Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

1y ago

Which communities are you currently missing on Lemmy?

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It's not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.
- yeah, that's something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
  
  Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
- Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it's always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.
  Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.
- Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.
- You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de
  
  Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities
- On connect there's an option to hide read posts

Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv
- Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don't have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community... So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
  It's an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I'd lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
- Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
  In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.
- Agree. Would be great to have some of them move over, WoW is very quiet here.

I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
- I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.

Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there
- Oneorangebraincell
  
  This is definitely one of my favourites. I feel like I have moved to Instagram for my cat fix for now.
- I stumbled upon this one
  !catsstandingup@lemmy.world
  
  Thanks! Subbed.
- Greebles and hitmanimals are always fun too

For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.
My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests
- Yep definitely feeling this. I’m mostly into flight and space sims… so a niche within a niche. None of these communities made the move over to lemmy with me.

I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.
Still not worth supporting Reddit though.
- r/electricians was the funniest thing on Reddit and I miss it dearly
  
  Justrolledintotheshop is pretty fucking funny too.

Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.
For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.
Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.
The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.
I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!
- I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.
  
  By the way, there is a Daystrom Institute: https://startrek.website/c/daystrominstitute
  
  I always liked the idea of top-level comments being exclusively in-universe, and out-of-universe comments have to be replies to other comments!

Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.

Best of Redditor Updates 😭
- Oh yes! It was my daily dose of wtfness.
- /r/bestof was great. Maybe not the actual the best of but it at least had an eclectic mix of interesting comments.
  
  https://kbin.social/m/bestof is similar.
- Yeah, I miss it so much. In a couple years hopefully there'll be something like it here on Lemmy.

Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.
- I started posting to eletricians but i am the only one.

Daddit. It was such a wholesome and helpful community
- Dadsplain@lemmy.ca is kinda like daddit. It's starting to have traction.
  
  !Dadsplain@lemmy.ca for the lazy people like me
- Dadworld is trying to be Daddit. It just needs more from there to join.
  Edit: network error posted the same thing multiple times.

The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.
Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.
And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I'm feeling out of the loop
- Art isn't my world so I'm sure there's plenty more on lemmyverse.net but I do know !artshare@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) has been getting going a bit recently.
- I went to sub to the comicbook feed yesterday for the same reason and was sad to see there didn't look to be an active one

I miss all my fun niche subs. Like mirror forsale, were it's just funny pics of people who sell mirrors or take pics in front of mirrors.
Purple coco, sub for plugs in strange places.
Chairsinwater, its chairs in water and the flair was always NSFW.
There more but those are the top ones I miss.
- You would have loved breadstapledtotrees!
  
  Probably. Had a tree sub I miss and there were tons of others.
  Plan to go to Reddit soon to scrap my posts and comments then delete my account.
  Think I will make a list of those subs and maybe other Lemmy can help start similar ones here.
- !chairsunderwater@lemmy.world
  For some chair action
  !chairsunderwater@lemm.ee
  There’s this one but not as much activity.
  
  Thank you definitely what I wanted.
- Every time someone makes one of these threads, I am reminded anew how weird people's tastes can be 😅

Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃

Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.

The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like "this isn't truly frugal!"). /r/buildapcsales was the same way

AskHistorians

A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.
- pops up like Obi-Wan
  Hello there!
  I have just the list for you: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/289893
  
  Not who you were replying to, but this is awesome. Thank you!
  
  Thank you!

The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity
- Agreed. I'm really missing the Street Fighter and and related FGC communities from reddit.

r/NFL, r/CFB, and r/Hockey. They all kinda exist here but are nowhere active enough.. I miss game threads with thousands of comments.
- Where do they exist?
  
  !nfl@lemmy.world
  !hockey@lemmy.ca
  !cfb@lemmy.world
  These are the ones I joined
- Where do they exist?

I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here

MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats

I miss r/badtaxidermy It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.

A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don't usually encounter in my day to day life so I've been missing that.
- I was looking for creepywikipedia but nothing yet and the app I’m using doesn’t seem to have an option for starting communities yet
  
  There's definitely someone pasting creepywikipedia links - just scrolled past a load of them in 'new/all'

Personal finance, the EU version of it and the German version of it
Women centric communities

My hometown..... great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.

r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes

My local city's subreddit. Someone's made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.
- I think every city/location sub is like this. It's the only one not governed by interest, but of location.
  I'm trying to seed my own, but it's a Sisyphean task. And I know the only way to really get it going is to mention Lemmy IRL.

