What do you miss from reddit?

Active niche communities
- Any that you're willing to start up? I'm always looking for new communities to join!
  
  Starting them up isn’t particularly difficult. Keeping them alive is.
  Without enough users (and old content), it can be hard to keep a community afloat

I miss reddit from 10 years ago.
Lemmy is nice.
- I agree.

Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don't have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.
I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss than politics or what the best linux distro is 😮‍💨.
- I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss
  Miquella did nothing wrong.
  
  Honestly, the only thing I don't condone him doing is literally giving up his love. How can he be a benevolent god without that?
- Hell, I still lurk truestl because there's no equal here.

The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I'm sure this platform will get there.

Active communities that aren't about Linux
- Have a look at the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- Active communities, period.
  Reddit started out without subreddits. Eventually grew too big for that so split into topical channels. Then the channel would get too big and a niche would subdivide out. When Lemmy started, our more so when there was the first but exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but with the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.

Content, comments
- I feel like largely we're fine for comments. Most posts, even on dead comms, get a good few comments.
  
  I like the comments here a lot more. Reddit's comment ranking algorithm mostly prioritized highly upvoted comments, so the top comments on every thread would be the earliest ones, and anything much later would be lost in the sea. Here new comments get ranked higher than older ones even if they have fewer upvotes, which gives them a lot more visibility.
  
  I just had my first thread that I came across today, after nearly 2 years here, that was collaboratively funny, creative, diverse and made me remember what lots of talent in a thread can do. Not just anti-establishment/political circle jerking, or a few tech categories that get enough visibility to get participation.
  It was a /mildlyinteresting thread about giraffes being more likely to be struck by lightning. It immediately made me feel like I was finallly home again after 2 years and looking forward to more and more growth in Lemmy and the fediverse.

Active communities for niche topics, like His Dark Materials, or Would You Rather, and the poll feature, which I used extensively. Yes, I know you can link to external platforms, but integrating it into the post was much nicer.
- I totally agree on polls.

Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.
- Have a look at the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

r/AskHistorians
- The extra-specific ask communities where great! Ask science fiction was one of my favorites

The hyperspecific interests mainly. The wealth of obscure info too.

A less specific demographic, which is a little ironic when referring to reddit. But lemmy is even more a subset of a subset of a subset of people than reddit is, and it gets a bit old at times.
Politics everywhere, and most of it is just circlejerking over something trump is doing and everyone agreeing how terrible he / his supporters / his handlers / the broligarchs are. There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things. And I'm also not an american.
Then there is an annoying flood of trans content, which is great that it has its place here, but for the most part doesn't interest me beyond a general sentiment of support for people to live their life how they wish. I want more diversity in my feed.
Not in necessarily in opinions but in topics
- There isnt much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I dont need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things.
  Yes. There's little or no novelty here. I'm not surprised by something new or interesting. I get a lot of nostalgia hits because we've all experienced similar things.
  
  those commnets almost always bots, i dont entertain them, when i do sometimes i report them because they were obvious spamming, like the bots they were.

The breadth of the content

I miss... the idea of it.

r/electricians mostly
I'm an industrial electrician and I don't know a single soul in my life outside of my career who I can shoot the shit about electrical systems. Sometimes I just want to nerd out about it, or discuss UL and NEC codes, or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha
- or sometimes just removed about old crap from decades ago you have to work on haha
  dot ml strikes again
  
  And here, I thought maybe it was a joke about all the stuff people deleted during the API drama, or maybe a joke about all the stuff getting removed in recent times, but nope, just good old ml censorship.

The only communities that I still regularly browse on Reddit are the regional communities for the place I live currently and places I've lived previously. Those seem to have little to no activity around here. I no longer participate in them on Reddit, only lurk.
- i used to but i heard alot of cities or states got astroturfed by right wingers, in my city, theres all these good-two-shoes people.

Interaction on posts that have been up for more than 8 hours
- The New Comments sort helps with that

Diversity. People on R were less uniform.
Maybe because they were more.
When there was only one allowed opinion in a sub, then you could often find another sub with the same topics allowed, but the only one allowed opinion was another one.
- Reddit started out very similar to the current lemmy/fediverse audience. The nerds go first and eventually everyone else follows.
  The "When does the narwhal bacon" crowd was not diverse at all
- now it bans you for any opinion as of recently, but more heaivly geared if your criticizing musk, or the right, because musk had complained to spez on 2 occasions to start a purge of accounts.

A lot of good people need to make the switch.

r/popping
- I do occasionally go back to reddit for that one. I don't think video heavy subs will make it here in lemmy's current state.
- RUSTY PLIERS

r/notinteresting being everything but not interesting

Posting my depraved "performance art" and interacting with my fans in the comments
My woman trolling each other back and forth
A few regulars from Askredditafterdark

r/simpleliving or, more exactly, a more active version of it since the community is there: !simpleliving@lemm.ee. And more people participating in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community too but hopefully we're slowly getting there.
- I always feel like people living simply minimize their time online, so this kind of communities tend to be a bit quiet
  
  Many do limit online time but there is also 8 billions of us on this planet. So, no matter how strictly we limit our involvement, I think the community itself, not each individual member, should be a little more active at any given time. But like with many communities on Lemmy we lack more participants ;)

I still browse and almost caught myself commenting recently. I quickly backspaced and exited out and came over here where I feel safe posting comments and interacting.
- its too easy to gett banned there now, even a simple comment removal will trigger a shadown ban in many cases, plus a VPN would result in a ban eventually.

Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I'd missed, etc.

the OG communities, that were banned in '16-'17 because the gop started labeling alot of platforms as violent. P45 caused so many people to be overly sensitive, that reddit started banning in large numbers to cull the herd.
and most cities subreddits have been taken over by right wingers.

Getting banned with 100s of my fake account.