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 ?
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 look at it as Lemmy isn’t large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.
One that I miss is “r/sex” for discussions and support about sex.
It shows that these are the communities of geeks, doesn’t it
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.
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.
/r/anime, /r/arduino
I really miss r/hfy (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) A sub which writes about humans doing awesome shit in space etc.
Thanks for reminding me about this! I need to continue where I left off with The UWS Alcubierre. Do you have any favorites on there?
Chrysalis stayed with me like no other. It was the reason I signed up for reddit.
I’ll have to check that out.
Just from the top of my head r/BoneAppleTea and r/AmITheAsshole
Both of these are on lemmy.world. Might not be quite as much content yet though.
I miss Warhammer 40k lore and memes.
There’s [email protected]
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
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.
Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still mostly empty and I’m 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
Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still pretty empty and I’m 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 isn’t that the rooms don’t 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!
Oddlysatisfying and cozyplaces for sure!
Scrungycats! How did I forget that one? I was going to say all the very specific cat subs (watercolor cats, tucked in kitties, pointy tailed kittens, Halloween kitty combo, black cats, one orange brain cell, sic, cats are aliens, cat dimension
Also book and bookclub subs, velvet hippos and food and sad dogs
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.
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.
Parenting communities. The culture can be very hit or miss, but that might apply to most communities. I just want somewhere to commiserate with others without any judgment or the usual dramatic bullshit.
I agree. One of the first communities I looked for was a substitute for daddit. Let us know if you find / end up creating something.
I really miss daddit.
Maybe you need to create dadly or kdadbin?