Prequelmemes, renfaire, antiwork, bikinibottomtwitter, raimimemes, insanepeoplefacebook, oldpeoplefacebook, Disneyvacation/notdisneyvacation, earthporn, novontextpics, marvelstudios.
- Hello there, For a prequelmemes replacement, checkout:
  !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
  
  While it's ok, it's not prequel memes. Too many sequel memes for me in there.
- https://lemmy.ca/c/antiwork is similar to r/antiwork
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !antiwork@lemmy.ca

r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit

There's a Pokemon Go subreddit called TheSilphRoad that was basically the place for in depth discussion on the game. Such subs here have been quiet and shallow.

The dry-herb vaping communities haven't really transitioned very well, and I'm too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.

stupiddovenests
- omg I didn’t even know this was a thing… but knowing doves, it’s immediately self-explanatory
  their “nests” are just so bad
  I love them so much with their 3 scattered sticks on pavement

I kinda miss collapse and acab for doom scrolling.

WhitePeopleTwitter
- There's !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
- Isn't that just 90% stolen from BlackPeopleTwitter?

I miss the data analysis subs

Linguistic humor. I know it exists in the lemmyverse but it's not active

I still miss some of the more niche music subreddits, (updating this as I discover relevant communities)
/kikagakumoyo
/Krautrock
/psychedelicrock
/nearprog
/zappa - !frankzappa@lemmy.world
- !stoner_rock@sh.itjust.works just found one, woo!
  Www.lemmyverse.net rules when it comes to finding communities
  
  Thanks I just subbed

Where's stupidfood? I need ideas for dinner!

r/mls and r/soundersfc
There is an mls community but it doesn't get a lot of traffic.
- On a similar note would love to see some NWSL content.

I miss communities sharing news about the attack of Russia on Ukraine. I was mainly browsing these subs: r/ukraine, r/ukrainewarvideoreport, r/combatfootage, r/ncd Non credible defence seems to be active but the others are pretty empty. These subs had about lets a ton of posts every day

/r/Skincareaddiction, /r/EuroSkincare, various fanfiction subs, /r/Medicine, and a lot more.
Reddit has SO many niche communities that have built up a fairly large amount of information over time. I'm determined to stick to Lemmy but it sucks to lose all that knowledge. It's going to take years for Lemmy to build up.

The grimdank here is inactive. I miss all my Warhammer 40k faction subs, distressingmemes/surrealmemes, and all the extremely active gamedev subs.
- !gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone (Lemmy / Kbin) has a list of related communities pinned at https://lemmy.world/post/34963 if that's any help.
  
  Thank you

A pokemon go info and discussion community. More r/silph less /go .. some magical middle ground.
- Not the first PokeGo reply here, glad to see im not alone in this. Is there a main pokemon community here?

r/PWM_Sensitive
It has less than 1000 members for a very niche topic. With the subreddit so small I doubt it would start here.

Most of the technology subs I followed have migrated to some degree, but I've noticed a lot of "normie" subs are still stuck. For me in particular, r/Writing prompts, r/nosleep, and r/YoutubeHaikus are sorely missed.

Seems like all the main ones I subscribed to on reddit are already here in some form, I'm hoping AskHistorians comes on over. There's two more extremely niche communities related to US immigration that I'm in which seem unlikely to ever make it here, but we'll see.

/r/midjourney
- https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai this one is a mix of image ai.
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- There's a few ai generated images communities here. But not as in depth as they were on Reddit. r/stablediffusion had a lot more discussion, not just pictures.
- That sub was so fun. How midjourney interpreted architecture as fashion was fascinating

All the niche anime subreddits I frequented. I'm not really a creator myself and I don't think there's enough people migrated to this site for someone else to start posting about PreCure news or similar.
- We don't even have a JoJo community here yet.
  
  Surely that's just a matter of time, right? Shitpostcrusaders was pretty fucking big
- There are some manga instances but nothing great as of yet, and I assume it's mostly the same for anime, animemes aside. I'm really missing shitpostcrusaders though
- Any other particular subs or communities in mind? I could start a few if it matches my interests.

I miss r/marijuanaenthusiasts, which was so named because weed enjoyers had already claimed r/trees. On a search, I see there has already been a "trees" community on Lemmy for a while now (more than one - because of course), but I turned up a big fat goose egg when looking for its arborism-centeic counterpart.
- Be the change you want to see in the Fediverse.

Dragon Age. I need somewhere to removed about not having news despite being promised news back in November (like goddamnit Bioware, all we want is a trailer!)

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