Niche communities that are active.
I climb and miss the climbingcirclejerk subreddit. A very active group of like-minded douchebags taking the piss out of our favourite sport.
So far, it has been a challenge to find good niche communities. Either they're dead or there's like two people and they're not nice people.
If anything, I almost wish there were less communities. There aren't many users, so what little content there is gets splattered across so many communities that I sometimes feel like the user-to-community ratio is one to one.
I understand why Reddit needed super niche subreddits, to filter their massive user base, but we don't have that problem yet.
In fact, it's even worse in our case, because each community can exist in duplicate on several instances - further fragmenting users.
I'm not necessarily saying it's bad that we have so many communities, and hopefully we'll grow in to them over time, but I do think people can sometimes get too focused on the Reddit mindset of creating a community for every little thing, when we just aren't there yet.
You’re on point. The niche communities are too niche right now now and content should be posting to the more general communities.
Except tenforward.
Even worse is the lack of normie content.
Theres like 75 communities for Linux and theres only 1 post in the weightlifting community with the most subs and that post is "what kind of community is this?"
I like nerd shit, but I also like normie shit.
I don't think weightlifting is very normie to a userbase similar to reddit. Reddit had many nerds and it seems so far Lemmy is even more nerdy. When I first came here I saw many posts about people creating their own Lemmy instances.
Honestly, rather than a community, a way to make a multi-Reddit style views of communities.
There are many communities with the same subject on different instances. Lemmy is great with this but having user fragmented across everywhere is an issue.
I use Summit and can make multi communities. Works great!
The entire aviation instance disappeared, awhile ago,
and I wish it hadn't.
Complaining about niche-communities existing, when the people in them care about them, is nihilist.
Let people have their own space: that's the whole point of Lemmy, isn't it?
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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I need a robust subreddit drama community. They can post from reddit (curating drama from there so I can munch popcorn and laugh without going there myself) and they can also post any federation dramas.
Basically, Mama needs her stories. But also can't be bothered to go out and get them.
Yeah. I miss bestRedditorUpdates or whatever that sub was called. But I am simultaneously relieved that isn't as much drama here.
There's more than enough comms, what those comms need are users.
But even on subreddits that are being actively harassed by reddit admins, users seem to have some kind of stockholm syndrome.
looks at blocked community list
Yeeeeah, probably less niche NSFW ones.
You can also block whole instances now.
At the very least, it would be nice if I didn't have to block a new AI generated porn community every other day
Askadoc, askhistorians, legaladvice, hiphopheads, outoftheloop, aftertheloop
!outoftheloop@lemmy.world exists
Awooo Awoooo?
The one with the howling puppies. It's the only thing I miss from Reddit. Not the one with the weird anime girl, the puppies one.
And husky tantrums and huskies. Videos and pics posted there are hilarious.
I forgot some of the subs I used to vist on reddit. But I liked:
- shittyaskscience
- mildvandalism
- scambait
- maliciouscompliance (this one does exist on lemmy, but it's not really active)
Really just an observation, but we're almost a year in and we still don't have our own KarmaCourt.
The game where the rules are made up and the points don't matter!
In Lemmy's case though, we could hypothetically make the outcome matter somewhat more, something more practical due to how Lemmy works.
Idunno, I really like that we don't have karma. It's stupid, but it makes me less upset when I make a comment that gets downvoted to hell.
I wish there was a League of Legends community that wasn't run by the main /r/leagueoflegends moderators and didn't have official Riot Games endorsement.
The subreddit feels heavily censored and sanitized to make Riot look good.
Cardiac support and ICD support. Those were two ones that I really found valuable after heart surgery and getting a pacemaker that exists on Reddit but I have not been able to find anywhere else. kind of lost a really important support structure to me when I left reddit. I know I could start one here but I'm just not the kind of person who is good at getting people to know about something that's available.
Entrepreneurial or small business advice kind of community.
- secondsfromdisaster
- Lenny
I have several somewhat niche interests and my favorite is Weezer shitposting. A community for it would be really coolz though I doubt who would post.
Well... Not really any, I just decided to create them.
There are ones that I'm planning to create in the future but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Just because they’re there doesn’t mean there is activity. That’s the main problem. It’s so fragmented it’s hard for those interested in a topic to find the same community.
The trick is you have to do it on an Instance with the correct demographic, also make sure to use tools like LCB to get them out to other instances, so they'll appear in search.
I miss what the r/samharris sub was. The people there were incredibly reasonable even when they disagreed with you. You're definitely still getting confronted when you say something controversial but it wasn't mobbing, shaming and calling names but instead they pointed out the flaws in your argument and actually tried to convice you to think othwerwise. It wasn't performative - people were actually up for having difficult conversations.
If I recall properly, there was a Mastodon instance dedicated to the fandom of the Eurovision Song Contest. Not sure what happened to it.
I think it was called douzepoints.social but I don't think it exists anymore. Sad.
I miss CartalkUK. It's was mostly just people having a laugh and taking the piss
