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 ?

EDIT1: there are some comments with communities that already exist, check it!

  • TheWoozy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    16·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • the_kgb@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      oh i feel this so hard. i hope the mods are collating their best answers and saving the info to somehow bring over here.

      • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        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

        • the_kgb@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.

  • Boozilla@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I do not miss the circle jerk subs. I admit some were funny, but most were just mean-spirited and ended up becoming worse than whatever it was they set out to make fun of. For example, the books circle jerk sub was full of snobs who snarked at people in the books sub for…gasp… liking popular books.

    There’s just something inherently pathetic in using a platform to make fun of others on the same platform. It’s like going to a dance party solely to stand on the side and make fun of the way people dance.

    I hope that sort of thing doesn’t catch on here. But the “asshole filter” could creep in if lemmy reaches a high user population.

  • Duchess@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    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

  • williams_482@startrek.website
    2·
    2 years ago

    It’s the lack of really small, niche, but still relatively active communities that is the biggest loss for me (so far). For example, I want to to talk about Brentford FC, a tiny English football club which was only promoted to the Premier League a couple of years ago. But we’re a million miles away from that when there are exactly two communities for general soccer and one community for Liverpool FC, all three with exactly one subscriber.

    Any other Bees fans out there? This Flekken guy seems pretty promising, even if I had hopes for Alban Lafont.

  • pezhore@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:

    • prequelmemes
    • sequelmemes
    • lotrmemes

    They were always good for a laugh.

    Oh! And highqualitygifs.

  • Lexie (They/Them)@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn’t perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence

    • OneDimensionPrinter@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      The whole Grusch saga has reinvigorated my interest in UFO nonsense, so I’ve been posting to !UFOs@lemmy.world but there’s really not much discussion there yet. Happy to take my posting somewhere there would be if you know of one! I loved conspiracy stuff years back as well. The goofier, the better. “Why yes, I would like to read about the family bigfoot started with a hiker on vacation. Surprised it took you so long to ask.”