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[–] krnpnk@feddit.de 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Many communities exist, but mostly on paper.

What I haven't found yet is something substantial and informative like /r/askhistorians.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be the change you want to see. I noticed that every time I post even a small thing on those empty communities, people come and contribute.

It’s mostly an empty dancefloor issue, nobody wants to be the first

The other day I linked an interesting perspective on AI on !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world , hopefully those kind of exchanges happen more and more

[–] Hoxton@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, you’ve encouraged me to make a comment! And given me a great community to watch Lemmy grow!

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Transphobia free content is what I miss most. Ever since the reddit influx, there's been a huge rise in transphobia

[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've removed one of the responses to this comment due to rule #2. It's a fine line and I'm choosing to err on the side of caution and supportiveness.

[–] mrmanager 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's not so strange is it? It's not like most people feel comfortable around trans people. It took a very long time before even black people were treated normally.

I don't actually like the term phobia either. People are not "irrationally afraid" . They just prefer hanging out with people they are used to.

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 31 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Someone recently killed another person because they thought they were trans (they weren't) I would definitely call that irrationally afraid. Maaaaybe you could put it up as an extreme case but shit like that does happen. Trans people are afraid for their lives my dude.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mrmanager 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No idea what you even mean with that. Did you expect a response with "oh that's strange, I'm sure everyone is really comfortable around trans people these days".

They just aren't.

I think instead of being hostile against people who admit they are not comfortable, maybe try to help and be a friend instead so people can start to understand that there is nothing to fear?

Trans people started one of the first mastadon instances and one of the first Lemmy instances as well. I think that's really cool, and I don't get why you would drop a oneliner with some kind of witty response when you can actually communicate with people here.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

Hah, I love it.

It's natural that you're hostile to me, because you're uncomfortable, but me, I need to suck it up and be friends with you, despite you making me uncomfortable, because as the person you're "uncomfortable" with, the responsibility is all mine. You just sit there awaiting passive education, and feel guilt free dishing out your "discomfort" until then.

When I said I miss the transphobia free days of lemmy, that's what I was talking about. Because this conversation we're having right now wasn't a thing even a few months ago.

Trans people started one of the first [...] Lemmy instances as well.

Yes, I'm one of those trans people...

[–] z500@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't actually like the term phobia either. People are not "irrationally afraid" . They just prefer hanging out with people they are used to.

Weird how nobody ever gets this up in arms over terms like hydrophobic πŸ€”

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Individual game subs. Even a niche game usually had just enough of an active community that I could talk about it get help with pretty much anything.

The generic "Gaming" and "PC gaming" and even "BoardGames" crowd is here; but they're mostly good for general news, not discussion of specific games. If I want discussion about lore in Baldi's Basics, for example, I ain't getting it in the general communities.

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[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Communities for people with rare disorders or illnesses. And plant communities for specific plant groups, so not plants in general. But most of all, i miss the fact that i could search for very specific content to see what creative ideas other people had on how to do certain things. Or people who shared many years of experience and experimenting.

[–] Candid_Technology_66@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/WritingPrompts. The !writingprompts@lemmy.ml community here only has a few posts.

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I think in general we just need more people.. There are communities that exist in Lemmy which are basically empty / inactive that used to be active in Reddit (i.e. Datatabases, Postgresql, FreeBSD subreddits). Perhaps as more people discover Lemmy those smaller / niche communities will see more traffic.

[–] cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Certain informative, niche communities like /r/neovim, /r/prequelmemes, and er, um /r/sex. I know there are comparable communities here, but the volume is missing. OTOH, everyone is much friendlier here. And, a smaller user base means our comments don't get buried among thousands. Also, I'm really enjoying new-to-me communities /c/risa.

[–] GunnarStahlGloveSide@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I miss having large and active subreddits for the sports teams I follow. They were my primary source of news for the teams and games at threads were great.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I hope https://fanaticus.social/ can get more popular

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[–] PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I miss communities that I can ask a question to. When I have a problem with a plant, or a legal issue in Japan, or a question about bike brakes... It's nice to have someone to talk to about it that knows more than I do.

