It's not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.
Trust me it was worse before the reddit refugees came, I would wait a month before scrolling
yeah, that's something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
Not really, just subscribe to communities outside of your instance.
Like !osvaldo12@lemmy.fancywhale.ca. just subscribing to this from another instance and getting updates on your account regardless where it's from. Sorry if you already knew that.
Gotcha, I understand and will do that!
Use lemmyverse.net
Click the home icon and set your home instance and then search for whatever you want. All links will open in your home instance and you can then just subscribe.
I'm probably missing something easy, but where do you "just subscribe?"
There are a few communities that show up in lemmyverse, but aren't showing up when I search in my app (Jerboa)
Open the link from lemmyverse in a browser tab and click Subscribe. If on mobile you might have to expand the sidebar first. Then go back to Jerboa.
Awesome. Thank you. I was just missing opening the sidebar.
Now I just have to start contributing content to the community I just subscribed to that has 9 users. 🙂
You only need one home instance. So you’re on lemmy.world from what I can tell. If you go to their homepage and login, then click communities at the top, you can browse all the communities (subreddits). Just subscribe to whatever you want! Then later when you’re browsing you can sort by subscribed and it’ll be just those topics
Awesome! Thank you!
Even beyond subscribing to other communities that are also on a Lemmy instance, you can throw a wider net and use some form of fediverse software to interact with different kinds of instances.
I think Lemmy software may be a little more limited in this, as I haven't had much luck subscribing to Mastodon users on my Lemmy accounts, but I can subscribe to Lemmy communities on Mastodon and Calckey. I haven't really done much with it on Mastodon, but on Calckey I can see Lemmy posts from communities I'm subscribed to in my feed, and I can make a top-level reply to the post but I can't read or reply to the comments (unless they're replies to mine) without going to some version of Lemmy to view the rest of the post.
Still, that makes it pretty convenient to scroll through my own Calckey as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, and seemingly basically whatever else I could want. Sure, sometimes I have to switch sites to engage with the content, but that's as simple as clicking a link or at worst navigating to the post again on the site. With the pace of most instances, that's not hard to do
It's also not oversaturated, so people will actually see and interact with what you're posting, and yet if you cast a wide enough net you can get continuous content to read if you really want to.
I guess the point is, the more you take it into your own hands the more it can do for you.
No need to register. You can just subscribe to their communities with your current account. That’s part of what makes federation so handy. I’m on Reddthat.com but you can see this comment even though you’re on lemmy.world.
Thanks! Pretty neat!
Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it's always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.
Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.
Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.
Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv
Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don't have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community... So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
It's an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I'd lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.
Agree. Would be great to have some of them move over, WoW is very quiet here.
I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.
Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there
For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.
My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests
Yep definitely feeling this. I’m mostly into flight and space sims… so a niche within a niche. None of these communities made the move over to lemmy with me.
I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.
Still not worth supporting Reddit though.
r/electricians was the funniest thing on Reddit and I miss it dearly
Justrolledintotheshop is pretty fucking funny too.
Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.
For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.
Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.
The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.
I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!
I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !daystrominstitute@startrek.website
Good bot
Amazing Bot!
I always liked the idea of top-level comments being exclusively in-universe, and out-of-universe comments have to be replies to other comments!
That would be better. But I don't think there needs to be a rule at all. Some questions are more suited to Watsonian answers, some to Doylist answers, and users are perfectly capable of judging which is which for themselves. The only rule that was needed was, perhaps, a rule against low-effort responses of either sort.
Totally fair! I hope we get a nice board of that style regardless!
Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.
Best of Redditor Updates 😭
Oh yes! It was my daily dose of wtfness.
/r/bestof was great. Maybe not the actual the best of but it at least had an eclectic mix of interesting comments.
Dadworld is trying to be Daddit. It just needs more from there to join.
Edit: network error posted the same thing multiple times.
The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.
Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.
And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I'm feeling out of the loop
Art isn't my world so I'm sure there's plenty more on lemmyverse.net but I do know !artshare@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) has been getting going a bit recently.
