I’ll go first. I wish Lemmy communities existed for: destroyed tanks. Ukraine War video report. sopranos duckposting. benzodiazepines.
I will comment more as I think of them.
Honestly I wish there were less communities. I’ve said this before, but people treat Lemmy like late-stage Reddit, expecting niche communities for everything, and we end up with hundreds of communities with no (or one, if we’re lucky) active members.
This problem is then amplified by the fact that these niche communities are split even further across several instances, so our userbase ends up completely dissipated.
I would love to see users focus on a smaller number of more general-purpose communities. Of course, these should still be shared across instances, but I think we would benefit a lot from having, say, a “video games” community instead of 500 specific game communities.
As a side note as well, I don’t think we shouldn’t be “allowed” to create more niche communities (though if an instance admin wanted to regulate, that’s their call). I think this should be more of a user culture shift, if anything.
This is a good point. Reddit originally had no communities. Then there were maybe a dozen, all picked by the admins… and already /r/Atheism was one of them, because that’s how the userbase went. People who don’t understand why such a community was necessary do not remember living through 90s / 00s American culture.
I just want the communities that already exist to have more engagement. It’s pretty demoralizing making a high-effort post and getting only a handful of upvotes and no comments. And it’s like watching a hospice patient visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).
I think one of the best ways for folks to contribute to the health of Lemmy would be for everyone to spend some time on “all - new” (or even “all - top hour”) on occasion. “New” on Lemmy is not the cesspool of reposts and garbage that it was on Reddit (although there is a LOT of porn if you don’t have NSFW toggled off), and the quality of the first few pages of “top hour” is usually pretty good (except again for the porn, which it turns out gets pretty decent engagement). I visit “top hour” pretty regularly, and nearly all posts that are stuck in zero-engagement/minimal-engagement pergatory are simply niche content rather than bad content.
We added the scaled sort to help with that(it gives a boost to less active communities), but I don’t know if many people are using it.
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visiting a neat-sounding community and realizing all the posts are by the single moderator (and are getting less and less frequent).
This will be a key moment towards Lemmy’s growth or decline. Especially in non-tech/meme/politics communities, it’s so easy for the only poster be a single person who is posting daily, and who then simply runs out of content. Maybe the solution is for each frequent poster to post non-daily on several different communities. Anyway, check out [email protected], @[email protected] has started posting a weekly thread on “How is your niche community doing?”
I’ll check it out, thanks!
I miss the “Tales from…” subs. Tales from tech support was regular reading material for me for many years, and in general just having a place to commiserate with others in the same field as you is wonderful. The other ones also helped me be more concious of what I could do to keep myself from being a nuisance to other professionals like my doctor and pharmacist.
More niche, I miss the gunpla sub a lot. We have subs for model making and tabletop miniatures, but the gunpla community was very well run.
In general, I think the lack of moderation tools has made it difficult for communities to do regular “event” posts and the like which used to really help keep subs alive, guide discussions, and gave good examples of the type of content that fit. Like it’s a lot easier to start a new conversation at a party where everyone is talking than to be the first person to speak up in a silent room.
We’re definitely smaller than the Reddit gunpla sub, but I’m really enjoying the gunpla community on lemmy. Everyone’s chummy and welcoming. I’d love to see any you’ve built!
Once again here to say I’m surprised Lemmy has no equivalent to KarmaCourt.
I miss the non-porn nudes threads, Normalnudes and NakedProgress, the ones with an “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything” policy where people of all body types could show their shape and/or their fitness progress.
More UK/Europe based communities
Americans shoehorning (their own) politics and religion in every single comment thread is so unbelievably boring
does that happen a lot here or are you venting about the other platform?
more music related subs, like bluegrass, old time, etc. and active users to go in them.
I wish lemmy communties existed for:
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- How are you doing today?
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- Did you discover anything new to your consciousnesses today?
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- I fucke’ed today. Here is how.
Edit: yeah, I think I miss a few of the old subreddit’s. Even if there is an equivalent in lemmy, such communities are quite silent.
Hey hey hey there is a TIFU community already.
It totally needs more engagement though
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Tits sub
Ass sub
Resident evil sub
Lonely sub
/Factorio
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Duck posting? Benzodiazepines?
Wat
benzodiazepines
drug addict echo chamber subreddit
people like you like to pretend that Lemmy is so much better than Reddit, then you just walk around spewing hate about people you don’t know. why are you here? you’d be much more at home on Reddit with that attitude
I just stated my view on a subreddit. Was I incorrect? Don’t take it so personally
you just called me and my friends drug addicts and I’m not supposed to take it personally? I recently started having benzos prescribed for panic attacks, and it’s been a great resource for learning about my medication. then I have to sit here and listen to you shame me for talking to people about my psychiatric meds? Go sit on a wire brush.
I don’t believe for half a second that you don’t understand why it was taken personally, which means not only are you walking around insulting people for no apparent reason, you’re also playing dumb. I don’t fuck with either of those so I’m done talking with you.
A big benefit of the fediverse is that it’s still so small that it’s pretty easy to just block the assholes without a constant sea of new ones coming in to take their place.
Whoever the asshole you’re replying to is, I already have them blocked.
Literally scroll the front page of r/benzodiazepines
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Ever venture over to crippling alcoholism? Loved that sub around 8-10 years ago
No? I like beer, but being intoxicated is not pleasurable to me.
I’d create them if it wasn’t so difficult to host my own Lemmy instance
An active box office community. I don’t really watch movies but I enjoy the data and the discussions about why movies are performing that way. @[email protected] tried to singlehandedly keep it afloat for some time, but it didn’t work unfortunately.
I imagine it’s like sports statistics but with a lower barrier of entry, and sometimes you watch a film franchise you enjoyed die in real time.
A 90dayfiance community. Also a local community that posted more than once a week.
