What are some reddit communities you wish to see live and more active on lemmy?
I personally can't wait to see communities like r/hiphopheads, r/internetisbeautiful, r/listentothis, r/battlestations... join lemmy and become as active as they are on reddit. what are some of y'all fav?
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned my absolute fav /r/askhistorians
Please PLEASE get this one up and running! That place is a treasure trove of information. So much so, they should have their own website while maintaining a lemmy domain. That info should be disseminated across multiple platforms so it isn't lost.
The mods seem to not like Lemmy specifically but I don’t know what their plan is. It seems like they’re just gonna be in this restricted mode forever. Makes it easier to leave Reddit though.
Maybe the Ask history mods don't understand how to use it yet? This platform does take a bit of learning, but every update seems like it increases the end user experience
r/AskScience too
Ask Science exists! It's on the lemmy.world instance
/c/[email protected]
Excellent, thank you.
And it needs to be well modded.
I miss women centric subs, especially thes ones with a mix of posts that foster discussion, memes, and support such as witchesvspatriarchy
Best of redditor updates because I want my stories lol
Specific subs for shows because I like reading episode discussions, often someone catches something I missed that gives more context or they catch clues and foreshadowing. Theories too. Or just seeing if anyone else had same thoughts I did! I think it will be a long time before lemmy is big enough to be close to that, and will probably only be newer shows.
Also just the sheer volume of content produced every day. I'll hold strong though and not give reddit any traffic. Reddit was fantastic as a lurker, posting most anywhere large felt like whispering into a void. Lemmy is great for actually participating, I think it will be a long time yet until it's as fun for lurking.
Same here - I hope more female-oriented communities get going. WitchesVsPatriarchy, TrollXChromosomes, and all the chaos of the Netflix Cinematic Universe reality shows were a blast on Reddit.
I have found [email protected] so far!
Thank you that is a great start! I have quite a few saved memes to start contributing as well. It doesn't seem quite the same so I hope we have something else soon. I would be a terrible mod and still confused by most of this fediverse thing otherwise I would make what I want to see.
You aren't the first to mention the women-central communities. I did start [email protected] but I'm not sure what else to start and even if I'm the right person to mod it - it would probably need a team. Any ideas or suggestions? What kind of community would you like to visit?
Health-related communities, particularly those for specific medical conditions. Those are the communities that really become a lifeline for people, help them through diagnoses or just difficult times, and can serve as an excellent resource. I was active on r/diabetes_t1 on Reddit and am trying to get a community started here on Lenny.world (!T1diabetes).
Agreed. I found an asthma one so I’m trying to be active there every day. I need to find endometriosis, bunions, gastric surgery 😂. I’m a total crock health wise and these chats help
Yes! Also kinda related, I liked r/SocialAnxiety and r/Dyslexia. It's a place where we can go and help/encourage eachother.
Yes these are exactly the kinds of communities I’m hoping will get replicated on Lemmy.
Second this! It was great hearing the different treatments people tried, doctor recommendations… having that safe space to feel sorry for oneself about the side effects or symptoms. I could see it happening here when Lemmy grows in numbers a bit.
Slightly related: someone needs to organize a celebrity AMA on Lemmy to let people know that there’s a new sheriff in town (or something like that).
The music production ones r/ableton r/audioengineering r/mixingandmastering r/maschine
yes add to the list: r/musicmaking, r/headphones, r/audiophiles, r/indieheads, r/WeAreTheMusicMakers, r/drumkits, r/bandcamp, r/vintageobsecura and I'll be the happiest kid lurking around here
I simultaneously want a headphones comm because I love headphones, and don't want a headphones comm because I need to stop fucking buying headphones.
Lemmy.film has a headphones community but it’s just starting out.
+1 for WeAreTheMusicMakers
There are a few music production communities around: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=musicproduction
None of them are super active, and I'm not sure more granular communities would get a critical mass yet... but yeah I'd love an active ardour community or an x32 community.
There's 2 smaller instances specifically for musicians. I would keep an eye on their communities.
lemmy.studio
waveform.social
Both have an Ableton /c, but not much content yet
Also, just to throw this out there for anyone who isn't aware; some fine folks have made a site where you can search for communities across all instances. Check it out!
browse.feddit.de
super useful!! thank you!!