I went to sub to the comicbook feed yesterday for the same reason and was sad to see there didn't look to be an active one
Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃
Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.
The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like "this isn't truly frugal!"). /r/buildapcsales was the same way
The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity
Agreed. I'm really missing the Street Fighter and and related FGC communities from reddit.
AskHistorians
I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here
A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.
A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don't usually encounter in my day to day life so I've been missing that.
I was looking for creepywikipedia but nothing yet and the app I’m using doesn’t seem to have an option for starting communities yet
There's definitely someone pasting creepywikipedia links - just scrolled past a load of them in 'new/all'
aw yesss I knew someone would come through. Thanks!
Personal finance, the EU version of it and the German version of it
Women centric communities
My local city's subreddit. Someone's made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.
I think every city/location sub is like this. It's the only one not governed by interest, but of location.
I'm trying to seed my own, but it's a Sisyphean task. And I know the only way to really get it going is to mention Lemmy IRL.
r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes
My hometown..... great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.
I miss r/badtaxidermy
It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.
The dry-herb vaping communities haven't really transitioned very well, and I'm too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.
r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit
There's a Pokemon Go subreddit called TheSilphRoad that was basically the place for in depth discussion on the game. Such subs here have been quiet and shallow.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !antiwork@lemmy.ca
Oh no the smug Reddit bots are here too
Hello there,
For a prequelmemes replacement, checkout:
A pokemon go info and discussion community.
More r/silph less /go .. some magical middle ground.
Not the first PokeGo reply here, glad to see im not alone in this. Is there a main pokemon community here?
/r/midjourney
There's a few ai generated images communities here. But not as in depth as they were on Reddit. r/stablediffusion had a lot more discussion, not just pictures.
That sub was so fun. How midjourney interpreted architecture as fashion was fascinating
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !imageai@sh.itjust.works
r/PWM_Sensitive
It has less than 1000 members for a very niche topic. With the subreddit so small I doubt it would start here.
Most of the technology subs I followed have migrated to some degree, but I've noticed a lot of "normie" subs are still stuck. For me in particular, r/Writing prompts, r/nosleep, and r/YoutubeHaikus are sorely missed.
The grimdank here is inactive. I miss all my Warhammer 40k faction subs, distressingmemes/surrealmemes, and all the extremely active gamedev subs.
Linguistic humor. I know it exists in the lemmyverse but it's not active
Seems like all the main ones I subscribed to on reddit are already here in some form, I'm hoping AskHistorians comes on over. There's two more extremely niche communities related to US immigration that I'm in which seem unlikely to ever make it here, but we'll see.
I miss communities sharing news about the attack of Russia on Ukraine.
I was mainly browsing these subs: r/ukraine, r/ukrainewarvideoreport, r/combatfootage, r/ncd
Non credible defence seems to be active but the others are pretty empty. These subs had about lets a ton of posts every day
Where's stupidfood? I need ideas for dinner!
r/mls and r/soundersfc
There is an mls community but it doesn't get a lot of traffic.
On a similar note would love to see some NWSL content.
/r/Skincareaddiction, /r/EuroSkincare, various fanfiction subs, /r/Medicine, and a lot more.
Reddit has SO many niche communities that have built up a fairly large amount of information over time. I'm determined to stick to Lemmy but it sucks to lose all that knowledge. It's going to take years for Lemmy to build up.
Dragon Age. I need somewhere to bitch about not having news despite being promised news back in November (like goddamnit Bioware, all we want is a trailer!)
All the niche anime subreddits I frequented. I'm not really a creator myself and I don't think there's enough people migrated to this site for someone else to start posting about PreCure news or similar.
We don't even have a JoJo community here yet.
Surely that's just a matter of time, right? Shitpostcrusaders was pretty fucking big
Yeah, were missing a lot of good communities still.
There are some manga instances but nothing great as of yet, and I assume it's mostly the same for anime, animemes aside. I'm really missing shitpostcrusaders though
Any other particular subs or communities in mind? I could start a few if it matches my interests.
The anime community. Seems awfully dead over here on Lemmy. :/
We badly need more active mods, and an episode discussion posting bot, but I think the volume of discussion there is promising, if not pretty good.
