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!

  • @twistedtxb
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    641 year ago

    Lemmy currently lacks the userbase for niche, specific communities, or subregional communities

    • 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      181 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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        161 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.

  • TheWoozy
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    361 year ago

    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.

  • ugjka
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    341 year ago

    I feell like that the problem is just discovery

    • @WalkableProgrammer
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      141 year ago

      I agree, the communities are going started but there’s no way to organically find them

      • @soupspoon
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        61 year ago

        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

      • ren (a they/them)
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        41 year ago

        Fwiw. I searched 2 ways. Searching “ALL” I first searched for the subreddits I subscribed to on Reddit, usually partial word searches.

        Then I searched ALL by topic very broadly, like “music”.

        For both searches, I joined communities liberally that had a decent amount of subscribers. Figured those with momentum will probably rise up more over time. So far so good!

      • @Slowy
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        11 year ago

        Some of the apps in development like Memmy have search functions

  • Ving Thor
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    271 year ago

    One that I miss is “r/sex” for discussions and support about sex.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 year ago

      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.

    • @WhoRoger
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      161 year ago

      It shows that these are the communities of geeks, doesn’t it

    • @kadu
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      1 year ago

      Shameless plug of my own community, but I created: lemmy.world/c/lemmyafterdark for this purpose, but I wanted to avoid some of the downfalls of the Reddit equivalent.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 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.

  • @Duchess
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    191 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

    • @mnoom
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      51 year ago

      what was r/creepywikipedia? it’s private right now

      • @Duchess
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        31 year ago

        pretty much exactly what it sounds like. people would browse wikipedia and post the creepiest pages they found. like, for example, the aztec death whistle.

    • JockJam DoorSlam
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      31 year ago

      I do not have the skill or bandwidth to mod a community, but if someone makes creepywikipedia I would absolutely contribute to it!

    • win98
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      11 year ago

      What’s the nosleep one? I miss NoSleep

      • @Duchess
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        11 year ago

        It’s called /c/lemmyscareyou (sorry, idk how to link to it on mobile)

        • win98
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          deleted by creator

        • win98
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          11 year ago

          I’ve found it, thank you! Let’s hope it gets just as active and the spooky vibe going

  • @[email protected]
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    191 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.

  • HobbitFoot
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    171 year ago

    I look at it as Lemmy isn’t large enough to support smaller communities unless they come here as is.

  • BuxtonWater
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    171 year ago

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

    • ShittyKopper [they/them]
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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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      21 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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    161 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos

    Creepypasta

    SCP

    Web Novels

    Light Novels translation

    Anime and Manga

    • @VcioOP
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      i also world like a comics community.

  • @[email protected]
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    I miss some dedicated meme subreddits:

    • prequelmemes
    • sequelmemes
    • lotrmemes

    They were always good for a laugh.

    Oh! And highqualitygifs.

    • @Duchess
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      21 year ago

      There’s a general star wars memes community if that helps?