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!
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
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.
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.
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.
I feell like that the problem is just discovery
I agree, the communities are going started but there’s no way to organically find them
I know there is https://browse.feddit.de which is how I found some of the communities I’m subscribed to
I like lemmyverse.net more in terms of UI and usability
Among what the others have mentioned, there is also sub.rehab - some results include communities that are not on Lemmy/Kbin however.
Videos
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.
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.
SUCH a good game. There is a community for RimWorld though! Also tiny, but it does exist. !rimworld@lemmy.world
I hadn’t seen that, thank you! It may be time for another Rim World colony
It’s always time to start a new colony.
I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:
- prequelmemes
- sequelmemes
- lotrmemes
They were always good for a laugh.
Oh! And highqualitygifs.
I miss my guilty pleasure /r/NonCredibleDefense
That exists here now.
Yep, the !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works one seems the most active that I can find.
prorevenge stories.
Glad that there is already !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world , but there isn’t that much content yet.
But at least it exist 😁
I’m into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn’t perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence
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.”
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 want even more animals! Rat, rabbit, mouse, everything!
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
what was r/creepywikipedia? it’s private right now
Sounds interesting
pretty much exactly what it sounds like. people would browse wikipedia and post the creepiest pages they found. like, for example, the aztec death whistle.
