I miss being able to hop into a forum for pretty much any individual game outside of the lousy Steam forums. Even the soulslike fans are a pretty small group here. And I tend toward fairly niche or complicated games with rather small player bases as it is.
I miss Reddit from two or three years ago. But all my favourite communities were overrun by bots.
“Wow, that’s interesting. Could you tell me more about that?”
Anything good that Reddit ever had was because of people. It’s gone now.
i miss niche hobby and academic subreddits full of thoughtful reasonable people where insane nonsense was not tolerated or it was at least mocked relentlessly.
also circlejerk subs that mocked the big hobby subs where folks just endless posted photos of shit they bought and other people jerked them off on spending $1000s bling.
The amateur porn was way better
Amateur porn is how every site gets big. Tumblr was able to get as big as Reddit by allowing amateur porn and Reddit only managed to keep up by doing the same. The only reason you don’t hear about Tumblr now is because they stepped allowing it and scrubbed all their content. By the time they reversed their decision only two weeks later, everyone had moved over to Reddit, their momentum was lost, and the damage was terminal.
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.
I’ll always miss the vastness of communities on reddit. There’s just something for everyone.
What I’ll never miss is the absurd way things are moderated.
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. You can find an active subreddit for fucking anything. Find a new anime and want to discuss it? There’s an active sub for that. Find a cool bug and want to identify it? There’s an active sub for that. Want to ask a doctor for casual (off-the-record) medical advice? There’s an active sub for that.
But with Lemmy, the first would probably land in a more generic c/Anime, while the latter ones might struggle to find an appropriate community at all. Because even if the specific communities exist, the chances of them being active enough to get a response are low.
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.
People post stuff there from time to time
It seems trendy lately to brag about how little one reads.
You’re kidding. How is that even possible? Conservative AI bots pushing for those uneducated masses? Probably, with 51% bot/AI post populations on social media.
In real life, I see the younger generation carrying physical, paper books around at work. We have them in my house, and the people in my house keep one in their cars for wait times.
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
The niche boards for problem solving is about the only thing.
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.
Not really. A lot of it felt fake before AI content came along.
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 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.
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 😅
