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[–] NickwithaC 128 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's not so much the communities as the number of posts, I open Lemmy and see posts I saw yesterday only half way down the front page.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (12 children)

yeah, that's something that is getting slightly better over time if you sub to more instances outside.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Subscribe to more communities. I have like 50 of them from many different instances and it's always new content. Make sure to set filter to Last Day or Last 6 hours.

Lemmy.world is the largest instance now I believe with tons of communities so start there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Honestly, this was helped simply by subbing to a lot of different communities. Each day is a fresh feed. It’s not up to Reddit’s β€œevery single refresh is a brand new front page” level, but it’s enough to be able to scroll for an hour or two each day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can find Communities from instances all over the Lemmyverse at https://browse.feddit.de

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Communities for specific video games, like /r/wow or /r/ffxiv

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[–] hactar42 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss the local subs for my city and other local communities around me. They were great for keeping up with what was going on. I can't stand all the pissing and moaning on Nextdoor. There are a couple of Facebook groups but I refuse to install any Meta apps on my phone.

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[–] benwubbleyou 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Right now I am missing the hyper specific cat subreddits like catswhoyell and catsinbusinessattire. There are so many that I loved to revisit every 2-3 months and see what was there

[–] TheNightBird 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me it’s just the smaller gaming ones that aren’t as active or not here, I enjoyed browsing through specific WoW (this isn’t so active), ESO or Diablo subs.

My home page is already in fairly nice shape with β€œgeneral” interests

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[–] arditty 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I miss the niche trade subs, like r/electricians, r/construction, and r/machinists. Tons of great content on their subs that just isn’t here on Lemmy since most people on those subs don’t skew as techy as most Lemmy users.

Still not worth supporting Reddit though.

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[–] wintermute_1138 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.

For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.

Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.

The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.

I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was about to say I'd like to see something similar to Ask Science Fiction, but with more easy-going mods. It's fine for the sub to focus on the in-universe perspective while still allowing an out-of-universe comments where they enhance the discussion.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Not missing the subreddit itself, but /r/tvtoohigh is a great symbol for how even the most obscure niche subreddits had a steady flow of content.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Best of Redditor Updates 😭

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[–] Drewdp 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trade communities like construction, electricians (my trade), and oshaviolations.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Daddit. It was such a wholesome and helpful community

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The art subs, like r/art, graphic design, art nouveau, and all the AI art subs. I was mostly a lurker on those ones but they were really great eye candy.

Also things like earth porn and the nature subs. Was nice to see cool places in my feed.

And the local community subs. I think that will take a long time to develop (if it ever does). I used to get a lot of news on city events from Reddit and without Boost on my phone I'm feeling out of the loop

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I miss all my fun niche subs. Like mirror forsale, were it's just funny pics of people who sell mirrors or take pics in front of mirrors.

Purple coco, sub for plugs in strange places.

Chairsinwater, its chairs in water and the flair was always NSFW.

There more but those are the top ones I miss.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Battlestations exists, but has no content. I just made the first post in order to help stir up some engagement! πŸ˜ƒ

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Writingprrompts. Such excellent quality content there.

[–] DrMango 13 points 1 year ago

The subresdit /r/frugalmalefashion was really incredie for a while there, but it thrived in users posting good deals regularly and fair moderators keeping out inappropriate content (i.e. scams, predatory subscription services, and comments like "this isn't truly frugal!"). /r/buildapcsales was the same way

[–] zcbny 12 points 1 year ago

I miss aita - I'm not sure if there's a similar one on here

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The subs for games like Street Fighter, the sub for fight sticks, the kind of semi-niche gaming communities that snowballed because of Reddit's ubiquity

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

AskHistorians

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of craft subs, r/embroidery, r/weaving, r/pottery etc. Also r/twosentencehorror.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

*pops up like Obi-Wan*

Hello there!

I have just the list for you: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/289893

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

r/NFL, r/CFB, and r/Hockey. They all kinda exist here but are nowhere active enough.. I miss game threads with thousands of comments.

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[–] Bald_Guy 10 points 1 year ago

I miss r/badtaxidermy It's my weird joy in life to see terrible taxidermied animals.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

MaybeMaybeMaybe, OddlySatisfying, ThatPeelingFeeling, CrabCats

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
  1. Personal finance, the EU version of it and the German version of it
  2. Women centric communities
[–] Braysl 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A bunch of morbid and medical subs like morbid curiosity, medizzy, medicalgore, thegrittypast. I always have found those subs super interesting and filled with discussion about stuff I don't usually encounter in my day to day life so I've been missing that.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

r/korea, r/TwoXChromosomes

[–] S_204 8 points 1 year ago

My hometown..... great community on Reddit. Pretty much zilch over here so far.

[–] ChamrsDeluxe 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Prequelmemes, renfaire, antiwork, bikinibottomtwitter, raimimemes, insanepeoplefacebook, oldpeoplefacebook, Disneyvacation/notdisneyvacation, earthporn, novontextpics, marvelstudios.

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[–] Lazylazycat 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My local city's subreddit. Someone's made one but no one is posting. It was the main way I found out what was going on.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There's a Pokemon Go subreddit called TheSilphRoad that was basically the place for in depth discussion on the game. Such subs here have been quiet and shallow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

r/noncredibledefense. There are a few inactive Lemmy instances of it and the Discord server is cool, but they both pale in comparison to the subreddit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The dry-herb vaping communities haven't really transitioned very well, and I'm too lazy to get back into proper community building and moderation after having all my accounts permabanned on reddit. For now I am just sticking to the 420vapezone discord.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I miss the data analysis subs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Linguistic humor. I know it exists in the lemmyverse but it's not active

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