Smaller, niche subs. The state/city subs. The specific career subs. The hobby subs.
Game based communities suck pretty much everywhere. But the ones on reddit, you could at least usually count on enough activity to get good info.
The niche boards for problem solving is about the only thing.
The thing I miss most from reddit is the ability to find decently sized communities for extremely niche topics. Lemmy just isn’t big enough to support that. However, I certainly don’t miss it enough to actually go back to using Reddit. There’s other places to go for that (like Discord servers / Matrix spaces).
Exactly. I haven’t seen either a woodworking or sewing project over here since I joined, as one example.
No terrible first attempt at dovetails, no probable not first attempt at macarons, no woman wearing the sweater she just knit from alpaca wool.
And books. If I wanted a new scifi book here, I’d likely get 0-1 responses. There’s no book community here.
My new thing is im trying to gradually reduce my topic specific questions in catchall Ask comms like this and instead submitting to the actual community that concerns it
Itll be slow but hopefully that can meaningfully shift my own stuff to help beef up the existing topical comms, if everyone does something similar we may actually get somewhere.
Sometimes im just gonna post here cuz its easier and people sort of know my deal already but i do intend to try to put things where they belong in hopes of making Lemmy more like that in terms of stronger non-centralized topical comms that are more likely to have domain-experts or at least more knowledgeable than is likely to be found in general purpose Asks
Not really. A lot of it felt fake before AI content came along.
/r/gameI’mcurrentlyplaying and /r/showI’mcurrentlywatching
I still lurk occasionally, but I maintain a strict look-but-do-not-touch policy with Reddit now. Never posting there again.
I’ve gone back to reddit for medical stuff, there just isn’t anywhere here for me to ask advice specific for Ehlers Danlos exercise adaptations, for example. I’d just get a bunch of generalized advice that’d be more harmful than helpful.
I miss a lot of Reddit content, especially local and niche content. However, what I really miss is a proper app with which to consume said content.
I love that you can binge a TV show from 5-10 years ago and then go to Reddit and see all of the post episode discussions. The next time I watch a trashy reality TV show, I will miss not having Reddit post episode analysis. When I’ve looked in the past, the best I could find on Lemmy was someone posting nudes of contestants from past seasons. The makeup and skincare subreddits were super informative. IDK if they’re still good since I’ve been mostly Reddit free lately.
r/asksciencefiction brought up a lot of great ideas and interesting arguments.
One of my favorites was ‘what if the Addams Family had discovered baby Kal-El?’
There was a whole constellation of fiction-related communities that flew below the largest ones (r/books, television, etc). Those large “front-pagers” often ended up acting as a filter, so places like r/asksciencefiction and r/characterrant could have decent discussion.
You can’t find any of that here, let alone communities dedicated to specific fictional series or settings.
Yes. I miss lifting/fitness content
Yes and no. I miss some of the more niche communities and some subreddits that had great sources of information.
But I don’t miss the other 90%.
I miss the ol’ reddit switcheroo and also I miss the “you’re thinking of Y. X is when (something X is definitely not)”
Some sizeable language learning communities. Unless I’ve been living under a rock and some c/LearnJapanese or c/tokipona on some Lemmy instance absolutely took off
I also miss some gaming communities, but those being connected to some commercial product I can get they don’t do well on Lemmy 😅
general agreeableness and niche interests. i feel like before the exodus there was more people willing to receive ideas and humanize others there than here now. it feels a lot more despairing to share my ideas and the indomitable human spirit here. (196 is much better here on that front but just 196 is nowhere near enough…)
(if you’re going to check my profile for what i mean…)
i somehow find this much more manageable on mbin! which i’ve only recently started revisiting. go check out my comments on @[email protected] instead.
it might be hard to find. a (not-so-perfect) example could perhaps be https://lemmy.world/post/53341912 . i know there would be better examples but i’d rather not revisit things that bring me sadness for too long. maybe check out that account’s downvotes from lemvotes
people asking the right questions in this sub and the right questions in AskLemmy lol. at least all of the questions are a lot better here!
