as a reddit refugee i mostly use lemmy, but sometimes i go back by a lack of alternative to some subreddit, which one you feel there is a need ?
EDIT1: there are some comments with communities that already exist, check it!
Something I think is genuinely useful about Reddit that I don’t know if Lemmy has replicated yet is the whole genre of “The entire world is here, someone will recognize what you’re talking about” subs. What is this thing, what is this bug, tip of my tongue, tip of my joystick, ask historians, ask mechanics…I’m not sure we’ve established that brain trust here.
OP, please don’t go making empty ghost communities based on the feedback here. That would be worse than no community at all. Communities should be created by topic enthusiasts.
/r/anime, /r/arduino
Lemmy currently lacks the userbase for niche, specific communities, or subregional communities
Fingers crossed that they come eventually.
Sync for reddit will soon be linking to Sync for lemmy
Yep. It’s never an issue to fill a message board with memes and cats, the hard part is filling the niche communities. I hope it gets there.
It’s the lack of really small, niche, but still relatively active communities that is the biggest loss for me (so far). For example, I want to to talk about Brentford FC, a tiny English football club which was only promoted to the Premier League a couple of years ago. But we’re a million miles away from that when there are exactly two communities for general soccer and one community for Liverpool FC, all three with exactly one subscriber.
Any other Bees fans out there? This Flekken guy seems pretty promising, even if I had hopes for Alban Lafont.
I feell like that the problem is just discovery
I agree, the communities are going started but there’s no way to organically find them
I know there is https://browse.feddit.de which is how I found some of the communities I’m subscribed to
I like lemmyverse.net more in terms of UI and usability
Videos
Programming Languages and Compilers. To be clear: The former exists on programming.dev, but there’s a serious lack of activity.
Be the activity you want to see in the world
For me economics, finance, and investing subs are the ones that I got back for. Other than that most of the subs that I liked are mostly here
Dog stuff. I haven’t found any dog communities and I weirdly miss reading about dog grooming.
I think I’ve found most of the communities here that I subscribed to when I left reddit. There are a couple I wish were here or more active.
Daddit was a great group of dads that were supportive and welcoming where we could vent, share memes, and just have general discussions about being a dad. They were really welcoming of moms too, as there’s not always a dad present for the kids.
A community about fountain pens and calligraphy, I loved watching that stuff
Checkout [email protected] :)
Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still mostly empty and I’m not talented enough to contribute lol
I loved looking through all the mossy green nature pics, tiny ecoscapes, mushrooms, frogs, and forest-witch style craftsmanship from people much more creative than myself
I miss /r/opensuse and an active Java community. There are a few Java communities on several servers, but they are all basically dead.
I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:
- prequelmemes
- sequelmemes
- lotrmemes
They were always good for a laugh.
Oh! And highqualitygifs.
I miss my guilty pleasure /r/NonCredibleDefense
