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!

Codandchips,
@Codandchips@lemmy.world avatar

Pop over to !ukcasual There’s a few non-Brits signed up, so you’ll won’t feel left out. Bring some chocolate Hobnobs and we’ll put the kettle on.

Kyoyeou,

Great idea, I’m moving there in one week, so that’s a great idea

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

Pre-emptive welcome!

Kyoyeou,

Thank you very much!

Codandchips,
@Codandchips@lemmy.world avatar

Cool! Then you may want check out !unitedkingdon or !london

OnceADream,

Not to jump right on you lol, but I think there’s a typo in your first link. M vs N maybe?

Codandchips,
@Codandchips@lemmy.world avatar

Ah! Yes, fat fingers on mobile! !unitedkingdom

Bebo,

To keep negative things to a minimum I have subscribed to a cat community, aww community, two dog communities, and have restricted myself to only one technology community. No news communities.

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

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.

Thisfox,

I am missing the catsubs. Calicos, voids, standard issue, whatevers. Feline fanciers posting pics of their purr machines. Doesn’t seem to be a thing here.

Raisin8659,
@Raisin8659@monyet.cc avatar

Try: lemmyverse.net/communities?query=cat

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 :)

ekky43,

I feel ya, a few of my personal favorites when it comes to escaping all the politics are:

!aminals

!itemshop

!nathanwpyle

!raccoons

!witchymemes

And then of course all of the ImaginaryX communities, which I’m sure there exists a register of somewhere, but I just sub as I stumble across them.

Kyoyeou,

Witchymemes looks very fun

Lando_,

Witchy memes has been surprisingly active too. I’d add tumblr and wholesome Yuri but those aren’t nearly as active as witchy memes. Lol

TeaHands,
@TeaHands@lemmy.world avatar

There are some surprisingly active craft communities here that are by definition pretty wholesome, but I guess probably not that interesting if you’re not into the specific hobbies themselves. ymmv. You can find a sticky thread with a ton of them listed here lemmy.world/post/1715954

Kyoyeou,

Just took a look and subscribed to some of those to learn a bit!

Raisin8659, (edited )
@Raisin8659@monyet.cc avatar

The /c I found relaxing include:

Well, there are a lot to list (I only got to ‘c’). One of the best things you can do is, post positive things that make you happy on the /c you follow for your fellow lemmies. The happiness this generates are multiple times worth the posts you read. Try it. Be a positive content relayer / originator yourself.

Kyoyeou,

Thank you, those are great!

geophysicist,

Andfinally is a great find, thanks!

Candelestine,

I’m guessing it has to do with our early-adopter status still. Gotta remember, we’re still the scrappy little underdog that only the weirdos know about. We are all weirdos, you, me, everyone else. Being here is sufficient to make that true. Over time that’ll change, but for now we’re just too unknown still.

So, what you have here is a lot of idealists that disapprove of reddit, a lot of people that got banned from reddit and can’t go back, and a lot of tech bros and excited young people in general.

You can probably see how these different demographics can kinda come together to create what we see around us here, while a lot of the more “normie” content is still mostly back where we came from. (for us reddit refugees anyway)

That said, you can find a small handful of support group communities for things like alcoholics, and the food and cat subs tend to be fairly active and not so much of a constant clickbait downer. The various AskWhatever subs aren’t bad either, though activity is still very light.

We’re still in the very early stages though, a phase that’ll probably last another year or two. Give us time, we don’t even have our software at full functionality yet.

FlyingSquid,
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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."

Papanca,

!lemmybewholesome

Kyoyeou,

Thank you! This is a great community!

Afghaniscran,

I’m not well versed in Lemmy so this might be totally incorrect but I think if you share a link, instead of the c/ you put “!” at the front so people of different instances can open them community on their own instance.

I’m basically just regurgitating what I’ve read and it could be wrong.

Also just for the sake of conversation, one of my favourite wholesome Reddit subs was mum for a minute where people without mother’s would go for motherly support and congratulations. I haven’t seen anything like it here yet.

Kyoyeou,

I’ve changed it, thank you very much!

Afghaniscran,

No problem at all haha. I’m glad it worked tbh. Nothing worse that offering up advice for it to just be wrong.

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

I can’t speak for any of the apps but all these should link to the community through your own instance

/m/ /m/[email protected]

/c/ /c/[email protected]

! !cat

Interestingly, Connect is formatting all of them with an exclamation point instead of the first slash, like !m/

Afghaniscran,

Ah ok, I’m using an android app so that may be why I don’t get a clickable(tappable?) link unless it is an exclamation point to start it.

Thisfox,

I’m on memmy, and the only links that are clickable have no exclamation mark at the start… So hmmm. Not universal?

Afghaniscran,

I guess not. I haven’t got the slightest with these things.

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