What are some communities you miss on reddit?
Just curious. I miss mainly language stuff, some video game communities (like RoN, KCD) and some local communities like for Arabs or Saudis (tbf those were always cesspits but I miss talking to other Arabs on Lemmy)
I'll try to be the change I want to see. How about you?
Crazyfuckingvideos (especially since I was one of the first posters there), Reeftank, Bookcirclejerk, Playboicarti, Gardening, Photography
r/collapse
Full of the most pessimistic possible interpretation of climate change events and news possible.
It's here too, but quite dead.
r/UFOs, r/hugenaturaltits, r/liberalgunowners
r/liberalgunowners
It's not the same but maybe you might find !armedqweers@lemmy.blahaj.zone to your liking.
I miss r/oura as I could dunk on oura for enshittification. We all could. And then we could collectively decide what else to get.
I think there was an r/redhat too, but that was full of "how do I quit vi" and left no room for debating what should replace Systemd (I vote inittab but there was a minimalist just-enough-lennart crew that made a good argument for a stepdown so people could get some distance and see the pain objectively and get over the sunk-cost).
I like r/pics but I was permabanned for - as far as I can tell - an "and my ax" comment.
That's about it.
There was a sub i think called r/daily3d that offered a daily prompt for users to create in 3d modeling software like blender. It became inactive years ago when the moderator who offered the prompts stepped down and set up a bot to come up with it instead. It was never huge, usually 10 entries a day at its peak, but that was a fun sub to check in on every so often. Some users were really good, and before the bot took over, the mod offered prompts that encouraged user interpretation and creativity.
I miss there being a lot more Swedes around in the Swedish community. There's >100k+ on Reddit, !sweden@lemmy.world has far less active users and a large chunk of the posts are from me.
I feel like it's quite common for smaller countries to be honest. What is the stance of the subreddit mods about promoting it? I've had bad experiences in the past about trying to promote Lemmy on geodefault subs.
I wouldn't know, as I haven't logged in to Reddit since 2023.
I think I may have posted something about it around July when the API changes were announced, but that was probably too early for anyone to care.
Fashion
!malefashionadvice@lemmy.world is so quiet that I wouldn't even try more niche style.
skincare
Similar for !skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works
Niche committees for random movies, TV shows, games, or whatever form of entertainment
Besides the general ones like !showsandmovies@lemm.ee and !movies@lemm.ee, there are a few like !severance@lemmy.world . We keep a pinned post at the top of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee , feel free to have a look.
Fashion
Honestly, I think there's two big barriers to this (same goes for the NSFW side of things, if I may say). No posting to your own profile and from what I can tell, a very inconsistent (or non-existent) system of being able to follow specific users. Reddit is much better equipped for people who are going to be posting pictures of themselves and maybe promoting themselves and gaining a following.
But I think also the other problem that also applies to things like skincare / health and niche entertainment communities is just that there's not enough users around yet to make more niche subjects active. That I understand and can only hope changes over time.
We keep a pinned post at the top of !showsandmovies@lemm.ee
Thanks, I have checked out that thread before. Seems to be a good place to check for any new specific communities that pop up or that I haven't thought of. I think I need to add that community to my favourites and visit it more often because it seems like the best central place for now. Although of course I'm not watching everything as it comes out, so can't promise I'll be commenting on everything.
None of the Japanese communities actually migrated over (for those living here, such as the finance one), which is sad. I'm still hoping they eventually do. Until then, unless law and taxes become much easier (try doing legalese in your non-native language that has thousands of characters and tons of Jargon), I still go there for that. Same with ALTTPR, unless it has some community I haven't seen yet.
Tbf, most I use especially since I started ignoring news and politics... Chinese, Buddhism, art, yoga, poetry etc. Local city subreddit. Everything "humanities" is sparsely populated here even though I try my best to get the ball rolling. I still use reddit for some of this.
Thank you for your posts on !imaginary@reddthat.com !
We have !fedigrow@lemm.ee to discuss community growing and posting
Thanks to you too for your hard work :) Already joined !fedigrow@lemm.ee!
I think Polandball has never really taken off here, same with Lego :/
I just started posting to !lego@lemm.ee yesterday, feel free to join!
C'est tragique. I never spent much around polandball, compball or that stuff but it was kinda nice seeing them every once in a while (even if i didn't get them lmao) but the fact there is no lego community is insane.
