Hey, I’m looking for communities about the following topics. If they don’t exist, I’m interested in creating them here. These may or may not be in the same community, I’m just listing the things I’m looking for, happy if there’s any cross-polination.

  • Ukraine war discussion. I do see one Ukraine@lemmy.ml, but it’s unclear if that’s their general Ukrainian discussion (like eg we have here for Canadian discussion), or about the broader war. Seems like the best one so far.
  • Ukrainian footage and map updates
  • Non-Ukrainian discussion on broader defense topics, like procurement, military industrial investments, new platforms or inventions.
  • Combat footage.
  • Something like the /r/CredibleDefense subreddit

If anyone knows any communities like this, or is interesting in starting some with me (name ideas? maybe WarReport?), please let me know. Thank you!

  • AdminWorker@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used to follow subs like that fairly closely. I think most people loyal to ukr will stay on the platform that has continuity (reddit) because it is “life and death” and change could cost too much (credibility, missed crucial status communications, Russian hackers attacking a new and not yet hardened platform, etc.)

    I think the user base that transferred over are mostly devs and techy people who saw the writing on the wall. A couple of the large instances have ~150k active users, so there may be almost 0.25-1million people here, but I have no idea how many are war information inclined.

    The Ukrainian community on lemmy doesn’t seem to be posting things that necessarily support the ukraine war propaganda, so perhaps a different sub would be required for bullet #2.

    I hope someone else responds to correct me. I think that you creating the war community could be a great contribution if you have time to cultivate it!

    • snowcrash@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for taking the time to answer this. As a techy myself, I totally get what you mean about the audiences that have migrated to Reddit and why pro-Ukrainian discussion would focus on continuity.

      Seems like the community would be smaller, but worthwhile setting up and seeing if people take to it. Just gotta think of a proper name, always the hardest bit, as I think mirroring reddit’s separation of communities would lead to over-fragmentation here.