Most of them exist for the most part. The problem is they’ll only have like 20 people.
Or 85 posts a day by 3 different bots with one and only one commenter.
r/buyitforlife is a treasure
It was a treasure until the people pushing their new product started posting.
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I miss the local communities. I like to keep up with what’s going on in my city and surrounding area. I refuse to install Meta apps on my phone, so I can’t view the city Facebook groups and Nextdoor is a pile of garbage.
Frost was a very good foss FB client until recently when it broke:/
r/liberalgunowners
I just want to chat and joke, discuss laws and politics, see cool new builds and gunsmithing ideas, without the fucking right-wing toxic soup.
The kindness/sanity vs. # of subscribers was astonishing. Everyone was super nice for such a large sub.
Also, where else you going to see trans folks sporting their latest gear? 😆
NGL I miss it too
I’m personally a huge supporter of Pigs for Porkchops, a group where all the pigs can get together and express their love for eating porkchops
More of the animal humor ones. I mean other than some niche communities. Animalsbeingdicks, teefies, silly stuff like that. It’d be a nice eyebleach between all the news articles about war and politics.
Man, I miss r/cronch
We currently have everything that I really wanted coming over. Unfortunately there’s niche stuff here but there’s no one home. I was helping, trying to post in a few of them on a regular basis but there were just crickets
At first I was against the bot onslaught*, but it’s actually kind of nice being able to get my news here.
Honestly even at the levels where we’re at now I think everything is just fine I don’t need Lemmy to feed my doom scrolling and take up massive amounts of time in my day. I’ve become much more productive in all areas since leaving Reddit.
I was helping trying to post in a few of them on a regular basis but there were just crickets
Man, I feel you
Datahoarder and buyitforlife
There are many that I miss.
r/fanfiction on Reddit is a great community and I had only positive interactions with people. With 350k-400k users and there is a lot of discussions and positive interactions. On Lemmy it’s very baren.
A lot of fandom specific subreddits which are very active have no Lemmy equivalent.
I haven’t logged in to Reddit since the whole API scandal, but I miss it a lot.
If you ever find or start an r/fanfiction alternative I will post stuff there so just lmk
There is [email protected] but the culture is very different from r/fanfiction.
There is [email protected] which has the same rules as the subreddit, but is even less active than the first options.
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/r/framework
It’s the only thing I specifically seek out on Reddit.
It exists but it doesn’t have the activity/content.
It’s last post was 5 hours ago before that the was an another post 3 days ago and the content is pretty much the same as the main reddit framework sub
in my opinion
FountainPens just one of my smaller less popular hobbies. That and EDC. We do have at least an EDC channel here but it’s now near as big.
Gosh I didn’t realize that I miss that.
I used to use [email protected] but unfortunately they shut down a few days ago.
I’d love to see smaller game devs have a federated presence with their content.
Right now, I only use Reddit to keep up with game devs who only post game content and updates on their own subreddit.
An emulation subreddit dedicated to talking about various different video games emulators and emulation itself.i might consider creating lemmy. World emulation subreddit but only if enough people are on board
I’ll join.
Alright I’m going look into creating the sub when I have the time I’ve got the description already written out
I’m looking forward to it. Message me when you got something up.
Ight will do
A community for every video game. It was really nice to start playing a 10-20 year old game and still find a very active community to engage with.
I’d love a sublemmy about Rollercoaster Tycoon
community*
r/soccer.
I just want my goal highlights without ads.
Why try and copy reddit? Just let lemmy grow organically.
Whether you like the company behind it or not, a lot of fantastic niche communities found a home there, and it would be wonderful if they could find a home here too, as this platform is basically identical to Reddit with just a few tweaks and improvements.
It took them years to get to that point though, why wait for it to organically happen when we already know it’ll be successful and awesome? :-D
Not talking about you specifically, I see a lot of people that want to replace/kill Reddit and make Lemmy the next big thing, and often those same people will also not want Lemmy to copy Reddit. I find that weird, given that Reddit has been hugely successful and beloved by do many communities, so we know it works, and Lemmy is an almost identical platform, so we know the transfer/“copy” would be very successful.
I think I somewhat agree but I also have 2 objections:
I don’t think people want a 1:1 clone of Reddit. We say that oftentimes. But there has to be some reason why you’re here and not over there… Like… You can have something that is 100% like Reddit, and that is Reddit itself. You can use it. But that’s obviously not the whole story there… What differences we all wish for is kind of individual. I’d like to see several improvements while we’re at it.
And I think it’s easier said than done. We still have some moderation tools missing, UI bugs, hacking and DDoSing happen when we were growing rapidly. And like more than a thousand open issues on Github. And artificial growth can have problematic consequences. Just dumping copied content here could kill engagement. Lots of people don’t like too much bot activity without meaningful user interaction. Or we could attract mainly the toxic people that got banned on other platforms for good reasons and are looking for a new place. We’d get the more toxic little sibling of Reddit and no-one wants to ask for relationship advice if it’s mostly trolls and shitposters replying to you.
I don’t see a good way for ‘artificial’ growth. But I like to hear other people’s opinions on that.
And I liked Reddit for enabling me to talk to people all around the world and have a place to discuss niche interests. You can really tell we only got like 40000 active users here (if the statistics are right) once you start asking for advice on a niche hobby. Nonetheless I really like it here. I think we need to have some patience but we also need to do the right things (right now) to succeed.
One of the biggest things that has hurt Lemmy was all the idiots quickly making every community that ever existed on reddit, and then just expecting people to show up and do all the work while they got to be top mod.
I feel like OP is just fishing for that now. They can’t think of any that still dont exist and will create anything some one recommends.
Considering they made a post on lemmt asking about how to buy a reddit account, it’s hard to say they’re not dumb enough to do that.
Saying this is just lazy. There’s a lot of valid responses in this thread.
Lemmy could use more communities dedicated to specific games, TV series or other pieces of content.
Hahaha
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Stormfront? Do you have objections to a subreddit that has media of cloud formations?
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The only people who could promote “moderate politics” is a conservative nut
I’m perfectly aware of Stormfront in the broader context. But if we’re speaking of Reddit, someone beat the Nazis to the punch and reserved r/Stormfront for more benign content. Maybe do your research?
As for why I am a moderator on [email protected], it’s more of a caretaker position at the moment. I would much rather it go to a woman who is well versed in feminist thought. Moderate politics is an outpost of r/moderatepolitics, where I’m on the moderation team.
I imagine this is more of a “what do you wish existed here” not a “we should immediately make these instances so that they sit in the dark with 3 subscribers until the site grows more”
It’s not growing though lol. It had a decent amount of people come over but this still doesn’t have enough posts to keep me coming back.
