Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.
What I haven't found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.
Itβs mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first
The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more
Well, youβve encouraged me to make a comment! And given me a great community to watch Lemmy grow!
That's great, happy I could help!
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Individual game subs. Even a niche game usually had just enough of an active community that I could talk about it get help with pretty much anything.
The generic "Gaming" and "PC gaming" and even "BoardGames" crowd is here; but they're mostly good for general news, not discussion of specific games. If I want discussion about lore in Baldi's Basics, for example, I ain't getting it in the general communities.
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Transphobia free content is what I miss most. Ever since the reddit influx, there's been a huge rise in transphobia
I've removed one of the responses to this comment due to rule #2. It's a fine line and I'm choosing to err on the side of caution and supportiveness.
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Communities for people with rare disorders or illnesses. And plant communities for specific plant groups, so not plants in general. But most of all, i miss the fact that i could search for very specific content to see what creative ideas other people had on how to do certain things. Or people who shared many years of experience and experimenting.
I think in general we just need more people.. There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.
I miss having large and active subreddits for the sports teams I follow. They were my primary source of news for the teams and games at threads were great.
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I miss communities that I can ask a question to. When I have a problem with a plant, or a legal issue in Japan, or a question about bike brakes... It's nice to have someone to talk to about it that knows more than I do.
Centralized tv show discussions with episode discussion threads. That hasnβt happened yet :/
Tears of the kingdom content. Gimme those ridiculous builds
A lot of country- or city-specific subreddits either aren't on here or are quite inactive. To be honest they were mostly cesspits on Reddit so maybe it's no bad thing but you occasionally found useful information there.
Other than that, there were a few subreddits that were good for recipe ideas, like /r/EatCheapAndHealthy. /r/ZeroWaste was good too, on occasion.
In general, non-tech related communities don't seem to have migrated over as much. Most of the subreddits I followed were related to technology in some way and now have pretty active communities on Lemmy.
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Communities for specific consoles, like r/PS3, r/3DS, r/Vita, very helpful for keeping up to date with new plugins and stuff
The ones here either donβt exist, or do but isnβt active at all
I miss the idea of /r/outside. A kind of role play in a fun , not too abstract context.
I mostly miss my niche subreddits. If the subreddit only has 20-30 active users, that means 1-2 people hopped to Lemmy who might be interested in it.
surreal memes
You wanna start it? Iβll help you gather content for it and allβ¦that was the only meme sub I ever liked. It spoke to the inner fifth dimensional Accordian Man inside me.
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There's always late night Imgur.
Doesn't seem like there are many economy/financial/stock focused communities here yet
In Terms of subreddits I haven't found bikinibottomtwitter yet, can't even tell if it exists because the search is broken on every android client and the desktop version too.
You can use Lemmyverse: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=bikini+bottom+
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world
Legaladvice, askdocs, hiphopheads, and all the covid care communities like masks4all, crboxes, longcovid subreddit
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I don't watch youtube. My inline video contents mostly come from R... Vow, I miss those; they have some really interesting videos I keep forwarding to people.
Inline video is a thing on Lemmy, dont ask me how I know but it is now possible with certain hosting sites.
Virtual Reality and related subs are pretty small/nonexistent here still.
/r/2007scape, /r/asoiaf, /r/berserk, /r/fibromyalgia, also my big unix multireddit!
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I miss r/conspiracy. The more crazy and outlandish the conspiracy, the more they believed it was real. Interesting people watching but also entertaining to mess with.
Edit: I think they had a convention. The mere existence I found amusing.
Edit2: Shit like:
"We should create the Tax Riot Party, and not pay taxes, and then when they come after us for not paying taxes, we sue the government on the basis of immorality, and then demand direct democracy where we get to allocate our tax dollars into the government programs that we see fit."
Just move to the south. I dropped some stuff at the dump and the dumpmaster was talking at me about how 9/11 was actually holograms and his uncles friend worked for Linden Johnson, so he knows all about the secret alien projects and that we went to war in the middle east to locate a stolen rage/zombie virus that Russia developed and lost.
Yup, I live in the South. It's like a minimum security psych ward with a Dollar Tree inside.
For lack of a better term, girly content, and parent content. I miss A Bra That Fits, Big Boob Problems, Makeup Addiction, Babybumps, New Parents. And all those small weird (more or less) niche stuff like Minithreats or Accidental Swastika or Moldy Interesting.
But I am still getting used to Lemmy and figuring out how this works, so maybe I have just not found the right communities yet. Searching for them and adding them is so confusing.
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