My gripe with !anime@lemmy.ml is that one of their mod (N3DSdude) is a subreddit hoarder on Reddit. Not only is he inactive in most of the subreddit he moderates on Reddit, he's also inactive on Lemmy. This person has no interest in growing the community aside from hoarding as many communities on Lemmy as possible.
There needs to be another c/anime on a different instance.
Well someone seems to be silently modding in this /c
Some redundant episode discussion threads that I posted this morning have disappeared.
Rightfully so, I might add.
So something is going on behind the scenes... which is a good thing.
edit: never mind. Memory fault.
The last action by a moderator on that c/ was from 27 days ago according to their mod log.
It's really unfortunate that the largest anime community on Lemmy is operated by a person who currently "moderates" 292 subreddits on Reddit. And if any reasonable moderator can tell you, there's no way you can possibly be able to split your time across that many subreddits.
In my honest opinion, literally any other anime community is better than the one owned by a subreddit hoarder. This entire idea of hoarding subreddits/communities goes against the single most important principle of Lemmy, which is federation.
But I can't change your opinion. What you do next is up to you.
Oh yeah you're right, and my memory is apparently faulty.
I just want lemmy and /c/anime to succeed so bad...
!anime@lemmy.world (it appears that @vole@lemmy.world might be rolling out their own episode discussion bot, which is something I'm looking forward to)
!anime@ani.social (no activity here, but it looks like a new community and they're looking for a moderator)
I want Lemmy to succeed as well, but not at the cost of growing a community for a subreddit hoarder. The two of us being here is a step forward in ensuring the success of Lemmy.
Yeah, !anime@ani.social doesn't have much activity because I realized that I didn't really want to compete with the already-established ones (!anime@lemmy.ml and !anime@lemmy.world) but I am working on adding other specific/niche communities like !evangelionmemes@ani.social and !animewallpapers@ani.social. I only plan to "start" them though and I want to let other people take over eventually because I couldn't take care of them all on top of the admin work for the instance.
I miss r/marijuanaenthusiasts, which was so named because weed enjoyers had already claimed r/trees. On a search, I see there has already been a "trees" community on Lemmy for a while now (more than one - because of course), but I turned up a big fat goose egg when looking for its arborism-centeic counterpart.
Be the change you want to see in the Fediverse.
/r/fitness. I know it sort of exists but the mods and the daily threads and wiki etc are awesome and I miss it.
There were a few professional psychology related subreddits that had moderation that verified licensure to allow posting only by actually professionals and that was pretty nice
There was also askatherapist which was interesting to get unfiltered client perspectives and offer clinician feedback
Morbidquestions was an interesting sub sometimes. 80% of the time it was stupid edgelord bullshit but sometimes someone would ask a really interesting dark question
Creepywikipedia was a good one and is explained by the name
UK focused casual discussion and news.
There's a very small amount, but nothing like there was on Reddit. It's the only thing I miss.
Got an account on feddit.uk? Local timeline is mostly all UK stuff. Obviously nowhere near reddit in volume, but joining a regional instance for stuff like this is cool for the local timeline stuff alone.
A few subreddits I were in were from Hetzner Online (r/hetzner) and Google Workspace (r/gsuite) which I did not find an equivalent for yet. r/armbian and r/armbianusers were mostly secondary since there was/is no interest in moderating those from the official project side. However was reading there from time to time.
Something to do with systems integration (PLC, fanuc we're a couple subreddits I was subbed to). Also I miss the BMW Z4 sub, seeing new owners pop up, helping others with fixing stuff on their Z4, etc.
Heyyyy, I am waiting for some PLC discussions on lemmy too.
conlangs and neography
Macgaming, realestate, Massachusetts.
They exist on Lemmy but verrrrrry quiet
r/latinopeopletwitter
I miss the sporting communities on subs like r/nrl where there would be thousands of posts on each game thread.
r/RomanceBooks There's not really a replacement for it that I've found on Lemmy yet
Teaching, teachers, TESOL, international teaching. Basically just a support group for struggling teachers.
r/whatisthissnake, r/subgenius, r/herpetology, r/bash (it is here! But it needs more users!), r/gpgpractice (not that I need it but it helps new gpg users), r/gameboy
Probably more but that's all I can think of right now.
