Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven't found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
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Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven't found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
Itโs mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on [email protected] , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more
Well, youโve encouraged me to make a comment! And given me a great community to watch Lemmy grow!
Transphobia free content is what I miss most. Ever since the reddit influx, there's been a huge rise in transphobia
I've removed one of the responses to this comment due to rule #2. It's a fine line and I'm choosing to err on the side of caution and supportiveness.
Individual game subs. Even a niche game usually had just enough of an active community that I could talk about it get help with pretty much anything.
Lemmy didn't seem to attract a lot of other gamers besides the BanVideoGames and GamingCircleJerk people ๐ฎโ๐จ (if they're even gamers at all; certainly not the types they make fun).
The generic "Gaming" and "PC gaming" and even "BoardGames" crowd is here; but they're mostly good for general news, not discussion of specific games. If I want discussion about lore in Baldi's Basics, for example, I ain't getting it in the general communities.
Communities for people with rare disorders or illnesses. And plant communities for specific plant groups, so not plants in general. But most of all, i miss the fact that i could search for very specific content to see what creative ideas other people had on how to do certain things. Or people who shared many years of experience and experimenting.
I think in general we just need more people.. There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.
Certain informative, niche communities like /r/neovim, /r/prequelmemes, and er, um /r/sex. I know there are comparable communities here, but the volume is missing. OTOH, everyone is much friendlier here. And, a smaller user base means our comments don't get buried among thousands. Also, I'm really enjoying new-to-me communities /c/risa.
I miss having large and active subreddits for the sports teams I follow. They were my primary source of news for the teams and games at threads were great.
r/WritingPrompts. The [email protected] community here only has a few posts.
Centralized tv show discussions with episode discussion threads. That hasnโt happened yet :/
I miss communities that I can ask a question to. When I have a problem with a plant, or a legal issue in Japan, or a question about bike brakes... It's nice to have someone to talk to about it that knows more than I do.
Communities for specific consoles, like r/PS3, r/3DS, r/Vita, very helpful for keeping up to date with new plugins and stuff
The ones here either donโt exist, or do but isnโt active at all
Tears of the kingdom content. Gimme those ridiculous builds
Some incredible stuff, and Iโm sure the madlads in hyruleengineering have pushed the limits over the last few monthsโฆ. But two fans and a steering stick are all it really takes.
I miss the idea of /r/outside. A kind of role play in a fun , not too abstract context.
A lot of country- or city-specific subreddits either aren't on here or are quite inactive. To be honest they were mostly cesspits on Reddit so maybe it's no bad thing but you occasionally found useful information there.
Other than that, there were a few subreddits that were good for recipe ideas, like /r/EatCheapAndHealthy. /r/ZeroWaste was good too, on occasion.
In general, non-tech related communities don't seem to have migrated over as much. Most of the subreddits I followed were related to technology in some way and now have pretty active communities on Lemmy.
Doesn't seem like there are many economy/financial/stock focused communities here yet
I donโt miss the exact opposite of a question being posted about five minutes after the preceding post
Yet you answered the opposite of the question being posted... Not sure what to believe
I mostly miss my niche subreddits. If the subreddit only has 20-30 active users, that means 1-2 people hopped to Lemmy who might be interested in it.
surreal memes
You wanna start it? Iโll help you gather content for it and allโฆthat was the only meme sub I ever liked. It spoke to the inner fifth dimensional Accordian Man inside me.
In Terms of subreddits I haven't found bikinibottomtwitter yet, can't even tell if it exists because the search is broken on every android client and the desktop version too.
You can use Lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=bikini+bottom+
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
The sad, basically abandoned subs for tv shows that I never got around to until after they were canceled (shout out to Hello Tomorrow).
Some of the more niche support communities for various reasons, the ones that really only had a dozen or so regs. I hope theyโve found something equivalent to do on the toilet at work.
Legaladvice, askdocs, hiphopheads, and all the covid care communities like masks4all, crboxes, longcovid subreddit
I'm not sure if it's content or just functionality. I really would like lemmy to be more Google-able than it currently is as I still don't have a replacement for " reddit" like I did with, well, Reddit.
Also, something that will probably take a lot longer is generating content for older/dead topics. For example, my wife and I are watching The Sopranos for the first time, and I used to love being able to search for old discussion threads on each episode. Since Lemmy is much newer, discussions about these kinds of things may never happen at all unless I create a thread, and even if I do, it's unlikely that it'll see much discussion as it's no longer relevant or interesting, especially as you get into more niche interests and topics.
Virtual Reality and related subs are pretty small/nonexistent here still.
/r/2007scape, /r/asoiaf, /r/berserk, /r/fibromyalgia, also my big unix multireddit!
I don't watch youtube. My inline video contents mostly come from R... Vow, I miss those; they have some really interesting videos I keep forwarding to people.
Inline video is a thing on Lemmy, dont ask me how I know but it is now possible with certain hosting sites.
I miss the bonsai sub and maybe the gunpla one too. I'm sure there's others, but those two were a big part of my enjoying the other site.
r/antipsychiatry 42,000 members who contributed some articles during 17 years for free quack law book https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p4hbeqa7e74j4lk/AAAl2RN_pmlCDoeg9MXHVe4Ca?dl=0