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
Lots of individual game subs
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 think I saw an active one on possumpat.io
I bet FFXIV could build a community here. It’s still huge!
One that I miss is “r/sex” for discussions and support about sex.
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.
It shows that these are the communities of geeks, doesn’t it
I think there’s a sub like that on the nsfw instance
I’ll say it for everyone (and myself), NSFW communities. Reddit is still effectively king for that, at least for now.
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.
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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
Some of the apps in development like Memmy have search functions
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
Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos
Creepypasta
SCP
Web Novels
Light Novels translation
Anime and Manga
i also you like a comics community.
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
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.
r/frogs and r/orphancrushingmachine
r/orphancrushingmachine
I… What? Do I want to know?
I’m not sure but, a community for posting scientific articles and discuss about it.
Currently the biggest one, I think, is science@lemmy.ml (though science@lemmy.world and science@beehaw.org are strong competitors). I’m going to try kick-starting STEM@lemmy.world soon, too.
I’m into conspiracies and occultism, while Reddit wasn’t perfect in that regard, I would enjoy either one having a bigger presence
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.
I do not have the skill or bandwidth to mod a community, but if someone makes creepywikipedia I would absolutely contribute to it!
An easier way to link communities. It was so simple on reddit just typing r/sub but here it’s more complicated