I just want to see enough folks from some of the gaming communities move over: (Most of these have small communities already, I just want growth!)
2007scape for the memes
Satisfactory for the incredible creativity
Nomanssky for the same reason ^
Forzahorizon for the weekly challenge discussions and screenshots
FFXIV for the community ‘vibe’
Really any game with a fun online community, these are just a few of the ones I enjoy.
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Yeah, Satisfactory for sure and satisfactoryporn for the incredible builds
I wish there there were more parenting comms. You have a few low activity general parenting comms and a surprising amount of healthy dad comms (go dads!), but you don't have the break outs. I guess I'll shill my instance where I'm hoping more parents will pop up to
There are some more, but those are the ages I have kids in lol.
The community I miss the most by far is my bumper group. General parenting communities are great, but I loved checking in with my fellow Feb 2023 parents during a middle of the night feed.
Ah man, the bumper groups. I think we'd need a whole instance just dedicated to that. Actually can you even make communities private?
My kid is old enough that I've faded from the bump groups, but they were a lifeline and godsend when I had a newborn.
I haven't seen Photoshopbattles yet in my community perusing. Def one of my faves.
The women’s communities. Everything from trollx to girlgamers to tallgirls
I also miss femdomcommunity because it’s one of the few sensible kink communities on the internet
This! Lemmy feels like such a sausage party right now.
Yeah like I can appreciate that it’s nowhere near as misogynistic as old Reddit was, but also I just want more women here
Excuse me, I identify as a hotdog
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Yes, I absolutely loved listentothis. I think it was sort of losing user interaction towards the end but it was so great to comb through previous years to find great music.
We should definitely get another one up and running!
I'll really miss the location specific subreddits, those were super useful when travelling to find stuff only local redditors knew about. It helped get you off the beaten path.
Actually just realized there is a listentothis community already, woo!
Link?
https://lemm.ee/c/listentothis
Normalnudes
IntermittentFasting
NoSleep
Written erotica, any of them.
The general "Music" and "Movie" threads because I did discover stuff on them as well as being able to suggest stuff.
But have been satisfied with some of these that are still small but growing - curlyhair, science fiction, cocktails (mine now), fermentation and sourdough. And overall happy to give up the faster moving subs and be here for the beginning time.
r/writtingprompts by far my favorite community of all time and I hope it makes a resurgence
Other ones would be r/the10thdentist, r/nottheonion and r/askhistorians (they probably will never join since they have their own website to fall back own if it all goest to shit)
Lastly r/manga, I said this one as separate because I have seen a few but the community is not there yet, especially lacking features like what are you reading this month and at MOST having 15 subscribers
I think there's already a couple writing prompts instances, you can search for them. They popped up when I searched for general writing instances to follow.
r/therewasanattempt
Non-English subs. They are starting but it will take a while to catch up.
I miss my hydrohommies
As for the good news : https://sopuli.xyz/c/hiphopheads
ayy let's go. thank you!! did not know it existed and I hope it gets as big as r/HHH
Tip of my tongue.
/r/resume was great, as well /r/cscareeradvice, and really any career centric subs. Being able to bounce career questions off of others is an absolute gold mine of information that only serves to forward the field.
I'd hope they come here but get a refresh. /r/cscareeradvice was basically just a circlejerk of you have to grind leetcode and work at faang or you're useless.
Very true, pretty indicative of the whole industry though. I'm glad I'm already in it, especially in a good position as a software engineer, but after $1k spent in certifications, ~600 resumes sent out, and completely revamping my LinkedIn, etc. It almost feels like you really do have to have worked at FAANG as a senior engineer to even be noticed.
It's all way too gatekeepy as a whole.
All of them.
FFXIV, Steam Deck, ARAD
There's a steam deck community on sopuli fyi
Jumping in to say it seems pretty active, too. I wonder if it's worthwhile to ask people who posted guides on reddit to bring them over this way?
You could always share them on lemmy. Just make sure to credit the author.