There are transplants here on Lemmy, but few subscribers, and few contents. Some likely would remain that way.
It got nuked on reddit, perhaps with good reason, but I do miss watchpeopledie
And the nsfw stuff, even on lemmynsfw.com , is decent, but hasn't quite reached critical mass yet.
I don't use 4chan anymore but I assume /b/ has a rekt thread going 24/7 still
r/doom
r/aeiou
r/okoidawappler
r/spengergasse
The last three are very small comunities, so I'm not surprised, but I don't know why there isn't a larger doom comunity
It's not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.
Trust me it was worse before the reddit refugees came, I would wait a month before scrolling
yeah, that's something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.
Can you please elaborate what you mean by this? Like register at sh.itjust.works, lemmy.world, etc?
Not really, just subscribe to communities outside of your instance.
Like !osvaldo12@lemmy.fancywhale.ca. just subscribing to this from another instance and getting updates on your account regardless where it's from. Sorry if you already knew that.
Gotcha, I understand and will do that!
Use lemmyverse.net
Click the home icon and set your home instance and then search for whatever you want. All links will open in your home instance and you can then just subscribe.
I'm probably missing something easy, but where do you "just subscribe?"
There are a few communities that show up in lemmyverse, but aren't showing up when I search in my app (Jerboa)
Open the link from lemmyverse in a browser tab and click Subscribe. If on mobile you might have to expand the sidebar first. Then go back to Jerboa.
Awesome. Thank you. I was just missing opening the sidebar.
Now I just have to start contributing content to the community I just subscribed to that has 9 users. 🙂
You only need one home instance. So you’re on lemmy.world from what I can tell. If you go to their homepage and login, then click communities at the top, you can browse all the communities (subreddits). Just subscribe to whatever you want! Then later when you’re browsing you can sort by subscribed and it’ll be just those topics
Awesome! Thank you!
Even beyond subscribing to other communities that are also on a Lemmy instance, you can throw a wider net and use some form of fediverse software to interact with different kinds of instances.
I think Lemmy software may be a little more limited in this, as I haven't had much luck subscribing to Mastodon users on my Lemmy accounts, but I can subscribe to Lemmy communities on Mastodon and Calckey. I haven't really done much with it on Mastodon, but on Calckey I can see Lemmy posts from communities I'm subscribed to in my feed, and I can make a top-level reply to the post but I can't read or reply to the comments (unless they're replies to mine) without going to some version of Lemmy to view the rest of the post.
Still, that makes it pretty convenient to scroll through my own Calckey as well as Lemmy, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, and seemingly basically whatever else I could want. Sure, sometimes I have to switch sites to engage with the content, but that's as simple as clicking a link or at worst navigating to the post again on the site. With the pace of most instances, that's not hard to do
It's also not oversaturated, so people will actually see and interact with what you're posting, and yet if you cast a wide enough net you can get continuous content to read if you really want to.
I guess the point is, the more you take it into your own hands the more it can do for you.
No need to register. You can just subscribe to their communities with your current account. That’s part of what makes federation so handy. I’m on Reddthat.com but you can see this comment even though you’re on lemmy.world.
Thanks! Pretty neat!
Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it's always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.
Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.
Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s “every single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.
You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de
Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities
On connect there's an option to hide read posts
Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv
Yep. R/Noita went private and moved to the discord I was already in, but Discord is a terrible replacement for Reddit. I don't have time to read everything in the community to find anything in the community... So now I only have the comment section in FuryForged to find new discoveries in one of the most ridiculously complicated physics simulators I play.
It's an obscure enough community that I doubt it will reopen there, and I'd lose some respect for it if it reopened before Reddit actually listened to a single word we said.
Avid Guild wars 2 player here, I really do miss being on that subreddit. Since reddit was also big, it did allow developers to interact with their players a bit more directly and was a good way to get official info to them.
