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 ?

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      oh i feel this so hard. i hope the mods are collating their best answers and saving the info to somehow bring over here.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        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

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          I believe you can just create your own Magazine (sub) if there isn’t currently one out there! Start that bad boy up!

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Yeah this is fine if you have time to moderate a community or don’t care about it being moderated.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          that’s a great idea. they must know about the fediverse’s existence, but they may not know that Lemmy is actually viable.

    • Cosmic Frog
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      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.

  • TheWoozy
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    There are enough communities, there just aren’t enough posts and comments.

    Most posts on the communities I see are just links with one or two comments.

  • ugjka
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    171 year ago

    I feell like that the problem is just discovery

  • BuxtonWater
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    151 year ago

    I’ll say it for everyone (and myself), NSFW communities. Reddit is still effectively king for that, at least for now.

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      There is a fair few out there, one main issue is that you can’t even get a list of nsfw communities without being logged in on the instances they’re created in.

      IIRC the only instance that patches that check out and is remotely discoverable because of it is lemmynsfw. Whatever communities other instances have are basically hidden to all but the select few who know about them / have an account there and goes to look them up.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I may be in the minority here, but I don’t miss the sexual NSFW content from reddit at all. I was getting tired of seeing OF accounts posting semi-flirtatious things in completely unrelated subs in order to garner attention.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It was totally new to me that people use Reddit for porn. Actually, I only realised that because they were complaining about the supposed lack of these communities on Lemmy. So, you aren’t really speaking for everyone…

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    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.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Programming Languages and Compilers. To be clear: The former exists on programming.dev, but there’s a serious lack of activity.

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    I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:

    • prequelmemes
    • sequelmemes
    • lotrmemes

    They were always good for a laugh.

    Oh! And highqualitygifs.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    personally i’m missing all the horror content. there’s a nosleep replacement here that’s gaining traction but stuff like /r/wtf, /r/oddlyterrifying, /r/creepywikipedia etc are sorely missed right now

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        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.