Lemmy currently lacks the userbase for niche, specific communities, or subregional communities
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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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.
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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I feell like that the problem is just discovery
I agree, the communities are going started but thereβs 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
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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...
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.
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.
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Lemmy drama, I want to gossip about other communities and read people fighting for stupid shit.
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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.
personally i'm missing all the horror content. there's a nosleep replacement here that's gaining traction but stuff like /r/wtf, /r/oddlyterrifying, /r/creepywikipedia etc are sorely missed right now
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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.
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I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:
- prequelmemes
- sequelmemes
- lotrmemes
They were always good for a laugh.
Oh! And highqualitygifs.
I really miss r/hfy (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) A sub which writes about humans doing awesome shit in space etc.
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Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos
Creepypasta
SCP
Web Novels
Light Novels translation
Anime and Manga
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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.
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
Someone did make goblincore, but itβs still mostly empty and Iβm 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
Just from the top of my head r/BoneAppleTea and r/AmITheAsshole
An easier way to link communities. It was so simple on reddit just typing r/sub but here it's more complicated
As far as I can tell, Lemmy server update 0.18 will improve upon relative linking of instances so that a link such as /c/community@lemmyinstance (or the even simpler !community@lemmyinstance) will take everyone to their own instances' version of community@lemmyinstance (see this comment for a more detailed description)
Dog stuff. I haven't found any dog communities and I weirdly miss reading about dog grooming.
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I'm into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn't perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence
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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.
I'm not sure but, a community for posting scientific articles and discuss about it.
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Someone did make goblincore, but itβs still pretty empty and Iβm not creative enough to meaningfully contribute.
I loved looking through all the happily amateur mossy green nature pics, tiny ecoscapes & terrariums, all the mushrooms, frogs, and foresty crafts & creations from people much more talented than myself.
The issue isnβt that the rooms donβt exist in this house, but more that the smaller niche ones are still just a couple shy people early to the party, waiting for the extroverts to show up lol
/running /bikewrench & /cycling /askscience & /science /autisticwithadhd /onguardforthee /ontario /kingstonontario /ontariogardeners /canadianinvestor /cozyplaces /ifyoulikeblank /notthebeaverton /oddlysatisfying /plantclinic /renovations
Also Select a Set was a very cool little music themed sub that I enjoyed participating in.
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/scrungycats!
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βr/mattβ
As a Matt, r/matt was a community for us Mattβs to do what us Mattβs do. Iβm a little βhomelessβ here on Lemmy, but I get by.
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