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!
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.
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.
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.
r/HumansBeingBros is what I miss a lot… or am I missing something…
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.
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 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
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/fountainpens
I’ll see myself out.
Have you checked out !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu ?
I fucking love you
No, fountain pens are cool.
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.
I miss /r/opensuse and an active Java community. There are a few Java communities on several servers, but they are all basically dead.
Programming Languages and Compilers. To be clear: The former exists on programming.dev, but there’s a serious lack of activity.
One that I miss is “r/sex” for discussions and support about sex.
I do not miss the circle jerk subs. I admit some were funny, but most were just mean-spirited and ended up becoming worse than whatever it was they set out to make fun of. For example, the books circle jerk sub was full of snobs who snarked at people in the books sub for…gasp… liking popular books.
There’s just something inherently pathetic in using a platform to make fun of others on the same platform. It’s like going to a dance party solely to stand on the side and make fun of the way people dance.
I hope that sort of thing doesn’t catch on here. But the “asshole filter” could creep in if lemmy reaches a high user population.