In this specific case I added browsing the game forums instead of going on reddit, not much has changed except the lessened amount of ads on my screen lol.
Agree. Would be great to have some of them move over, WoW is very quiet here.
I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.
I have those but there seems to be several across multiple instances with no clear winner and all of them are pretty sparse. But I feel like that should improve with time.
Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there
I stumbled upon this one
!catsstandingup@lemmy.world
Thanks! Subbed.
Oneorangebraincell
This is definitely one of my favourites. I feel like I have moved to Instagram for my cat fix for now.
!oneorangebraincell@lemmy.world
Only one I found so far but there is hope
Greebles and hitmanimals are always fun too
For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.
My home page is already in fairly nice shape with “general” interests
Yep definitely feeling this. I’m mostly into flight and space sims… so a niche within a niche. None of these communities made the move over to lemmy with me.
I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.
Still not worth supporting Reddit though.
r/electricians was the funniest thing on Reddit and I miss it dearly
Justrolledintotheshop is pretty fucking funny too.
Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.
For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.
Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.
The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.
I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!
I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.
By the way, there is a Daystrom Institute: https://startrek.website/c/daystrominstitute
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !daystrominstitute@startrek.website
Good bot
Amazing Bot!
I always liked the idea of top-level comments being exclusively in-universe, and out-of-universe comments have to be replies to other comments!
That would be better. But I don't think there needs to be a rule at all. Some questions are more suited to Watsonian answers, some to Doylist answers, and users are perfectly capable of judging which is which for themselves. The only rule that was needed was, perhaps, a rule against low-effort responses of either sort.
Totally fair! I hope we get a nice board of that style regardless!
Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.
Best of Redditor Updates 😭
Oh yes! It was my daily dose of wtfness.
/r/bestof was great. Maybe not the actual the best of but it at least had an eclectic mix of interesting comments.
https://kbin.social/m/bestof is similar.
Yeah, I miss it so much. In a couple years hopefully there'll be something like it here on Lemmy.
Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.
I started posting to eletricians but i am the only one.
I miss all my fun niche subs. Like mirror forsale, were it's just funny pics of people who sell mirrors or take pics in front of mirrors.
Purple coco, sub for plugs in strange places.
Chairsinwater, its chairs in water and the flair was always NSFW.
There more but those are the top ones I miss.
!chairsunderwater@lemmy.world
For some chair action
!chairsunderwater@lemm.ee
There’s this one but not as much activity.
Thank you definitely what I wanted.
You would have loved breadstapledtotrees!
Probably. Had a tree sub I miss and there were tons of others.
Plan to go to Reddit soon to scrap my posts and comments then delete my account.
Think I will make a list of those subs and maybe other Lemmy can help start similar ones here.
Every time someone makes one of these threads, I am reminded anew how weird people's tastes can be 😅
Daddit. It was such a wholesome and helpful community
Dadsplain@lemmy.ca is kinda like daddit. It's starting to have traction.
!Dadsplain@lemmy.ca for the lazy people like me
Dadworld is trying to be Daddit. It just needs more from there to join.
Edit: network error posted the same thing multiple times.
The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.
Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.
And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I'm feeling out of the loop
Art isn't my world so I'm sure there's plenty more on lemmyverse.net but I do know !artshare@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) has been getting going a bit recently.
I went to sub to the comicbook feed yesterday for the same reason and was sad to see there didn't look to be an active one
Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! 😃
Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.
The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like "this isn't truly frugal!"). /r/buildapcsales was the same way
The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity
Agreed. I'm really missing the Street Fighter and and related FGC communities from reddit.
AskHistorians
I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here
A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.
*pops up like Obi-Wan*
Hello there!
I have just the list for you: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/289893
Not who you were replying to, but this is awesome. Thank you!
No worries! If you know of any active groups that are missing please let me know, I do regular searches but obviously things change fast :D
Thank you!
r/NFL, r/CFB, and r/Hockey. They all kinda exist here but are nowhere active enough.. I miss game threads with thousands of comments.
Where do they exist?
