I mean, the obvious pivot if they are smart is Outside:
People less dickish
Immediate, 3d immersion - ability to pet cute puppies
Can use skills to make money, instead of just updoots
Personally, I feel like the communities you mentioned aren’t particularly “uplifting”. Like, I’m not hating on cute bat pics - but it feels like basing your whole nutritional strategy on sugary breakfast cereal. Eventually you need something with more substance.
On reddit, I liked 3 types of communities:
Hobbies
Lifestyle/advice
In depth/discussion
Hobbies
The hobby comms have almost no activity. I’m into climbing, hiking, motorcycles, diy, and lifting, among other things. A post in one of these communities is almost a special occasion.
Lifestyle/advice
People looking to improve their productivity, social skills, financial situation, dating life, etc. I liked these subs on reddit because I could often contribute some useful advice, and often learned something to improve my own life. On lemmy, the default is that improving anything about your life is impossible, because capitalism or something.
In depth/discussion
Subs like askereddit or truereddit - places where the idea was to discuss a topic and share stories and theories and ideas. On lemmy, these subs consist mostly of tankie propaganda and conspiracy theories.
It’s all in how you use it I suppose, but I’ve found c/superbowl to be very uplifting.
One could just look at the cute pictures, but the gold is in the comments. There is a ton of effort put into supporting wildlife rescue, with emphasis on pointing people to rescues near them, teaching them about what is involved in wildlife care, and how to volunteer and what opportunities are available for people to improve the health and safety of wildlife in their own communities.
After being subscribed for a year there and seeing every post, along with being upset the direction my country was going, I wanted to do something to make my community a better place, so I went to volunteer at my local rescue. I’ve been able to care for hundreds of animals, some I never even knew lived here, I’ve met a bunch of happy and friendly people that show much how much good is left in the world, and I’ve hosted and gone to events to see even more of the same.
My life as a whole is much better now thanks to being on Lemmy and involved with c/superbowl. It’s given me opportunities and joy i never thought I’d have. Only one other person has told me it’s gotten them to volunteer, but others have shared donation links to stories that have particularly touched them, so hopefully that has gotten them financial support for their important work.
I’m now much more invested in my community and neighbors, and more social and outgoing from finding my passion with wildlife. And it all started here by talking with people and sharing pics of neat owls.
I’d love to see even a 0.1% uptick in volunteers for all the folks here that love the bats/opossums/fox/squirrel/rabbit/capybara communities to volunteer or otherwise support their local rescue! There’s a bit of unpleasant stuff, but other than the equivalent of cleaning a litter box or bagging dog poo, most of the icky or gory stuff is handled by the actual rehabbers.
To volunteer, there aren’t any prequalifications other than we need to pass a background check since we have children on site for educational programs, so we mostly just feed baby animals all day and do basic housekeeping. I forget out end total, but we usually do 4000-5000 animals a year, so all the animal lovers here have the opportunity to spend hands on time with them and make some good friends. I wish I would have started sooner. It’s so nice, especially in tough times to spend time with caring, like-minded people and to do something you can see makes a positive change in your community.
I’d also like to check out the Food, Not Bombs near me in the future as well if I can get some health things of my own taken care of. That also sounds like fun and increasingly important as food and housing prices shoot up.
People looking to improve their productivity, social skills, financial situation, dating life, etc. I liked these subs on reddit because I could often contribute some useful advice, and often learned something to improve my own life. On lemmy, the default is that improving anything about your life is impossible, because capitalism or something.
I hear you, this one made me laugh. I guess we have to be the change for this, we really are too small. I can see the bitching on being too big when those communities get enough traction though.
I mean, the obvious pivot if they are smart is Outside:
Personally, I feel like the communities you mentioned aren’t particularly “uplifting”. Like, I’m not hating on cute bat pics - but it feels like basing your whole nutritional strategy on sugary breakfast cereal. Eventually you need something with more substance.
On reddit, I liked 3 types of communities:
Hobbies
The hobby comms have almost no activity. I’m into climbing, hiking, motorcycles, diy, and lifting, among other things. A post in one of these communities is almost a special occasion.
Lifestyle/advice
People looking to improve their productivity, social skills, financial situation, dating life, etc. I liked these subs on reddit because I could often contribute some useful advice, and often learned something to improve my own life. On lemmy, the default is that improving anything about your life is impossible, because capitalism or something.
In depth/discussion
Subs like askereddit or truereddit - places where the idea was to discuss a topic and share stories and theories and ideas. On lemmy, these subs consist mostly of tankie propaganda and conspiracy theories.
It’s all in how you use it I suppose, but I’ve found c/superbowl to be very uplifting.
One could just look at the cute pictures, but the gold is in the comments. There is a ton of effort put into supporting wildlife rescue, with emphasis on pointing people to rescues near them, teaching them about what is involved in wildlife care, and how to volunteer and what opportunities are available for people to improve the health and safety of wildlife in their own communities.
After being subscribed for a year there and seeing every post, along with being upset the direction my country was going, I wanted to do something to make my community a better place, so I went to volunteer at my local rescue. I’ve been able to care for hundreds of animals, some I never even knew lived here, I’ve met a bunch of happy and friendly people that show much how much good is left in the world, and I’ve hosted and gone to events to see even more of the same.
My life as a whole is much better now thanks to being on Lemmy and involved with c/superbowl. It’s given me opportunities and joy i never thought I’d have. Only one other person has told me it’s gotten them to volunteer, but others have shared donation links to stories that have particularly touched them, so hopefully that has gotten them financial support for their important work.
I’m now much more invested in my community and neighbors, and more social and outgoing from finding my passion with wildlife. And it all started here by talking with people and sharing pics of neat owls.
That’s delightful. I never thought of that!
I’d love to see even a 0.1% uptick in volunteers for all the folks here that love the bats/opossums/fox/squirrel/rabbit/capybara communities to volunteer or otherwise support their local rescue! There’s a bit of unpleasant stuff, but other than the equivalent of cleaning a litter box or bagging dog poo, most of the icky or gory stuff is handled by the actual rehabbers.
To volunteer, there aren’t any prequalifications other than we need to pass a background check since we have children on site for educational programs, so we mostly just feed baby animals all day and do basic housekeeping. I forget out end total, but we usually do 4000-5000 animals a year, so all the animal lovers here have the opportunity to spend hands on time with them and make some good friends. I wish I would have started sooner. It’s so nice, especially in tough times to spend time with caring, like-minded people and to do something you can see makes a positive change in your community.
I’d also like to check out the Food, Not Bombs near me in the future as well if I can get some health things of my own taken care of. That also sounds like fun and increasingly important as food and housing prices shoot up.
I hear you, this one made me laugh. I guess we have to be the change for this, we really are too small. I can see the bitching on being too big when those communities get enough traction though.
This got an LOL out of me. But seriously! admins! Ban them folks if you find them annoying! It will make Lemmy more attractive!
Thank you, captain!