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What are the most active LGBTQ communities on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(doesn't matter whether it's lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, or anything else)

I used to visit egg_irl, traa, ftm, mtf, asktransgender, and transpassing all the time, and it really helped me discover and embrace my agender identity. Reddit in general's very good for this. When I saw the equivalents of many popular Reddit communities pop up on the community list of the Lemmyverse with multiple thousand subscribers, I was thinking to myself, "hey, you know, maybe this isn't all that bad, we'll show Reddit we can still survive post-API updates."

But then I tried looking for LGBTQ spaces as warm and cozy as the ones I enjoyed so much back on Reddit (and I wasn't even necessarily looking for 1:1 correspondences)... and to my horror, I was shocked to discover that not a single one of them was very active. It seems that the most active one is at [email protected], but even that only has 500 or so subscribers and can often go days without seeing new posts. It feels really sad compared to the hustle and bustle of what I used to see.

Are we really screwed? Have the clowns on Reddit... won? This is going to sound completely awkward, but I've actually been losing real sleep over this. My household is unfortunately not queer-affirming, which means the internet has been one of the only places in my life I can express my true self. We already lost Twitter, and now we've pretty much all but lost Reddit too.

Mods or fired mods of subs like egg_irl on Reddit: if you're reading this, could you please provide links to Lemmy instances on your sub descriptions or something so that even if people want to leave Reddit, they'll know where to go and won't disperse?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think most of traaaaaa moved to Raddle, but they are not federated, so you'd need a separate account to follow and post there. There are also [email protected] and [email protected].

And you should definitely come check out Blahaj Zone. Lots of lgbt communities over here, including [email protected] . celeste, bounce, celbounceline

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What about egg_irl?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thats definintly the problem with Lemmy right now, for those of us who are used to the constant flow of content that Reddit had. I cant name any specific instance, other than behaw is very welcoming, and you can always be part of the content you want to see.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just looked it up and... lemmy has blocked Beehaw??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

more like beehaw defederated Lemmy.world, because there are concerns about the amount of bots that was flooding lemmy.world at the time.

I expect them to refederate in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I started Real LGBTQ earlier and it's picking up steam, you can come hang out with us. It's pretty peaceful.

In terms of instances, I found lib.lgbt and it seems pretty nice too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I subscribed.

instances

I think I might've been saying "instances" when I've meant "communities" and vice versa.

lib.lgbt

Is the fediverse set up so that I could participate on lib.lgbt on lemmy.world and vice versa?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh. Well, I think mine might be the only game in town on this instance so far. Part of the reason why I made it. Site's still new and growing.

Um, from the way the fediverse works, you can see messages and such from other instances like lib.lgbt, but I am not sure if you can directly post there from one server to another. Your posts get sent to the other servers for viewing like how emails get sent to other servers so your recipient can read them, and that's the most I've been able to make sense of it so far.