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 ?
Lemmy currently lacks the userbase for niche, specific communities, or subregional communities
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.
Fingers crossed that they come eventually.
Sync for reddit will soon be linking to Sync for lemmy
I really miss r/askhistorians
oh i feel this so hard. i hope the mods are collating their best answers and saving the info to somehow bring over here.
You should send the mods a mail to see if they have any Lemmy plans. It’s worth it just to know. Sometimes they don’t have a plan but they do know of a good alt community for you to try out
I believe you can just create your own Magazine (sub) if there isn’t currently one out there! Start that bad boy up!
Yeah this is fine if you have time to moderate a community or don’t care about it being moderated.
that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.
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
Lots of individual game subs
Yeah, sadly I don’t think we’re at the size required to make a vibrant community for all but the biggest games. I miss the Oxygen Not Included sub most.
SUCH a good game. There is a community for RimWorld though! Also tiny, but it does exist. !rimworld@lemmy.world
I hadn’t seen that, thank you! It may be time for another Rim World colony
It’s always time to start a new colony.
Yes, I haven’t found a final fantasy XIV community here and I always have questions I search on Google that link back to reddit.
I bet FFXIV could build a community here. It’s still huge!
There are a few, they are not very big but they exist and I have no idea how active they are.
I think I saw an active one on possumpat.io
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 used lemmyverse.net to find communities from the subs list I had on reddit, but I’ll just have to remember to keep searching after some time has passed since my I won’t have my reddit account for reference
Among what the others have mentioned, there is also sub.rehab - some results include communities that are not on Lemmy/Kbin however.
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
Some of the apps in development like Memmy have search functions
One that I miss is “r/sex” for discussions and support about sex.
r/Sex is a good one, however 90% of questions could be answered by “talk to your partner”. I’ll agree that it is a positive community for general discussion about sex though.
It shows that these are the communities of geeks, doesn’t it
I think there’s a sub like that on the nsfw instance
There are enough communities, there just aren’t enough posts and comments.
Most posts on the communities I see are just links with one or two comments.
r/HumansBeingBros is what I miss a lot… or am I missing something…
I look at it as Lemmy isn’t large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.
I’ll say it for everyone (and myself), NSFW communities. Reddit is still effectively king for that, at least for now.
There is a fair few out there, one main issue is that you can’t even get a list of nsfw communities without being logged in on the instances they’re created in.
IIRC the only instance that patches that check out and is remotely discoverable because of it is lemmynsfw. Whatever communities other instances have are basically hidden to all but the select few who know about them / have an account there and goes to look them up.
I may be in the minority here, but I don’t miss the sexual NSFW content from reddit at all. I was getting tired of seeing OF accounts posting semi-flirtatious things in completely unrelated subs in order to garner attention.
It was totally new to me that people use Reddit for porn. Actually, I only realised that because they were complaining about the supposed lack of these communities on Lemmy. So, you aren’t really speaking for everyone…
come July 1st, i think you’ll find a lot of people making that final push to come over here, try to figure out what the fediverse is, and moderate (or create from whole cloth) the communities they used to have. i certainly don’t have the time nor expertise to moderate any community, but i know lots of folks will come over here. July is gonna be huge.
now fix the bot problem and we’re gonna be ok.
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
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.
Lemmy drama, I want to gossip about other communities and read people fighting for stupid shit.
I was sure there was a community for Lemmy drama but I can’t find it rn
r/frogs and r/orphancrushingmachine
r/orphancrushingmachine
I… What? Do I want to know?
It’s a a send-up of the supposedly “feel-good” stories about people that go above and beyond to make the horrors of some societal problem (usually capitalism) less horrifying for somebody. Like, when a child holds a 48 hr lemonade sale marathon to erase the lunch debt of his/her peers. Yeah, it’s a nice thing to do, but it should NOT be necessary.
The idea is that we would see stories talking about how great this person is for slowing down an orphan crushing machine, without questioning the need for an orphan crushing machine in the first place.
It still is terrible but a different kind of terrible compared to what I was expecting. Thanks!
