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.
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 miss my guilty pleasure /r/NonCredibleDefense
r/HumansBeingBros is what I miss a lot… or am I missing something…
Intellectually, I think lemmy already has a good grasp on topics…but I do miss the daily video content of r/crazyfuckingvideos, r/publicfreakout, and r/idiotsincars.
L4L (or, R4R). It went private on Reddit and is still dark. Probably not enough users on Lemmy for it to be viable here yet though.
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.
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
that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.
/r/fountainpens
I’ll see myself out.
No, fountain pens are cool.
Have you checked out !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu ?
I fucking love you
prorevenge stories.
Glad that there is already !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world , but there isn’t that much content yet.
But at least it exist 😁
Fighting games. I wasn’t too surprised not to find communities for specific fighting games (other than Guilty Gear which I don’t like) but no general community either?
A non-pornographic femboy and/or femboy discussion community (a pornographic one exists.) I’m still deciding whether I want to go back to Reddit or not and the thing that almost prompted me to go back right then and there was wanting to ask a question about fitting into women’s clothes. This I think might be too niche to be useful on anything other than a big site.
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.
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!
I miss /r/opensuse and an active Java community. There are a few Java communities on several servers, but they are all basically dead.
