Which communities you feel lemmy is lacking?
Which communities you feel lemmy is lacking?
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!
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 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.
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 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 used lemmyverse.net to find communities from the subs list I had on reddit, but I'll just have to remember to keep searching after some time has passed since my I won't have my reddit account for reference
Among what the others have mentioned, there is also sub.rehab - some results include communities that are not on Lemmy/Kbin however.
Fwiw. I searched 2 ways. Searching “ALL” I first searched for the subreddits I subscribed to on Reddit, usually partial word searches.
Then I searched ALL by topic very broadly, like “music”.
For both searches, I joined communities liberally that had a decent amount of subscribers. Figured those with momentum will probably rise up more over time. So far so good!
I know there is https://browse.feddit.de which is how I found some of the communities I'm subscribed to
Some of the apps in development like Memmy have search functions
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. [email protected]
Yes, I haven't found a final fantasy XIV community here and I always have questions I search on Google that link back to reddit.
I bet FFXIV could build a community here. It's still huge!
I think I saw an active one on possumpat.io
There are a few, they are not very big but they exist and I have no idea how active they are.
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.
Shameless plug of my own community, but I created: lemmy.world/c/lemmyafterdark for this purpose, but I wanted to avoid some of the downfalls of the Reddit equivalent.
I think there's a sub like that on the nsfw instance
come July 1st, i think you'll find a lot of people making that final push to come over here, try to figure out what the fediverse is, and moderate (or create from whole cloth) the communities they used to have. i certainly don't have the time nor expertise to moderate any community, but i know lots of folks will come over here. July is gonna be huge.
now fix the bot problem and we're gonna be ok.
r/HumansBeingBros is what I miss a lot... or am I missing something...
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.
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
I do not have the skill or bandwidth to mod a community, but if someone makes creepywikipedia I would absolutely contribute to it!
nosleep replacement
which one ?
I look at it as Lemmy isn't large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.
I'll say it for everyone (and myself), NSFW communities. Reddit is still effectively king for that, at least for now.
There is a fair few out there, one main issue is that you can't even get a list of nsfw communities without being logged in on the instances they're created in.
IIRC the only instance that patches that check out and is remotely discoverable because of it is lemmynsfw. Whatever communities other instances have are basically hidden to all but the select few who know about them / have an account there and goes to look them up.
I may be in the minority here, but I don't miss the sexual NSFW content from reddit at all. I was getting tired of seeing OF accounts posting semi-flirtatious things in completely unrelated subs in order to garner attention.
It was totally new to me that people use Reddit for porn. Actually, I only realised that because they were complaining about the supposed lack of these communities on Lemmy. So, you aren't really speaking for everyone...
Programming Languages and Compilers. To be clear: The former exists on programming.dev, but there's a serious lack of activity.
Be the activity you want to see in the world
Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos
Creepypasta
SCP
Web Novels
Light Novels translation
Anime and Manga
i also world like a comics community.
r/frogs and r/orphancrushingmachine
r/orphancrushingmachine
I... What? Do I want to know?
It's a a send-up of the supposedly "feel-good" stories about people that go above and beyond to make the horrors of some societal problem (usually capitalism) less horrifying for somebody. Like, when a child holds a 48 hr lemonade sale marathon to erase the lunch debt of his/her peers. Yeah, it's a nice thing to do, but it should NOT be necessary.
The idea is that we would see stories talking about how great this person is for slowing down an orphan crushing machine, without questioning the need for an orphan crushing machine in the first place.
Intellectually, I think lemmy already has a good grasp on topics...but I do miss the daily video content of r/crazyfuckingvideos, r/publicfreakout, and r/idiotsincars.
An easier way to link communities. It was so simple on reddit just typing r/sub but here it's more complicated
As far as I can tell, Lemmy server update 0.18 will improve upon relative linking of instances so that a link such as /c/community@lemmyinstance (or the even simpler !community@lemmyinstance) will take everyone to their own instances' version of community@lemmyinstance (see this comment for a more detailed description)
I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:
- prequelmemes
- sequelmemes
- lotrmemes
They were always good for a laugh.
Oh! And highqualitygifs.
There's a general star wars memes community if that helps?
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.
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
Lemmy drama, I want to gossip about other communities and read people fighting for stupid shit.
I was sure there was a community for Lemmy drama but I can’t find it rn
I really miss r/hfy (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) A sub which writes about humans doing awesome shit in space etc.
I think this was one of the very first comms on lemmy.world.
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?
There seems to be a communtiy already, [email protected]
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'm into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn't perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence
If we are going to have one from occultism, we're going to need one for lemmy drama because occultism drama is the tastier of all.
The whole Grusch saga has reinvigorated my interest in UFO nonsense, so I've been posting to [email protected] 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."
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’ll edit this to provide a link at some point, but dadsplain might be what you are looking for.
Dog stuff. I haven't found any dog communities and I weirdly miss reading about dog grooming.
Just a basic one - and you're right, there don't seem to be many!
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
“r/matt”
As a Matt, r/matt was a community for us Matt’s to do what us Matt’s do. I’m a little “homeless” here on Lemmy, but I get by.
You could always change your name to Lemmy?
I miss Warhammer 40k lore and memes.
There's [email protected]
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.
I’m still looking for a true crime / unresolved mysteries community.
The average person won't jump through these hoops just trying to subscribe to a community. I can clearly see them on a list, but still not able to join a bunch from my instance (lemm.ee). Are they too small? Nobody from my instance on them? Whatever.