!nfl@lemmy.world
!hockey@lemmy.ca
!cfb@lemmy.world
These are the ones I joined
Thank you
Where do they exist?
MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats
A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don't usually encounter in my day to day life so I've been missing that.
I was looking for creepywikipedia but nothing yet and the app I’m using doesn’t seem to have an option for starting communities yet
There's definitely someone pasting creepywikipedia links - just scrolled past a load of them in 'new/all'
aw yesss I knew someone would come through. Thanks!
My local city's subreddit. Someone's made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.
I think every city/location sub is like this. It's the only one not governed by interest, but of location.
I'm trying to seed my own, but it's a Sisyphean task. And I know the only way to really get it going is to mention Lemmy IRL.
r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes
My hometown..... great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.
I miss r/badtaxidermy It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.
The dry-herb vaping communities haven't really transitioned very well, and I'm too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.
r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit
There's a Pokemon Go subreddit called TheSilphRoad that was basically the place for in depth discussion on the game. Such subs here have been quiet and shallow.
Prequelmemes, renfaire, antiwork, bikinibottomtwitter, raimimemes, insanepeoplefacebook, oldpeoplefacebook, Disneyvacation/notdisneyvacation, earthporn, novontextpics, marvelstudios.
https://lemmy.ca/c/antiwork is similar to r/antiwork
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !antiwork@lemmy.ca
Oh no the smug Reddit bots are here too
Hello there, For a prequelmemes replacement, checkout:
!starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
While it's ok, it's not prequel memes. Too many sequel memes for me in there.
stupiddovenests
omg I didn’t even know this was a thing… but knowing doves, it’s immediately self-explanatory
their “nests” are just so bad
I love them so much with their 3 scattered sticks on pavement
WhitePeopleTwitter
There's !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
Isn't that just 90% stolen from BlackPeopleTwitter?
I kinda miss collapse and acab for doom scrolling.
I still miss some of the more niche music subreddits, (updating this as I discover relevant communities)
!stoner_rock@sh.itjust.works just found one, woo!
Www.lemmyverse.net rules when it comes to finding communities
Thanks I just subbed
I miss the data analysis subs
A pokemon go info and discussion community. More r/silph less /go .. some magical middle ground.
Not the first PokeGo reply here, glad to see im not alone in this. Is there a main pokemon community here?
/r/midjourney
There's a few ai generated images communities here. But not as in depth as they were on Reddit. r/stablediffusion had a lot more discussion, not just pictures.
That sub was so fun. How midjourney interpreted architecture as fashion was fascinating
https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai this one is a mix of image ai.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !imageai@sh.itjust.works
r/PWM_Sensitive
It has less than 1000 members for a very niche topic. With the subreddit so small I doubt it would start here.
Most of the technology subs I followed have migrated to some degree, but I've noticed a lot of "normie" subs are still stuck. For me in particular, r/Writing prompts, r/nosleep, and r/YoutubeHaikus are sorely missed.
The grimdank here is inactive. I miss all my Warhammer 40k faction subs, distressingmemes/surrealmemes, and all the extremely active gamedev subs.
!gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone (Lemmy / Kbin) has a list of related communities pinned at https://lemmy.world/post/34963 if that's any help.
Thank you
Linguistic humor. I know it exists in the lemmyverse but it's not active
Seems like all the main ones I subscribed to on reddit are already here in some form, I'm hoping AskHistorians comes on over. There's two more extremely niche communities related to US immigration that I'm in which seem unlikely to ever make it here, but we'll see.
I miss communities sharing news about the attack of Russia on Ukraine. I was mainly browsing these subs: r/ukraine, r/ukrainewarvideoreport, r/combatfootage, r/ncd Non credible defence seems to be active but the others are pretty empty. These subs had about lets a ton of posts every day
Where's stupidfood? I need ideas for dinner!
r/mls and r/soundersfc
There is an mls community but it doesn't get a lot of traffic.
On a similar note would love to see some NWSL content.
/r/Skincareaddiction, /r/EuroSkincare, various fanfiction subs, /r/Medicine, and a lot more.
