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Active niche communities

I miss reddit from 10 years ago.

Lemmy is nice.

Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don't have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.

I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss than politics or what the best linux distro is 😮‍💨.

Active posts that aren't about linux or politics.

The amount of content was nice from reddit. Eventually, I'm sure this platform will get there.

Active communities that aren't about Linux

Content, comments

Active communities for niche topics, like His Dark Materials, or Would You Rather, and the poll feature, which I used extensively. Yes, I know you can link to external platforms, but integrating it into the post was much nicer.

r/AskHistorians

The hyperspecific interests mainly. The wealth of obscure info too.

Really just the quantity of people, especially on ask subs. Lemmy just feels incredibly empty. And the breadth of topics people discuss here is extremely small.

A less specific demographic, which is a little ironic when referring to reddit. But lemmy is even more a subset of a subset of a subset of people than reddit is, and it gets a bit old at times.

Politics everywhere, and most of it is just circlejerking over something trump is doing and everyone agreeing how terrible he / his supporters / his handlers / the broligarchs are. There isn't much discourse to be had when everyone on here already agrees, and I don't mean I miss right wing voices. Just that I don't need to talk about politics with people who think virtually exactly the same as me about these things. And I'm also not an american.

Then there is an annoying flood of trans content, which is great that it has its place here, but for the most part doesn't interest me beyond a general sentiment of support for people to live their life how they wish. I want more diversity in my feed.

Not in necessarily in opinions but in topics

I miss... the idea of it.

Askhistorians and other academic subreddits, along with specific fan communities. Lemmy is just too small to support a good community for a smaller video game, for example. That's pretty much it though I was surprised at how little I missed reddit after switching

The breadth of the content

Interaction on posts that have been up for more than 8 hours

• Personal insults.
• The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
• People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
• Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.

But tbh I don't really miss any of those things, cuz they're all here on lemmy too.

Diversity. People on R were less uniform.

Maybe because they were more.

When there was only one allowed opinion in a sub, then you could often find another sub with the same topics allowed, but the only one allowed opinion was another one.

The only communities that I still regularly browse on Reddit are the regional communities for the place I live currently and places I've lived previously. Those seem to have little to no activity around here. I no longer participate in them on Reddit, only lurk.

Larger population of users = more content and more communities

Specific TV show episode threads. I loved reading what people thought, things I'd missed, etc.

The subreddits for individual sports teams, posting comments in game threads with a hundred other fans of your team from around the world.

Working mobile apps. My Jerboa mobile app for Lemmy works great, but if they hadn't have broken all the mobile apps and acted like such shitheads, I wouldn't even be here :)

Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy

The number of users, you can get answers to anything there.

r/simpleliving or, more exactly, a more active version of it since the community is there: !simpleliving@lemm.ee. And more people participating in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community too but hopefully we're slowly getting there.

The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I'm getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.

The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn't even enough because my tastes are.... Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I'm confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.

That being said, there's still so much more to love on fediverse that I don't need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like "the only good nazi..." and people will know what I'm talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It's just a much more grown up place here, and I'm much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I've noticed this in other people, too, that there's far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.

r/notinteresting being everything but not interesting

A balance between communities. There are communities that are very active and fill my feed. Although those community are OK, I am much more interested in some smaller and niche communities. Those get lost in the feed.

The Colorado avalanche subreddit having more than 2 people

AskHistorians

I don't miss anything from reddit, I can still go there if I want. If anything, lemmy still feels underpopulated if I only browse the stuff I'm subscribed to.

I still browse and almost caught myself commenting recently. I quickly backspaced and exited out and came over here where I feel safe posting comments and interacting.

Subs/communities for actively watched shows. I find myself needing to browser redlib for insights on, most recently, the white lotus and the last of us

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