For me, sports communities. Game day threads are a blast.
So much this! Plus being able to discuss a free agent pickup or trade. I need that back.
The other communities i miss were my local state and city.
Really hoping that the NFL season brings more activity to Lemmy for this reason
Lemmy needs more comics
Ideally all of the weird niche ones, like cheesemaking, niche japanese exclusive video games, and local ( city/regional) subs to name a few.
The anime and manga communities are totally silent on Lemmy. Would be great if we can have some weeb juice flowing here as well.
Yeah I really just want those for the discussion threads and news
r/wicked_edge, r/nosurf, r/meditation
WickedEdge already exists on this platform, but it's not active and doesn't have the same community. These niche communities will not be the same as those on Reddit since many of the people are normies and don't care at all about Reddit's shitty platform. I would open some communities on my own, but I'm not an expert in these fields, like for example in shaving, and I couldn't be of any help for other people.
I'm missing communities for specific games. Starcraft, stormgate, path of exile and the kind.
I'm sure more of them will start popping up/getting more active of the trend of people joining continues.
I sorely miss /r/PCGaming.
I know there are a few on here and I am going to try to post on them to try to get it going. Still a long way to go though.
It'll take time.
All the self-help ones. Social Skills, Adulting, RBN...
My ultimate guilty pleasure -- gossip and snark communities.
I used to have such good conversations with my husband over AITA posts. We especially loved when our verdict ran counter to the circle jerk.
Towards the end, the ones I read felt blatantly obvious just from the title. "Hey guys I said, "That's not ok!" to my MIL because she drop kicked my toddler in the face for crying, AITA?"
Seriously, what am I supposed to mindlessly read during lunch now?
I fail to comprehend why there's no community dedicated to "Rock" music. This network, after all, was named after one of the most iconic rock stars of our era...
If there is something you want, create it. Lemmy is new, and there are not a ton of people posting. Someone will need to do it first.
I'd love to! I wanted to create a greyhounds community but couldn't figure out how to do so after Jerboa updated.
r/jeopardy, especially if former contestants are involved in the community like they are on Reddit.
Ugh I was just looking for a jeopardy community!
I don't mean to be a Debbie downer but even I have trouble enjoying Lemmy because of some of it's problems/quirks. I don't think it'll be anywhere near as popular as alternatives with those problems present. I hate it but that's how I feel. I hope it gets better
Which alternatives do you recommend? I've tried a few but most seem to have issues as well, or in case of Tildes, are invite only
Like what problems(network errors?), and what do you prefer?
Pages not loading or error'ing out, general usability stuff, like pictures in the feed snapping back to small/icon size causing the feed to jump around, posts opening in the same window and going back takes me all the way to the top/start of my feed, the confusion around interoperability between instances (can I just log in with my account on another instance? Do i need a new account?), etc.
I'm on mobile, so maybe that's a large part of my complaint, but when ya come from Reddit, it's hard to not see things Reddit does well that you miss.
It's also very likely some of this is simply user error, I am not an expert, but I feel like if it's confusing or not intuitive for me, then it's probably room for improvement.
Edit: Idk what changes were made in the most recent update to Lemmy but a lot of my complaints here no longer appear to me occurring, so that's great news!!
/r/cptsd![email protected]Edit: also
/r/fixit or alike[email protected]/r/FindAReddit
/r/WowThisSubExists[email protected]/r/ActLikeYouBelong !!
I miss it too. There is https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
It's not as active, of course, but that will come with time. The best thing you can do is help build the community.
Aw yes, thankyou! :)
/r/CombatFootage and specifically the Ukraine War subs.
Yup. The only thing I am still doing on Reddit is following the Ukraine threads. So far the only discussions I've found on Lemmy have been about 90% Tankie brain rot.
Yes! Those are the only way I've been able to get real-time info!
/dragonsfuckingcars and /r/carsfuckingdragons I just need them to exist
Some of the jokes were nice - with the best laughs coming from the replies and the bad puns.
did you hear about the guy who stole a calendar? He got 12 months! Talk about a timely heist!
Worst pun I can do. That'll be 200 schrute bucks.
