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Which subreddits would you most like to see on Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by geomusicmaker@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm genuinely so excited to see some of the more focussed communities blossom on this platform as they have on Reddit over the years. Which are your favourites and which do you think could succeed here?

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[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

SPORTS! The sports subreddits for specific leagues or teams were some of my most visited. I always hated r/NFL though because the mods only really allowed twitter links rather than legit discussion. I'm going to try and be as active as I can in the NFL and NBA communities here, and I might open some for my favorite teams.

This is actually a great opportunity to organically develop communities like r/NBAdiscussion but for other leagues. I always found reddit to be lacking a real football discussion subreddit, and r/NFL had such strict rules you couldn't even talk about relevant topics, such as EA and the NFL exclusive license (any Madden-related post would be auto-removed and told to post on r/Madden), and you also couldn't advertise an NFL discussion based sub anywhere either.

There's got to be an overlap between Lemmy users and sports fans! I can't be the only tech nerd who is interested in the fediverse and also loves American sports!

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, one of the few things I still use reddit for regularly is NHL discussion. (Go Capitals!) I wish we had communities for that here.

The other subreddits I still use regularly are for specific video games. Some of them really have no hope of making it to lemmy, but I think we could probably fit pokemon discussion and trading stuff here.

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I expect a large influx of redditors over the next few months, especially when they kill off old.reddit and the 3rd party apps no longer work. So if you create (if it isn't already created) an NHL and Pokemon community here, I'm sure users will find them and they would become active eventually. We are decently early here in my opinion.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured it had to be coming, but I haven't heard yet about old.reddit being killed. Is that going to happen at the same time as the third-party apps?

[–] bigbox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Getting rid of old.reddit is just a guess of mine. They got rid of i.reddit recently which was the old mobile version, so it seems like a logical next move since a lot of the new reddit features don't work on old.reddit.

There's always a chance they keep old.reddit for a long time, but they have no profit incentive to do so

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