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 ?
Lemmy currently lacks the userbase for niche, specific communities, or subregional communities
Yep. It’s never an issue to fill a message board with memes and cats, the hard part is filling the niche communities. I hope it gets there.
Fingers crossed that they come eventually.
Sync for reddit will soon be linking to Sync for lemmy
I really miss r/askhistorians
oh i feel this so hard. i hope the mods are collating their best answers and saving the info to somehow bring over here.
You should send the mods a mail to see if they have any Lemmy plans. It’s worth it just to know. Sometimes they don’t have a plan but they do know of a good alt community for you to try out
that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.
I look at it as Lemmy isn’t large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.
One that I miss is “r/sex” for discussions and support about sex.
r/Sex is a good one, however 90% of questions could be answered by “talk to your partner”. I’ll agree that it is a positive community for general discussion about sex though.
It shows that these are the communities of geeks, doesn’t it
For me economics, finance, and investing subs are the ones that I got back for. Other than that most of the subs that I liked are mostly here
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 miss Warhammer 40k lore and memes.
There’s [email protected]
It’s about Warhammer 40k the tabletop game.
Interesting, I assumed it would be both. Well for memes there’s /c/[email protected].
An easier way to link communities. It was so simple on reddit just typing r/sub but here it’s more complicated
As far as I can tell, Lemmy server update 0.18 will improve upon relative linking of instances so that a link such as /c/community@lemmyinstance (or the even simpler !community@lemmyinstance) will take everyone to their own instances’ version of community@lemmyinstance (see this comment for a more detailed description)
I really miss r/hfy (Humanity, Fuck Yeah!) A sub which writes about humans doing awesome shit in space etc.
Thanks for reminding me about this! I need to continue where I left off with The UWS Alcubierre. Do you have any favorites on there?
Chrysalis stayed with me like no other. It was the reason I signed up for reddit.
I’ll have to check that out.
come July 1st, i think you’ll find a lot of people making that final push to come over here, try to figure out what the fediverse is, and moderate (or create from whole cloth) the communities they used to have. i certainly don’t have the time nor expertise to moderate any community, but i know lots of folks will come over here. July is gonna be huge.
now fix the bot problem and we’re gonna be ok.
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.
/r/anime, /r/arduino
I feell like that the problem is just discovery
I agree, the communities are going started but there’s no way to organically find them
I know there is https://browse.feddit.de which is how I found some of the communities I’m subscribed to
I like lemmyverse.net more in terms of UI and usability
Among what the others have mentioned, there is also sub.rehab - some results include communities that are not on Lemmy/Kbin however.
I used lemmyverse.net to find communities from the subs list I had on reddit, but I’ll just have to remember to keep searching after some time has passed since my I won’t have my reddit account for reference
Some of the apps in development like Memmy have search functions
I think I’ve found most of the communities here that I subscribed to when I left reddit. There are a couple I wish were here or more active.
Daddit was a great group of dads that were supportive and welcoming where we could vent, share memes, and just have general discussions about being a dad. They were really welcoming of moms too, as there’s not always a dad present for the kids.
The average person won’t jump through these hoops just trying to subscribe to a community. I can clearly see them on a list, but still not able to join a bunch from my instance (lemm.ee). Are they too small? Nobody from my instance on them? Whatever.
I think that if there is no one from your instance (which also happens to be my instance) is subscribed to a community on an instance other than your own then you have to search for it in the search bar (using the url or !community@lemmyinstance) before you will be able to interact with it. Lemmy doesn’t synchronize everything between all instances by default, only what is needed to save on resources.
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.
