Pretty new to Lemmy as a whole. So when trying to decide where to make an account, I ultimately settled on programing.dev as it’s ab instance that aligns with my interest, but now that I’m getting a little more used to navigating I’m realizing a minor issue. See, obviously I’m a new convert from Reddit as many are, and I don’t expect every subreddit to already be a Lemmy community, but I’ve realized that by picking an instance that is fairly focused in its scope, if I wanted to try and fill in a gap where a subreddit has not been recreated yet I either need to find a way to get it made by someone else or make additional accounts on other instances. So thusly I am curious, is the former an option? In this case I was hoping to make something along the lines of r/ImaginaryKnights, because fantasy knights and armor are pretty cool, but obviously that’s not a programming thing. Any ideas or tips? Hopefully this is a good place to ask.
You’re not really wrong, but this doesn’t address what OP was asking as I understand them. For them to make the community they’re interested in (e.g. Imaginary Knights), they would probably be better off making a new account in a more general instance, as this would be the most straightforward way to do so.
The alternative would be to see if someone else is interested by posting to a remote community (as they’re doing now), and seeing if someone in the remote instance might want to make said community so they don’t have to make multiple accounts. If memory serves, I think there may be specific communities in other instances (and maybe even one here) to request a community’s creation, or if not, I know there are communities for asking if communities exist/help finding them.
E.g. !findacommunity@lemmy.ml
OP, I might recommend looking around for more communities like the above & asking there or maybe searching via Lemmyverse (see sidebar) for whether the community exists on some other instance already.
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Also it appears my memory was working! There may be more named differently, but here’s a few communities where you can request communities.