Centralized tv show discussions with episode discussion threads. That hasn’t happened yet :/

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tears of the kingdom content. Gimme those ridiculous builds

Some incredible stuff, and I’m sure the madlads in hyruleengineering have pushed the limits over the last few months…. But two fans and a steering stick are all it really takes.

[–] FishSoupy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Communities for specific consoles, like r/PS3, r/3DS, r/Vita, very helpful for keeping up to date with new plugins and stuff

The ones here either don’t exist, or do but isn’t active at all

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I mostly miss my niche subreddits. If the subreddit only has 20-30 active users, that means 1-2 people hopped to Lemmy who might be interested in it.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I miss the idea of /r/outside. A kind of role play in a fun , not too abstract context.

[–] sol@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of country- or city-specific subreddits either aren't on here or are quite inactive. To be honest they were mostly cesspits on Reddit so maybe it's no bad thing but you occasionally found useful information there.

Other than that, there were a few subreddits that were good for recipe ideas, like /r/EatCheapAndHealthy. /r/ZeroWaste was good too, on occasion.

In general, non-tech related communities don't seem to have migrated over as much. Most of the subreddits I followed were related to technology in some way and now have pretty active communities on Lemmy.

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[–] golli@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Doesn't seem like there are many economy/financial/stock focused communities here yet

[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You wanna start it? I’ll help you gather content for it and all…that was the only meme sub I ever liked. It spoke to the inner fifth dimensional Accordian Man inside me.

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[–] cheezoid2@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t miss the exact opposite of a question being posted about five minutes after the preceding post

[–] Cheerstothe90s@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yet you answered the opposite of the question being posted... Not sure what to believe

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sad, basically abandoned subs for tv shows that I never got around to until after they were canceled (shout out to Hello Tomorrow).

Some of the more niche support communities for various reasons, the ones that really only had a dozen or so regs. I hope they’ve found something equivalent to do on the toilet at work.

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[–] BembelSommelier@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Terms of subreddits I haven't found bikinibottomtwitter yet, can't even tell if it exists because the search is broken on every android client and the desktop version too.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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: !bikinibottomtwitter@lemmy.world

[–] nix@merv.news 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Legaladvice, askdocs, hiphopheads, and all the covid care communities like masks4all, crboxes, longcovid subreddit

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[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I miss r/conspiracy. The more crazy and outlandish the conspiracy, the more they believed it was real. Interesting people watching but also entertaining to mess with.

Edit: I think they had a convention. The mere existence I found amusing.

Edit2: Shit like:

"We should create the Tax Riot Party, and not pay taxes, and then when they come after us for not paying taxes, we sue the government on the basis of immorality, and then demand direct democracy where we get to allocate our tax dollars into the government programs that we see fit."

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just move to the south. I dropped some stuff at the dump and the dumpmaster was talking at me about how 9/11 was actually holograms and his uncles friend worked for Linden Johnson, so he knows all about the secret alien projects and that we went to war in the middle east to locate a stolen rage/zombie virus that Russia developed and lost.

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[–] AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure if it's content or just functionality. I really would like lemmy to be more Google-able than it currently is as I still don't have a replacement for " reddit" like I did with, well, Reddit.

Also, something that will probably take a lot longer is generating content for older/dead topics. For example, my wife and I are watching The Sopranos for the first time, and I used to love being able to search for old discussion threads on each episode. Since Lemmy is much newer, discussions about these kinds of things may never happen at all unless I create a thread, and even if I do, it's unlikely that it'll see much discussion as it's no longer relevant or interesting, especially as you get into more niche interests and topics.

[–] Raisin8659@monyet.cc 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't watch youtube. My inline video contents mostly come from R... Vow, I miss those; they have some really interesting videos I keep forwarding to people.

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[–] Ew0@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

/r/2007scape, /r/asoiaf, /r/berserk, /r/fibromyalgia, also my big unix multireddit!

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[–] SpezHater69@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gore, I got downvoted a lot here when I mentioned it

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[–] Sir_Kevin@discuss.online 6 points 1 year ago

Virtual Reality and related subs are pretty small/nonexistent here still.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/sweden r/swedishproxlems r/koroa r/livinginkorea r/twoxchromosomes

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I miss the bonsai sub and maybe the gunpla one too. I'm sure there's others, but those two were a big part of my enjoying the other site.

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