The Polandball community on Reddit is really focused on the creators I don't see them moving anywhere soon :(
There actually is a lego community !Lego@lemmy.world but it's very slow with roughly 1 post per week. Certainly doesn't scratch the itch
There are some great communities of obsessive hobbyists here like !Selfhosted@lemmy.world, and if you throw a brick in any direction you'll hit two Linux nerds, but reddit has /r/sysadmin and other infosec groups that have large numbers of industry professionals - and no amount of enthusiasm can substitute for real-world experience. I miss the conversation from people who spend time writing system security plans, reading NIST documentation for guidance, thinking about remote management for networks that support thousands of end users, and who have to actually deal with the cybersecurity incidents that get reported in the news.
You can contact L3s, the mod of !sysadmin@lemmy.world and ask to become a mod since the rest are completely inactive. Though i don't know how you'd be able to consistently post nor the content that was on there, since i'm not a sysadmin :)
Lemmy is very poor in gay communities. There are some, but very inactive.
You might want to chime in on this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/gaymers/comments/1ik8z9f/discussion_has_rgaymers_ever_considered/
Strange, you'd think blahaj zone, despite mainly being trans would have some communities for gays and lesbians.
You prompted me to go through and check what I was subscribed to on Reddit, so here goes:
!cubers@lemmy.world exists, but it is pretty small, and there isn't really a meme culture associated with it. Rubik's cubes are very visual hobby, so perhaps this is being hampered by image hosting costs/restrictions? Personally, since I can't post photos straight from my camera, so I haven't bothered to post any images.
For now, I think these topics can be adequately served by !spaceflight@sh.itjust.works, !spacex@sh.itjust.works, and !rocketlab@lemmy.nz.
We do have !spaceflightmemes@sh.itjust.works, but I'm keeping it on "life support" with Reddit content. I wish the Lemmy spaceflight userbase was large enough to support its own meme culture.
I've made !hellointernet@feddit.uk, but things have been pretty slow. It doesn't help that the podcast hasn't uploaded in five years XD
@grant@toast.ooo has made a nice home for !cgpgrey@toast.ooo. (Psst, it's time to swap out the pinned Cortex thread for the latest episode :)
I think these are adequately served by !teslamotors@lemmy.zip and !avs@futurology.today. (Thanks @BrikoX@lemmy.zip and @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al)
I've made !boringcompany@sh.itjust.works, but haven't had the time to grow it. For Neuralink, might a more general community for brain computer interfaces be viable on Lemmy? I'm thinking something like !bci@futurology.today.
We had !carcassonne@feddit.de, but no replacement was created when feddit.de went down. Any instance recommendations?
!fusion@lemmy.ml and !fusionenergy@lemmy.ml exist, but they are pretty dead and I'd rather move off of ml where possible. I couldn't find anything for deextinction or cultured meat.
@Lugh@futurology.today, any interest in growing communities for these on futurology.today?
HarryPotteronHBO
Closest thing is probably !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social, but it is also being kept on life support with Reddit content.
Nothing whatsoever for this.
Somehow, my favourite 3rd-party app still works on my phone. I don't know how, and I'm not going to ask questions. I am sad that u/codesForLiving hasn't made a Lemmy app. Anyone know what they're doing now or how to contact them?
If the casual spaceflight and Lego userbase of Lemmy could be grown, this community would arise naturally :)
!penderwicks@literature.cafe would be the obvious choice, I just haven't gotten around to creating it yet.
Writing prompts. It's here, but it's unpopulated. Tbf the Reddit one wasn't super populated either, but that's where I did a lot of my reading.
Yeah, it gets the occasional post, but responses are few, and tend to take a while to show up
Interesting, never heard of it. Though that content sounds like it takes effort which only a select couple of users would exert.
There was like, under 100 people who would write, but a lot of them were very good. I bought a couple of ebooks and read tens of thousands of pages of work from there.
I miss tankporn, there aren't enough images of vehicles that can kill me in my Lemmy feed.
Niche communities, of course
StableDiffusion
!stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
For the two others, !gardening@lemmy.world is probably the closest
Thanks, I appreciate the effort! I actually have the top comment on the most recent post in the gardening 'sublemmit' lol
As for StableDiffusion, ai image/video gen is quickly changing field so it kind of needs a big group of enthusiasts to keep up to date on new projects and developments
r/suomi, r/zombiesurvivaltactics and r/samharris
There's my list the communities I miss and it's not even a full list. Majority of them don't exist on the threadiverse but there are some that do but the problem there is that pretty much everything is dead/stale.
