as a reddit refugee i mostly use lemmy, but sometimes i go back by a lack of alternative to some subreddit, which one you feel there is a need ?
EDIT1: there are some comments with communities that already exist, check it!
Something I think is genuinely useful about Reddit that I don’t know if Lemmy has replicated yet is the whole genre of “The entire world is here, someone will recognize what you’re talking about” subs. What is this thing, what is this bug, tip of my tongue, tip of my joystick, ask historians, ask mechanics…I’m not sure we’ve established that brain trust here.
It’s the lack of really small, niche, but still relatively active communities that is the biggest loss for me (so far). For example, I want to to talk about Brentford FC, a tiny English football club which was only promoted to the Premier League a couple of years ago. But we’re a million miles away from that when there are exactly two communities for general soccer and one community for Liverpool FC, all three with exactly one subscriber.
Any other Bees fans out there? This Flekken guy seems pretty promising, even if I had hopes for Alban Lafont.
OP, please don’t go making empty ghost communities based on the feedback here. That would be worse than no community at all. Communities should be created by topic enthusiasts.
Lots of individual game subs
Yeah, sadly I don’t think we’re at the size required to make a vibrant community for all but the biggest games. I miss the Oxygen Not Included sub most.
Intellectually, I think lemmy already has a good grasp on topics…but I do miss the daily video content of r/crazyfuckingvideos, r/publicfreakout, and r/idiotsincars.
L4L (or, R4R). It went private on Reddit and is still dark. Probably not enough users on Lemmy for it to be viable here yet though.
Lemmy drama, I want to gossip about other communities and read people fighting for stupid shit.
I was sure there was a community for Lemmy drama but I can’t find it rn
r/frogs and r/orphancrushingmachine
r/orphancrushingmachine
I… What? Do I want to know?
It’s a a send-up of the supposedly “feel-good” stories about people that go above and beyond to make the horrors of some societal problem (usually capitalism) less horrifying for somebody. Like, when a child holds a 48 hr lemonade sale marathon to erase the lunch debt of his/her peers. Yeah, it’s a nice thing to do, but it should NOT be necessary.
The idea is that we would see stories talking about how great this person is for slowing down an orphan crushing machine, without questioning the need for an orphan crushing machine in the first place.
It still is terrible but a different kind of terrible compared to what I was expecting. Thanks!
I do not miss the circle jerk subs. I admit some were funny, but most were just mean-spirited and ended up becoming worse than whatever it was they set out to make fun of. For example, the books circle jerk sub was full of snobs who snarked at people in the books sub for…gasp… liking popular books.
There’s just something inherently pathetic in using a platform to make fun of others on the same platform. It’s like going to a dance party solely to stand on the side and make fun of the way people dance.
I hope that sort of thing doesn’t catch on here. But the “asshole filter” could creep in if lemmy reaches a high user population.
Someone did make goblincore, but it’s still mostly empty and I’m not talented enough to contribute lol
I loved looking through all the mossy green nature pics, tiny ecoscapes, mushrooms, frogs, and forest-witch style craftsmanship from people much more creative than myself
I miss my guilty pleasure /r/NonCredibleDefense
/r/fountainpens
I’ll see myself out.
Have you checked out !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu ?
I fucking love you
Just from the top of my head r/BoneAppleTea and r/AmITheAsshole
Both of these are on lemmy.world. Might not be quite as much content yet though.
I really miss daddit.
Maybe you need to create dadly or kdadbin?
A community about fountain pens and calligraphy, I loved watching that stuff
Checkout !fountainpens@sopuli.xyz :)
