What do you miss from reddit?

The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.

Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That's pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.

Personal insults.
The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.
But tbh I don't really miss any of those things, cuz they're all here on lemmy too.
- I'm gonna downvite youre comment you reddit libtard. /s

Content

Active niche communities
- Local communities that are active too
- 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

Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.
- Lemmy is actually getting better. It's like Reddit when it was just starting.
- Hey now, we also have programming and meta-fediverse discussions as well /s
- Have a look at the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn't have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn't even be here :)
- Rip rif
  
  🐐
  
  My beloved. I kept it on my phone for a few weeks after it was shut out, it still had access to some content and I thought all this would blow over :(

AskHistorians

I miss reddit from 10 years ago.
Lemmy is nice.
- Came here to say this. Reddit is a shitshow, it's as bad as Facebook now IMO. Lemmy is quiet but higher quality and a far nicer atmosphere
- I agree.

Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.
- It's the worst thing about Lemmy and all it really does is make me more hesitant to squander potential friends by acting shitty, and less liable to spend hours chatting.
  
  I could go on a sub like NoStupidQuestions or AskElectricans, etc where someone would ask a question about some super obscure topic I happen to be knowledgeable on. I could write a long, in-depth response which would then get dozens of responses and further questions. I'd be engaged in the same conversation about this topic or that for days.
  Here, it feels like 99% of conversations are about IT/programming, which is not my field, or about American politics.
- For me it's also the breadth of people there.
  
  Gift and a curse. Gift when some random person has a hilarious, crazy story. Curse because now it is infected with average people who are extremely materialistic, closed minded, and enchained by limiting self beliefs. So it quickly becomes a cesspool of hate, depression, and crab bucketing.

Active communities that aren't about Linux
- 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, or more so when there was the first big exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but without the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.
  
  That happens regularly on !fedigrow@lemm.ee
- Hey now. Trek communities are live and well
- Have a look at the pinned post on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.
- use alts for different interests (e.g. one account for niche communities, one for memes, one for news)
  consider https://piefed.social/ as they have personal and public feeds (multireddits)

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.
- Lemmy.world already has a sub for the best game ever.
  https://lemmy.world/c/tf2

Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy
- Don't know if you know but we have hide on read in the settings, but I also wish it worked like on Reddit.
  
  Yeah, I have that enabled, but really miss my hide on vote

The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people
- All 4 avalanche fans were on Reddit?
  /Jk

Most subs i follow have a discord anyway, so mostly on discord. For the subs not on discord, I use alternative measures viz; a. ChubbyFire - I still check the space out
b. r4r- I Resort to other pay for play NSFW apps.

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

The Reminder bot
- @remindme@mstdn.social
  
  @remindme@mstdn.social 2 weeks

a good solid baseball community, and a sportbook community.

Larger population of users = more content and more communities

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.

The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.

The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I'm getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.
The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn't even enough because my tastes are.... Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I'm confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.
That being said, there's still so much more to love on fediverse that I don't need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like "the only good nazi..." and people will know what I'm talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It's just a much more grown up place here, and I'm much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I've noticed this in other people, too, that there's far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.
- Yup, the porn is lacking. I think part of the problem is all gay porn gets downvoted on World even if it's posted on LemmyNSFW, and the one posted on World is simply not welcome. I tried but it didn't catch on so I let it be. :/
- The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I’m getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.
  Have you used Voyager, Thunder, Summit?
  https://www.lemmyapps.com/
  
  In like 2023 and a little last year, I tried out literally a dozen of them. Most of them were in earlier stages of development and were VERY space wasteful whilst also showing very little data AND having no customizations to fix that stuff. I'm currently using Sync, and as long as I customize the shit out of it, it's bearable.
  I tried: jerboa, kbin, connect, voyager, lemmotif, thunder, liftoff, summit, sync, a different voyager, tundra, and artemis.
  I eventually got burnt out on trying and trying to customize each app, and settled on sync I guess.

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

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.

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

Activity that isn't political shit.
Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.
Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)
The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It's tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn't improved with the rise of Nazi America.
- Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.
  Can you elaborate, what is bad?
- if american: calling ACAB anything other than an extremely rational response to modern slavery is fucking absurd.
  otherwise: ok yeah your cops are almost definitely better than American cops but I'm not convinced cops anywhere are a net positive to society other than maybe Scandinavian countries where the main form of punishment is legitimately rehabilitation focused
  
  Are you okay with having all of your stuff stolen? Because no cops is how you have all your stuff stolen

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
  
  The censor specific words in comments rather than just deleting a whole comment? That's some shit.
  
  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.
  
  What did they censor? The b word?
- I was pretty active there, too! I had a long post about the differences between grounding and bonding that was stickied to the sidebar for a while. I think it's still there...
  
  Oh man welcome to my daily hell about this topic haha. We build, install, repair systems for the largest steel mills in the country. Think 100 foot long lineups all bussed together, all 100% custom. Some of them easily 6k to 12k amps.
  Painted surfaces can really sneak up on you, and we've changed how we bond panels like three times since I've been here for a couple years (worked on this type of equipment for about 10 tho). We used to not bond the sub to our common gnd bus on the floor, thinking the studs to the cabinet frame was enough. But with shielded cable, it needs a direct path to gnd on shield and gnd in one spot and for all shields to be tied together.
  If you wanna get into a really heady topic, see what happens when you put a piece of strut or gnd wire or another power wire in between parallel runs of power wire per phase on a three-phase AC system

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 isn't much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I don't 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.

I miss... the idea of it.

Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I'd missed, etc.
- Same. The r/severanceappletvplus threads are amazing.
  
  I would generally be watching out of sync so I'd have full threads to enjoy, rich content very often.

youtuber communities

Interaction on posts that have been up for more than 8 hours
- The New Comments sort helps with that
- I find that most posts will get a few comments at least.
  
  Yes, but the drop off in replies to new comments is early and sudden.

The breadth of the content

r/twobestfriendsplay, the second best subreddit for everything

My points or whatever. I used to be a huge pot head and made some content people really liked so I had some nice numbers.

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.

absolutely nothing.

Subs/communities for actively watched shows. I find myself needing to browser redlib for insights on, most recently, the white lotus and the last of us
- I still go back to reddit for r/severanceappletvplus.
  !severance@lemmy.world is nice, but not the same.

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 ;)

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.

r/libraryofbabel, r/tragedeigh, and r/everyoneknowsthat. But I can live without them.
Tragedeigh gets depressing sometimes as someone who had a horrible name growing up. Libraryofbabel kinda encourages my maladaptive daydreaming and honestly creating !0x255@sh.itjust.works wasn't the best for trying to break out of my daydreaming addiction.
However I can get my Who's Who updates somewhere else. Everyone knows ~~that~~ it, you've got ulterior motives!

r/notinteresting being everything but not interesting
- r/countablepixels was pretty interesting too but it looks like all the drama has died out :/

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

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.

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.