Reddit has SO many niche communities that have built up a fairly large amount of information over time. I'm determined to stick to Lemmy but it sucks to lose all that knowledge. It's going to take years for Lemmy to build up.
Dragon Age. I need somewhere to bitch about not having news despite being promised news back in November (like goddamnit Bioware, all we want is a trailer!)
All the niche anime subreddits I frequented. I'm not really a creator myself and I don't think there's enough people migrated to this site for someone else to start posting about PreCure news or similar.
We don't even have a JoJo community here yet.
Surely that's just a matter of time, right? Shitpostcrusaders was pretty fucking big
Yeah, were missing a lot of good communities still.
There are some manga instances but nothing great as of yet, and I assume it's mostly the same for anime, animemes aside. I'm really missing shitpostcrusaders though
Any other particular subs or communities in mind? I could start a few if it matches my interests.
The anime community. Seems awfully dead over here on Lemmy. :/
!anime@lemmy.ml is pretty good.
We badly need more active mods, and an episode discussion posting bot, but I think the volume of discussion there is promising, if not pretty good.
My gripe with !anime@lemmy.ml is that one of their mod (N3DSdude) is a subreddit hoarder on Reddit. Not only is he inactive in most of the subreddit he moderates on Reddit, he's also inactive on Lemmy. This person has no interest in growing the community aside from hoarding as many communities on Lemmy as possible.
There needs to be another c/anime on a different instance.
Well someone seems to be silently modding in this /cSome redundant episode discussion threads that I posted this morning have disappeared.Rightfully so, I might add.So something is going on behind the scenes... which is a good thing.edit: never mind. Memory fault.
The last action by a moderator on that c/ was from 27 days ago according to their mod log.
It's really unfortunate that the largest anime community on Lemmy is operated by a person who currently "moderates" 292 subreddits on Reddit. And if any reasonable moderator can tell you, there's no way you can possibly be able to split your time across that many subreddits.
In my honest opinion, literally any other anime community is better than the one owned by a subreddit hoarder. This entire idea of hoarding subreddits/communities goes against the single most important principle of Lemmy, which is federation.
But I can't change your opinion. What you do next is up to you.
Oh yeah you're right, and my memory is apparently faulty. I just want lemmy and /c/anime to succeed so bad...
Some alternatives you might want to consider:
!Anime@kbin.social
!anime@lemmy.world (it appears that @vole@lemmy.world might be rolling out their own episode discussion bot, which is something I'm looking forward to)
!anime@ani.social (no activity here, but it looks like a new community and they're looking for a moderator)
I want Lemmy to succeed as well, but not at the cost of growing a community for a subreddit hoarder. The two of us being here is a step forward in ensuring the success of Lemmy.
Yeah, !anime@ani.social doesn't have much activity because I realized that I didn't really want to compete with the already-established ones (!anime@lemmy.ml and !anime@lemmy.world) but I am working on adding other specific/niche communities like !evangelionmemes@ani.social and !animewallpapers@ani.social. I only plan to "start" them though and I want to let other people take over eventually because I couldn't take care of them all on top of the admin work for the instance.
I miss r/marijuanaenthusiasts, which was so named because weed enjoyers had already claimed r/trees. On a search, I see there has already been a "trees" community on Lemmy for a while now (more than one - because of course), but I turned up a big fat goose egg when looking for its arborism-centeic counterpart.
Be the change you want to see in the Fediverse.
/r/fitness. I know it sort of exists but the mods and the daily threads and wiki etc are awesome and I miss it.
There were a few professional psychology related subreddits that had moderation that verified licensure to allow posting only by actually professionals and that was pretty nice
There was also askatherapist which was interesting to get unfiltered client perspectives and offer clinician feedback
Morbidquestions was an interesting sub sometimes. 80% of the time it was stupid edgelord bullshit but sometimes someone would ask a really interesting dark question
Creepywikipedia was a good one and is explained by the name
UK focused casual discussion and news.
There's a very small amount, but nothing like there was on Reddit. It's the only thing I miss.