Interesting, one of my least favorite things about reddit was all of the low-effort joke replies. I could happily go the rest of my life without seeing another pun.
Over obsessing with puns is a recognised psychological issue...
At school, I remember the time I was jealous of our 'class clown' who was genuinely pretty hilarious every time he opened his mouth and extremely popular (especially with the girls). The worst thing to do is to try to emulate that (go home, study a ton of jokes... I'm sure everyone did that at some stage).
I think one of the lessons I worked hard to teach my son is that you shouldn't make an effort to be funny, because that's mostly just four-king annoying. Since then, his jokes come less frequently - but with higher hit-rates.
But for sure, Reddit seems to have an average mentality of 6 to 12.
The worst trap to get into is to try to make jokes about unemployed people - because they never work.
r/babyelephantgifs
r/hardcore, r/bodybuilding, and r/steroids are the ones I'm missing the most. Instagram is my only source for hardcore punk now. I second r/hiphopheads too! I wish I had the time to moderate so I could start them myself.
/c/[email protected]
It's one of the biggest subs on Reddit, but having trouble taking off here.
Same thing for every single-game community. Dota's deserted. Also things like patientgamers is lowering in activity.
![email protected] is kept alive by me. Come join if you don't want it to be as deserted :)
Most game communities sucked anyway. They just got filled with useless self highlight clips and not actual content.
Not every community is as garbage as Overwatch's. Stardew Valley's and Hollow Knight's are super chill.
Arts (Printmaking, Graffiti, sculpture, calligraphy, typography, design), and all the SFW porn subs.
Also, I'm really amazed that https://lemmy.world/c/sourdough is already quite active.
they do have some good starters in that sub
Bandnames
Cyanotypes
Disneyvacation
Freecompliments
Genx
Interestingasfuck
Piratemetal
Selfawarewolves
Workreform
I already formed the ![email protected] a while ago but it really isn't that active unfortunately.
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: ![email protected]
I'm pending subscribe now!
Longreads
There is a long reads lemmy! /c/longreads and /c/reads (i subbed both but longreads has more content but still not much content) I was just there and i'm too dumb and new to link it properly but i found it by seaching "all" from my lemmy.world account.
I just read a great piece about the people who do the manual work of annotating objects in images which are then used to train AI mods. read another about the nation of tuvalu and it getting destroyed by climate change.
Oh those must be new because they didn’t exist in the last two weeks. Thank you!
sure, also there is a community called New Communities i subbed to and that's helped a lot!
I like to live vicariously and lurk in city subreddits. (Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, etc...if it's a city, I will lurk). It's a little lonely over here in that regard.
r/skookum https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/skookum
(Shamless plug)
Gonna hop on the shameless plug train r/NoLawns https://slrpnk.net/c/nolawns ![email protected]
Astrophotography Printedcircuitboard
r/intp. Also miss the active python and data analysis subs, I know there are python communities here but they seem quiet.
squaredcircle
Yes please.
Headphones is prob the biggest. City-specific ones would be nice but, seems unlikely
Certainly not the meme ones.
Seriously tho, Sysadmin and career related stuff in general, and fantasyfootball
I would love to see GameDeals and googleplaydeals on lemmy.
Well, you're in luck. There already are lemmy versions of those subs!
![email protected]
![email protected]
![email protected]
r/personalfinance was a great one to read about financial situations and see advice given for each. Doesn't seem like c/personalfinance has had any posts for days.
A lot of the broader interest subs I followed have either migrated over or have local equilvalents.
I had a couple niche ones I miss. I work in hospitality so talesfromthefrontdesk is definitely one I miss, and I haven't seen a good version here as of yet.
Specific game subs are not as popular here yet, but honestly I am not sure how much I really need that. Rimworld is probably the only game I keep coming back to often enough to justify it, and I largely use discord for that. Only thing I use discord for really.
/r/spacex
r/credibledefense
/r/videos that's where I used to get my daily shot of youtube. But with youtube starting to block ablocker it might be good for me to quit.
/r/fixedbytheduet would be nice as well, but lemmy doesn't allow uploading videos :(
Anything related to electronic music! I haven't found any. Anyone seeing Zeds Dead this week?
