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I, being someone who works with computers, have had some luck with most of my favorite subs being here already.

Despite that, some of my hobby ones still aren't here. NFL exists, but it's the same as nothing so far. Soccer I couldn't find at first, maybe today it already does? Also, no sign of fantasy football.

I also followed a bunch of History subs, but looks like most people in Lemmy only care about science and technology.

Tell us, what is missing for you?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Welcome everyone! Just as a PSA, here's a cross instance community explorer: https://browse.feddit.de/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is phenomenal, thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

LGBTQ+ support spaces. Lemmy has some, but not enough.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm trying to be the change I want to see in the world https://lemmy.ml/c/hydrohomies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A hero among men

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Missing: r/liberalgunowners, r/libertarian without the hard-right Mises Caucus flavor, r/reloading, r/longrange

Happy to see: r/iowa, r/SocialistRA

Happy to not see: r/politics, r/whitepeopletwitter and their... unique dogpiling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hello fellow [email protected] -- I am currently enjoying a pop for which the west coast just doesn't understand.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to miss the mycology sub, haven't had any luck in finding something similar yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[email protected]

It's one of the biggest communities on Mander.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! <3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit refugee here - just created [email protected], one subreddit I will miss after leaving Reddit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not really. My most visited subs on reddit (fuck spez) were Rimworld, Zomboid, Hunt Showdown and various hobby/profession subs (graphic design, illustration, itap, photography). I'm fairly confident a UX/UI sub will pop up sooner rather than later considering how techie Lemmy's userbase seems to be. Iirc there is a gaming related comm on beehaw, but the odds those three games will be talked about is rather slim.

Edit: also, Swoleacceptance. Recently got back to the gym due to mental health. Was a gym rat years ago but life got in the way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Upvoted for the β€œfuck spez”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Game-specific subreddits (i.e., LegendsofRuneterra, PathofChampions, CustomLoR, MagicArena, leagueoflegends, starcraft, Factorio, LastEpoch, ftlgame). [email protected] looks good.

Franchise-specific subreddits like Batman. [email protected] looks good.

Entertainment (i.e., Showerthoughts, oddlysatisfying, interestingasfuck, DesignDesign, EngineeringPorn, OldSchoolCool).

Niche art (i.e., PixelArt, RetroFuturism, cassettefuturism, TheNightFeeling).

I expect the first two categories (where I commented most) to be the slowest to move here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I too wish the game specific subs migrated. Like Forza subs

  • r/forza
  • r/ForzaHorizon
  • r/ForzaOpenTunes
    GI subs
  • r/Genshin_Impact
  • r/Genshin_Lore
  • r/GenshinImpactTips Destiny subs
  • r/destiny's
  • r/DestinyFashion
  • r/DestinyLore
  • r/DestinyMemes
  • r/DestinyTheGame DRG sub
  • r/DeepRockGalactic

Also miss the anime subs. /c/anime looks like it could grow into r/anime. But others like

  • r/absolutelynotanimeirl
  • r/animeirl
  • r/anime_irl
  • r/Animewallpaper
    don't have lemmy equivalents at the moment.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Cool to hear you play Runeterra! I created /c/[email protected] yesterday. Share any decks you’ve been playing there :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

/c/[email protected] - Real Time Strategy Community we just started :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yes but there's only 7 subscribers and I'm the only post :(

Then again it's a niche community about a fantasy series, I'm not surprised it doesn't have much going on yet.

c/WheelofTime

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Most of my intrests are there and have some activity. Mainly the computerstuff and all. But others exist but aren't active. Take for example kpop, japanese music, horses, the elder scrolls. I wouldn't mind a community for western style RPGs as those are nearly the only games I play, with a few exeptions. General gaming ones seem too general for me, too little I care about.

I am trying to post here, but also don't want to spam a community with only my posts and make it looks like some kind of echo chamber. Feels like a delicate balance on the (nearly) inactive ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I created mine at /c/guitars , I'm not sure if the reddit community at large will join though. I'm hesitant to push it anywhere, it feels like sleazy self promotion. I just wanna talk about my hobbies with other hobbyists, and leave all the corporate greed back at reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi all! I'm a Reddit refugee. This is my first comment here. I think I'm gonna lurk for a while and figure out how this works

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coffee and espresso are both dead here it brings me great sadness.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooooh coffee. Loved that sub when I was getting into the hobby. Start it up!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was quite disappointed to see that most, if not all, subreddits I follow had already shut down on Reddit. I mean, there's r/learnjapanese, r/fitness, r/iwanttolearn, r/piracy, r/nootropics... I could go on and on. I'm actually considering creating a Lemmy community in place of r/chineselanguage, since I see nothing of the sort has been created yet here. However I'm quite hesitant, since I don't really have the time nor interest in moderating a community, so... maybe I'll just wait for someone else to create it instead?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

nahh. my favourite subs are the braindead shitposting ones so

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm missing witchesagainstthe patriarchy, mommit, and quilting. Everything else is here and I'm going to get more familiar this weekend and maybe start some groups

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anyone misses /r/chapotraphouse they have their own version of Lemmy they have built for the last 3 years which should be back to being federated soon. hexbear.net for anyone interested.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It was spun out from the group behind the Discord that was very active when /r/CTH was shut down. I'd say Hexbear is very different from what /r/CTH was back in the day. You could be a succdem and generally feel at home on CTH, Hexbear tends towards full on ML.

(I say this as a commie who has been on hexbear since day 1)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You are definitely correct. I forgot about the discord that was a bridge of sorts. The politics definitely have become more principled hence the shedding of the chapo brand.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not really. It's incredibly frustrating and I've def lost some faith in humanity.

I thought /r/selfhosted would be ready to jump but everyone is like "but there's no users on lemmy" and "you'll split the community" and "we're going to go dark for two days - that will teach them!"

Consequently there's been no support for any single refuge.

Additionally people have set up several communities here with similar names in the past but now mods aren't responding so it's all a bit of a mess.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just hope Lemmy becomes huge so niche things will start popping up, I miss specifc band and game subs like r/KGATLW and r/factorio for example. Though I have also found the searching of communities across instances to be somewhat unreliable. I'm also hoping for some good meme communities to flourish.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate to say it but shitposts and circlejerks are a bit part of my reddit browsing to lighten the mood.

Otherwise, trash like terriblefacebookmemes and idiotsincars was great entertainment for some reason...

I don't know why I am like this.

Edit: to extend on this, seeing a post about some crazy shit play out and then reading everyone react to it is so much fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna miss furry_irl tbh. I didnt post that much tbh, but I liked that community. Fortunately there is a furry instance here.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've started https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/gamedev ([email protected]) and it had a much larger influx of members already than I expected. Very nice :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really want a csharp (C#) one. I know there is one but no one has posted there yet. XD And more game/Indie dev.

And something equivalent to the aww subreddit (does anyone know one?).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They’re heeeeeeeere…

I’m really pleased by how many are starting anew on Lemmy. I giggled like a little kid when I saw HydroHomies was already up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I scanned quickly through the comments here so I may have missed any mentions, if there were any... But my suggestion is: there should be a master/stickied list of equivalent subreddits. So in the future, people can just google [subreddit name] + lemmy (or kbin or beehaw etc etc).

Preferably the same exact subreddit name. Or are those subreddit names owned by Reddit? Can they come after us?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a look at https://browse.feddit.de/

There's a auto-updating list showing even the popularity level - helps a ton finding them!

Current communities are popping up like crazy today and the previous couple days, so it's a bit to keep track of.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a community called New Communities which might be useful for this:

https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities

EDIT, actually Darkfoe's comment has a much more useful link!

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