Ask Lemmy

A bit clichê, but all of them

The main thing I miss from reddit is communities for specific games. It was nice that, whenever I started playing some game, there would be a subreddit for it where I could get advise and see what other people were doing with the game. There are very few on Lemmy. It's just too snall for that.

Niche interests. Unfortunately Lemmy doesn't have enough of a population to get enough people/content for specific niches. Some things I specifically followed on Reddit were: fight stick controllers, Street Fighter 6, Wildrift game, dad/parenting communities, SBC gaming. On Lemmy there either isn't any activity at all for these, or too little to have regular content.

TBH I think it needs more mods/participants in existing communities before it starts sharding into more.

In other words, it’s the same problem I observe in many software dev communities: instead of building a new wheel, it’d be better to contribute to existing ones (and facilitate that discovery for others).

And, on that note, I think Lemmy needs better default algorithms to surface them.

!peertube@lemmy.world

It's doing well but I would love to see more videos without the need for YouTube.

We have enough memes and politics and definitely US politics for three lifetimes.

Here's a bunch that I enjoyed, or wish for, or just found by browsing the community list:

• !europe@feddit.org and local country subs in English
• !historymemes@lemmy.world
• !sauna@suppo.fi
• !assholedesign@lemmy.world
• !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
• !gameart@sopuli.xyz
• !pkd@lemmy.world - Included mostly because I had a chuckle from the name, but I'd be interested for real too

Solarpunk and anything that is systems-minded and constructive.

There is a TIFU community and nobody posts there

Seems like people on Lemmy are too competent for it :(

I generally don't miss Reddit, but I do miss all the art subs. All the "imaginary" subs. ImaginaryBattlefields. ImaginaryCastles. Etc etc. 80s fantasy art subs. I like having a fair amount of art in my feeds as I scroll and I don't really get that with Lemmy. I am too lazy and distracted to create and moderate these subs myself.

Don't know how to link a community but I'd like more people posting on artshare and other art comms.

Also on the soulslike community :D

Edited to add some links :

!artshare@lemmy.world

!digitalart@lemmy.world

!eurographicnovels@piefed.social

!soulslike@lemmy.zip

I'll be that guy:

The NSFW communities. So far if I want to see anything new I'd still have to resort to reddit which also is becoming emptier by the minute, it'd be nice if we start moving those communities here

Cast iron

Hot sauce recipes

Conspiracy weirdness, ghosts and shit

...maybe not in that order.

Data hoarding. !datahoarder@lemmy.ml exists but there isn't much activity.

I've been posting things I find interesting to !discuss@discuss.online. I'm trying to grow it as a community that can have conversations about a broad range of interesting topics, without having to subscribe to a bunch of narrowly-focused communities. Think something like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but without the tech bro mindset.

I really miss the highstrangeness community, imo it desperately needs a replacement.

I need intelligent UAP discussion again dammit!

I was looking for some eyebleach earlier and was disappointed to see how quiet all of the eyebleach communities are.

I'd like to see at least one of the music theory communities take off. The subreddit had a lot going for it, but it was extremely toxic in some ways. I'd like to see a nicer version of it here.

Local ones, but that probably depends on way more users joining for it to be useful.

This place is pretty neat and I’d like to see it become more active. If there’s enough demand for a community about a topic I know a fair bit about, I might just start it, or at least hope to encourage others to do the same :)

I used to like reading the medium - long stories on the malicious complience subreddit. !maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world just never really took off here.

I'd love to see the canning one be more active! Gardening has been more active than I thought it would be.

JapanFinance, RideItJapan, JapanLife/JapanResidents -- the problem is, without the knowledge of people who have lived here for a long time, it's not that useful if created. The vast amount of experience of people with starting a business, dealing with visa stuff, dealing with legal stuff, etc. is what makes those reddit communities valuable. Some of us tried to get people to move, some created similar communities, but people didn't really move.

Philosophy or at least philosophy memes.

Also, more signposting and less doom. All of my algorithms are so depressing already.

Wouldn't mind seeing more activity in sysadmin because it is the only subreddit I use.

A big chunk of my time on reddit was just chatting with sports fans in local team subs during games and in league wide subs about current events.

rpg ones both mmo and pnp. I wish the communities were here. I also wish orgs would run their own domains for their members. like the world science fiction society or local makerspaces.

I would like to see a subLemmy about making cheese and yogurt

I wish the following were more active:

• !truecomics@midwest.social
• !streetwear@lemmy.world
• !vintageads@sh.itjust.works
• !catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world

if anyone's looking for a community to start posting to, I encourage them to give one of those a shot.

I wish people would crosspost more or link to other related communities.

More "curated" communities (like CuratedTumblr) that have higher submission standards. One of my biggest gripes with Lemmy in recent months is the amount of low effort "updoots to the left" memes and commonly reposted material.

Communities related to my local city. On Reddit it’s how I found out about some events and local issues.

I just want the user base to grow enough to support small niche communities.

That was Reddit at its best and Lemmy just doesn’t have the user base to support it yet

A whowouldwin community.

Battleboarding communities draw a lot of engagement and help retain new users among the younger demographics.