I think that if there is no one from your instance (which also happens to be my instance) is subscribed to a community on an instance other than your own then you have to search for it in the search bar (using the url or !community@lemmyinstance) before you will be able to interact with it. Lemmy doesn’t synchronize everything between all instances by default, only what is needed to save on resources.
No one on your instance has subscribed to them, but you still can. Just copy the full link of the community on the instance and paste it into your instances search bar and it may lag but give it 30 seconds or so.
The after that everyone on your instance can discover it more easily.
I miss my guilty pleasure /r/NonCredibleDefense
That exists here now.
Yep, the [email protected] one seems the most active that I can find.
Comicbooks.
Does [email protected] work for that?
Kind of, but not exactly what I'm looking for. It looks to be mostly web comic strips, which is great, but I'm looking for more comic book focused community or comics with longer stories.
If anyone is missing curly hair content, I have a community at [email protected].
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 started a scrungycats here only because it's my absolute favorite sub and I couldn't find an instance anywhere else. link
I really miss daddit.
Maybe you need to create dadly or kdadbin?
Great names! 😂
L4L (or, R4R). It went private on Reddit and is still dark. Probably not enough users on Lemmy for it to be viable here yet though.
DepthHub & RBI were good at times.
Although the obvious answer for me is the already niche subs on Reddit for software/TV shows which have just a few hundred people there. There'd be 10 people at absolute max on here and the community would not last.
/r/askscience /r/askmen and the ones for the TV shows I watch.
Second the TV show communities. Always enjoyed the post-episode discussions.
Videos
I didn't see any communities about manga, though I know there is one about anime.
There's [email protected] and https://kbin.social/m/manga
I used to browse /psychedelicrock , /krautrock and /nearprog fairly often as a source for new music and I haven't found anything to replace them yet.
...still waiting for whenthe community to get the ball rolling on Lemmy
Math communities for homework/excercises help.
The various personal finance related subs. There are some communities with similar names, but the depth of experience is lacking.
It’s the off-season right now, but I’m hoping a successor to /r/icecoast gets established by October or November. (East coast skiing and snowboarding.)
Was this more active than r/ski or r/skiing? Those ones rarely got in to my feed.
I don’t know, TBH, I didn’t subscribe to the other two as I preferred the more local focus, but during the season, yeah, I’d frequently see something on the first page or two of posts.
Fighting games. I wasn't too surprised not to find communities for specific fighting games (other than Guilty Gear which I don't like) but no general community either?
A non-pornographic femboy and/or femboy discussion community (a pornographic one exists.) I'm still deciding whether I want to go back to Reddit or not and the thing that almost prompted me to go back right then and there was wanting to ask a question about fitting into women's clothes. This I think might be too niche to be useful on anything other than a big site.
Check out lemmy.blahaj.zone, they seem more likely to have a femboy community. For clothing you might try /c/[email protected]
Specific musician ones. At the moment there's a bunch of Jeff Rosenstock teases happening and right now is when I'd be going to that subreddit to see others discussing them. But it's gone and at the moment there's no replacement.
I also miss the specific opening weekend discussions on r/movies. I think there is a movies community somewhere but I've not seen it pop up on my "active" feed.
You could always make a post on the general music communities and see if other folks want to chat in the comments? I think we just need to embrace making posts about specific things in communities that feel “not specific enough” but that have enough subscribers that at least one or two care about that subtopic of the larger whole.
That's a good point
Oh shit, I've been getting back into listening to Jeff recently.
TV STARSSSSS DONT CARE ABOUT WHOO YOU ARRREEE
r/writingprompts
ramimemes and okbuddychicanary are two i miss
prorevenge stories.
Glad that there is already [email protected] , but there isn't that much content yet.
But at least it exist 😁
It's something people are actually probably happy to get away from, but I liked having celebrity photography and occasional gossip sprinkled into my feed.
Even if I don't care who dates who or why did someone open the door for someone, it's a nice change of mood among all the wars, depression, politics and geeky stuff. I've begun to understand why people actually follow this kind of stuff, it's good escapism.
Also a lot of the Reddit-style depreciation and self-depreciation like suicidebywords and such.
A community about fountain pens and calligraphy, I loved watching that stuff
Checkout [email protected] :)
/r/fountainpens
I'll see myself out.
Have you checked out [email protected] ?
I fucking love you
I want even more animals! Rat, rabbit, mouse, everything!
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.
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.
Edit: they have been added, I'm thrilled r/lockpicking or room porn if they haven't been added.
I’m missing a houseplants community and a jig saw puzzle community
Communities that are focused on a broad topic and full of obscure knowledge. I'm really missing r/ToyotaPickups, r/atming, and r/KnifeMaking right now.
PublicFreakout. I love cringing at the worst people in society
What is this thing
Video Essays / Bread Tube
clash of clans
cricket
todayilearned
India
I think there is a TIL already
Todayilearned is here!
I'm subscribed to 5 different TIL communities over here
destinythegame
Communities about ancient Greek, ancient Greece, and ancient Rome.
Super new here so maybe I haven’t found them yet, but landscaping, hardscaping, pizza, palm enthusiasts…few others I can’t recall the official names for but related to home improvement and diy, etc.
I miss /r/opensuse and an active Java community. There are a few Java communities on several servers, but they are all basically dead.
I'm missing pretty much all the "League of Legends Mains" communities, especially ADCMains and SamiraMains. They were one of my absolute go-to subreddits and the only reason I haven't fully deleted my account yet.
Other then that it's mostly niche things, especially very niche wholesome fem-oriented NSFW subs