsnetwork

A lot of the picture ones are good.

!pics - busiest

!analog - film photography

Somebody mentioned the “imaginary” communities. This is my favourite, if you look in the sidebar you’ll find others: !imaginarywitches

Martineski,
@Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

And I will be bringing back my 20+ imaginary subs too once I’m ready to go back to actively posting stuff.

bionicjoey,

If you are a Trekkie, you can join the premier meme community in the fediverse, !risa

GregorGizeh,

Seconding this, great original content

Throbbing_Banjo,

As a 40 something, I tend to find memes tedious, boring, and unoriginal. Like, to the extent that I actively block every meme community that pops up on my feed.

Except Risa. It’s my favorite community on Lemmy and makes me laugh multiple times per day.

Hanabie,
@Hanabie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Same here. 90% zero effort memes, not worth it for the 10%.

amio,

Lemmy memes are pretty bad on average, to be honest. Like... tons of "le outdated le cringe" from the least funny parts of Reddit about 10 years ago, actually about as funny as rage comics (which I think I've seen posted here, actually)

AlolanYoda,

Everyone is agreeing with you on the first point, but I have to agree with you on Risa! It’s my favorite part of the fediverse so far, by far.

persolb,

Rosa memes are actually unique much of the time. And they call back to memorable scenes… so win win.

Kyoyeou,

I’ve peaked into it, sadly I didn’t get on the Trek community when I was young. My mom bought a huge amount of DVDs of them but told us it was not for me as I was too young to watch with her. I’ve only seen the movies

bionicjoey,

I only got into trek within the past year. I just finished TNG last week and have started on DS9. I totally didn’t expect it to suck me in the way it did. TNG is fantastic

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