Got an account on feddit.uk? Local timeline is mostly all UK stuff. Obviously nowhere near reddit in volume, but joining a regional instance for stuff like this is cool for the local timeline stuff alone.
For anyone else looking for this: !ukcasual@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin)
Feddit.uk has a few local ones
Ididntknowthissubexisted
!noideathissubexisted@lemmy.fancywhale.ca Here, not sure if people are going to use it. Had to put a twist on it... Not to be too derivative.
Oh, that's a nice one, I'll try to create that in my instance to start keeping track of it. I've just created !angryupvote@lemmy.fancywhale.ca
I'm addicted to cats, so the 30000 varieties of cat subs mainly.
Redneck engineering
HighStrangeness :(
I don't miss the woo eaters though.
r/hackintosh NGL, its such an absolute waste of time. But it’s like a puzzle you feel you must complete…
r/bertstrips
etymology and stoicism, but I lack the expertise necessary to moderate or kickstart either
Warriors, watches, and Star Wars
r/anime_titties ( :-D ), r/fountainpens, r/chessbeginners & r/chess (and maaaybe r/anarchychess) r/moebius and r/moebius_giraud_study :-/
Edit: the old r/madlads was nice, if someone could revive it ^
I miss r/worldjerking. To me, it was one of the funniest niche subs on reddit.
Daddit!
Christianity, Gentleman, BulletJournaling
yoyo and riddim dubstep
/r/scalemodel
Not exactly the same and both are pretty quiet atm but there's !modelmakers@lemmy.ml (Lemmy / Kbin) and !nscalemodeltrains@lemmy.world (Lemmy / Kbin) to keep an eye on.
Swords and legorockets
A few subreddits I were in were from Hetzner Online (r/hetzner) and Google Workspace (r/gsuite) which I did not find an equivalent for yet. r/armbian and r/armbianusers were mostly secondary since there was/is no interest in moderating those from the official project side. However was reading there from time to time.
Something to do with systems integration (PLC, fanuc we're a couple subreddits I was subbed to). Also I miss the BMW Z4 sub, seeing new owners pop up, helping others with fixing stuff on their Z4, etc.
Heyyyy, I am waiting for some PLC discussions on lemmy too.
conlangs and neography
Macgaming, realestate, Massachusetts.
They exist on Lemmy but verrrrrry quiet
r/latinopeopletwitter
I miss the sporting communities on subs like r/nrl where there would be thousands of posts on each game thread.
r/RomanceBooks There's not really a replacement for it that I've found on Lemmy yet
AITC and legslcatadvice
r/hockeyplayers
r/hockeyjerseys
r/Canes
r/nin
r/weimaraner
r/pearljam
I'm missing a few, but those are the first that came to mind
Communities You Check Out. Some the old subs on community/magazine style.
I think the link didn't work. Here it is https://lemmy.world/post/983150
r/visiblemending r/fromscratch r/vermiculture r/TwoXChromosomes
Pretty sure I saw a visible mending community recently, let's see what autocompletes...
!visibleMending@kbin.social (Lemmy / Kbin) there you go, turns out it was a magazine! Looks like it's new and needs content, go go go :)
You may also like !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works (Lemmy / Kbin), similar vibe.
Wow thanks so much!
jailbreak, PS4deals/PS5deals
Teaching, teachers, TESOL, international teaching. Basically just a support group for struggling teachers.
r/whatisthissnake, r/subgenius, r/herpetology,
r/bash(it is here! But it needs more users!), r/gpgpractice (not that I need it but it helps new gpg users), r/gameboyProbably more but that's all I can think of right now.
There are transplants here on Lemmy, but few subscribers, and few contents. Some likely would remain that way.
It got nuked on reddit, perhaps with good reason, but I do miss watchpeopledie
And the nsfw stuff, even on lemmynsfw.com , is decent, but hasn't quite reached critical mass yet.
I don't use 4chan anymore but I assume /b/ has a rekt thread going 24/7 still
r/doom
r/aeiou
r/okoidawappler
r/spengergasse
The last three are very small comunities, so I'm not surprised, but I don't know why there isn't a larger doom comunity