And countless other art and niche communities.
r/animation
I didn't ask for recommendations. I just shared what I miss and lemmy in no way will replace them for me due to low traffic like I mentioned at the top of my comment. I know those communities exist. I'm working on indexing communities for !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com after all although it's behind the scenes so the current form isn't representative of what I know of.
Journaling
You might want to format it a bit, it's quite hard to read at the moment
Just finished.
r/morbidquestions. I don't think it's coming here any time soon as it's a moderation hell and lemmy doesn't seem very into morbid stuff.
Yeah, I started one here, told the folks on the discord about it, and nobody ever switched.
Mind you, I abandoned the sub a ways before reddit shit the bed in '23, but it had a warm and bloody place in my heart, and some of the people there were/are genuinely great folks.
Tbh, I think here moderation would be easy enough for now. Lemmy runs higher to people that actually read community rules. And, since there's a lot less limits to what can be discussed overall, a small team could handle it as long as they aren't all in the same time zone.
But, over on reddit, automod could handle most of it anyway. Throw in some keywords, set it to filter for mod review, and you're good to go. Without that, if it got as big as the subreddit did, it could get to be a serious job.
I was actually wondering if you're the same southsamurai from there. Your comments were always super detailed and informative. I also haven't visited the sub in a while but it did have a culture of low/more chaotic moderation which I guess attracted similar users. Maybe we could do without that here.
3d communities like blender, vfx were active, I was getting back into webdesign (for local businesses freelancing) so wordpress was interesting (for the drama not helpful lol), comicbooks was wayyy more active there (I stopped reading when reddit permabanned me, i liked discussing with the ppl reccomending me stuff), fantasy for books, all the drug related ones, rave related ones, nootropics, supplements, etc. Adhd and adhdmemes there was good, thats okay here.
Very nice. I've not much to say but: be the change you want to see ;) (or not, it's your choice lol)
Yeah I just prefer to see posts and comments from ppl who know what they're talking about, specialists, im a hobby hopper, I never get that far lol, I lose interest and generally never get past intermediate
I dont miss any of the popular front page subreddits, browsing that right now was tedious
Ain't that the truth, a lot of them partially moved here sadly but it's easily blockable.
Niche communities for colonysims, or the communties for the games themselves, that was always divided between there and discord tho, any niche community in general, like valiant comics has a subreddit, robinhobb has one, the cosmere has one, etc.
Touchdesigner had a useful community there, davinci resolve, resolume, etc.. ngl I reopened reddit for the firsr time in a few days just to check what I was missing, so im not missing it that much lol
It was very effective at keeping me interested in games, like being subbed to tenkaichi 4 is the only reason I remembered the game existed just now opening reddit
Yeah i missed game communities. I think i'm going to create kingdom come / ready or not comms here, though will there be a lot of users? Probably not.
Was also getting into dropshipping, reddit helped me remember my hobbies because I get distracted easily but it also constantly gave me new distractions, miss seeing flightsim stuff, hotas, etc. but it was all very repetitive and I dont play flight sims rnow. The indiedev, vrgaming, etc. subreddits were pretty active, ue and unity, all of those types of subs I like there. You constantly see the cool stuff people are working on, it's motivating.
Sbcgaming is another good one, would've never known android/linux handhelds are so good now.
ebike/ebikes. energy. endlesswar, internationalrelations, aww.
thans for aww link. Energy and micromobility nowhere close to as active. world is just r/worldnews bs with only explicity zionist supremacism absent.
One for my model of car. One for native plants in my area
Have you tried !cars@lemmy.world and !gardening@lemmy.world ?
I would love a native plant community on general. What area are you interested in?
California / Western US. The reddit one is named r/ceanothus
Couldn't Lemmy create a 'Replicate Reddit' bot that copies new posts from specific communities on Reddit and recreates them under similar communities on Lemmy?
Issues people have with this is
Most posts are also at 0 comments with 0 upvotes, because what's the point of interacting with a post for no reason?
every single sub for media/franchises i'm a fan of and 3d software
!showsandmovies@lemm.ee as a pinned post with some specific communities
Leaving a comment there so I remember to share the list later.
