I suspect most people aren’t subbing/following communities on Lemmy. So post the community or topic you want to see pop off. And reader(that’s you) if you are interested in that community click the link and follow it.

👏Let’s 👏 start 👏 coordinating 👏 people.

  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    161·
    13 days ago

    !lightnovels@ani.social

    I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X. And light novels are familiar and approachable. Often, people have already seen the anime or seen the manga.

    For that matter, even !manga@ani.social could use more activity, and manga is even more approachable than light novels.

    I recently started reading a lot of the LNs that are on “catch up” at a website called j-novel club, and it’s gotten me to enjoy reading novels more.

    Also, the Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel is one of my favorite things I’ve ever read. It’s a pretty long one at 33 volumes, though.

      • NineSwords@ani.social
        1·
        12 days ago

        No idea why

        Because they are by definition different things. Close in style, sure, but so are YA novels.

        Coming as a reddit refugee I just replicated their definition when creating the community. And I still feel the same way since it’s not a general “novel” community. If there’s a popular demand I’ll loose the restrictions.

        • Landless2029@lemmy.world
          1·
          12 days ago

          Thanks for the response.

          Considering that Lemmy is still growing I’d hope there would be a place to discuss all light novels in one place.

          About a year ago maybe I made a post and it was taken down due to not being a japanese web novel.

          Regardless of style “web novel” and “light novel” aren’t specific to a source country like manga and manwha are. So as a community restricting !lightnovels@ani.social to just japanese ones didn’t make sense. You could’ve done jnovels instead.

          You’re doing it based off of writing style. You can make that call as a moderator but I just let it go and don’t discuss my reading with anyone still after leaving reddit.

          One day maybe enough people break the rule in a month to open it up.

    • NineSwords@ani.social
      1·
      12 days ago

      I think we need to get away from the short format brain rot media that is so popular today, like TikTok and Twitter/X.

      As Myne in the sidebar states: “Y’all better start reading more books!” :)