I feel like ‘fan’ communities like Star Wars and Halo have a better chance at being positive communities with constructive discussion on lemmy because the community here seems like they want to genuinely care about discussion. Those types communities got to a pretty awful state on Reddit because the loudest ‘critic’ would always receive the most upvotes, despite usually having overly nitpicky and poorly thought out criticism.
Some of the smaller subs I used to frequent don't see as much traffic as I would like. Like cycling and edc. I just have to be the change I want to see. I will I swear, just need to fine some spare time.
Similar issue for me. I’m feel I’m missing or haven’t found ones like the neurodiversity subs, specific medical ones like endometriosis, parenting ones, r/Ireland is probably the biggest one I miss outside of he headline Reddit ones
r/fountain pens and the sheer volume of cat subs will be missed the most from me. Hopefully lemmy will grow to the point where troubleshooting help becomes as easy as it was on Reddit because, as many have said before me, google sucks nowadays.
I want my okbuddybaka back 😩
LinkedinLunatics, IAmTheMainCharacter for time wasting
Jobs, UKJobs for job search
Recrutinghell to know I'm not the only one in the hellhole
Soccer (activities are non existent here), BoxOffice, Entertainment, etc. for fun
I miss /r/accidentalwesanderson
Ooo, that was a good one - now I miss it too!
I Also miss r/VXJunkies and r/ThePack
So I decided to be the change and create the community
https://vlemmy.net/c/accidentalwes
Following!
VXJunkies was the best
Hoping ![email protected] becomes more active
Kustom - I had just started messing about with KLWP and building my own background when all this kicked off. There is a Discord but the sub was easier to search and see solutions and formulas.
AreTheStraightsOk and AreTheCisOk
r/tekken is sorely missed. Same applies for r/starcraft. I guess there is a com for StarCraft, but it seems quite dead.
I'm going to do my best to get /r/AcademicBiblical over in some fashion.
/r/credibledefense /r/zizek
Specific game subs like /r/victoria3 or /r/slaythespire
Those video subs that show crazy stuff
/r/terrifyingasfuck /r/crazyfuckingvideos /r/fightporn etc
If anyone knows a lemmy/kbin community that's similar I'd appreciate a share
Bestofredditorupdates
Soccer
Noncredibledefense
I liked to browse /r/cd_collectors and /r/fragrance
I liked seeing /r/witchesVSpatriarchy on /r/All, but I never really followed them.
Edit: spelling.
I wish ![email protected] was move active like r/ebikes was
I always enjoyed helping folks on r/englishlearning . As a language nerd and native speaker its a fun excerise, and it helps people too.
r/rollerskating Also the many subreddits for the many shows I watch like The Walking Dead, Mayans, Black Mirror, etc.
Yes!! show-related ones like r/AtlantaTV for me. and I gotta mention r/NetflixBestOf
I was thinking about creating some of these communities but I don’t want to mod. So I’ll just wait lol.
r/whenthe one of the funniest subs on Reddit imo
I never understood it. What am I missing?
To me the humor comes from either the absurdity of the caption or the gif matches the caption really well.
Tip of my tongue.
There is a LosAngeles community on here, but I'm really hoping there is a daily thread. /r/LosAngeles has a daily thread that, at its height, would have several hundred comments a day. It was a huge source of respite during the pandemic for myself and many others
r/blankies and r/AubreyMaturin, please. Also a Montana community would be welcome.
Unrealengine and game dev in general.
r/trains
r/tropicalweather
r/IdiotsInCars
And many more..
humor
r/yokaiwatch and r/identityv. I miss them.
There are several spider communities set up on lemmy already, but I’d love to see them take off. Everybody tell your tarantula/spider-loving friends!
r/spacexmasterrace
/c/[email protected]
Im still not clear on how you make a useful internal link to a sublemmy
![email protected]
[email protected] - lemmy_server needs help! Rust programmers, PostgreSQL!
AreTheStraightsOk and AreTheCisOk
Cringe Anarchy, Frenworld, Clownworld, Consume Product, Coomer