Your favorite movie, series, or anything else really that you can’t find a community here (or maybe it just doesn’t exist)
I’ll just be honest, from my perspective on lemmy everything outside of porn, linux and shitposts is lacking. Interaction outside the top of hot is a wasteland of non-existence, questions go undiscovered, comments are never read. We could all be more generous with upvotes to improve visibility.
For me sfw art communities, sports, and life protips would all be nice to see grow. I miss the old photoshopbattles too, but I think that’s just fallen out of style in general.
The porn is definitely lacking. Or so I am told. By a random person who knows a friend of mine.
It’s one of the disadvantages of not having algorithms to push content up or down.
No, it’s a question of volume. Before reddit turned to shit, it used to work the same way, but niche communities could still thrive because there were enough people. Lemmy will be able to hold more communities as more people join
Research paper reading groups.
Is this like a book club but for research papers?
yup!
Sounds like a good way to gain higher level reading literacy
You’re welcome to post about papers and discuss them over in !general@lemmy.world to try to get this going for more specific communities!
Like in general or regarding specific topics?
Initially in general, but if there was enough interest breaking into specific topics would be nice to
What’s your domain?
Math, electronics, algorithms, and chemistry are interesting to me
As a bonus behavioral economics
Algorithms sound interesting to me from a research paper perspective. Im a little intimated by the others.
Do you know of any other sites that have this? Sounds awesome
AskHistory or something similar.
Hopefully not as a bunch of really good question posts full of mod-deleted answers.
Hopefully, that aspect was awful.
Agreed. At the moment I get most of my history content from following @PugJesus
A history subreddit would be nice to see. It genuinely brings joy to my face to learn some interesting facts about the middle-ages. And overwhelming amount of Lemmy users need reminding of what happened in Cambodia in the late 70s.
I’m not seeing enough Linux content, are there any Linux communities on Lemmy?
Nope, sorry about your luck. Nothing on anime or Star Trek, either.
Basically all the media.
There is (or at least was) a special kind of joy in discovering a new piece of media (movie, TV, book, video game, comic, etc), getting to the end, and hopping over to the relevant subreddit to sort by “top of all time.” Bonus points if you loved the series and would get to essentially relive it all over again through the sub, but even media that you hated or were neutral about could be fun subs to peruse; maybe you would get to revel in seeing something you hated turned into a meme highlighting how stupid it was, or get to feel justified in your negative assessment upon reading an epic rant from another user; maybe instead you’d find hidden details or explanations pointed out by other users that made you reassess the work (“huh, I though that was a stupid plothole but it actually was perfectly explained by that one scene that apparently went over my head”). The ATLA subs especially were treasure troves of tiny details and “holy shit I just noticed on my fifth rewatch” posts that really elevated my opinion (and thereby enjoyment) of a series I was initially kind of “meh” on.
When I think about what it would take to feel like Lemmy had sufficiently replaced Reddit for me, the number one practical answer is for comprehensive news (political, world, cultural, meme, etc… Reddit really did at one point feel like “the front page of the Internet” if there ever was one), and the second is to have the critical mass to be able to ask a question and get a good recommendation for any specific product or service, via regional subs, hobby subs, etc (although thanks to LLMs and corporate astroturfing that may simply be a bygone part of the Internet). But the “fun” answer is to have the critical mass for a wide range of specific fandoms.
Given the absence of specific communities (or active ones so far), if people would like they could start these conversations over in !general@lemmy.world.
I recognize it’s not the same, particularly for getting to those deep dive points you mention with ATLA, but gotta start somewhere, right?
Also I can easily give this go-ahead being one of the mods there. Up to now I’ve hesitated popping into threads like this and pointing people there because I’m not a fan of consolidation, but it’s become apparent some simple meeting area may help to get more niche communities spun off and going.
A lab work group, like that one on Reddit. I cannot remember the name and I sure as hell will not go to that damned site, but it was basically full of graduate students and technicians that shared stories from their labs.
The labrats subreddit was kinda fun. I’m a chemist, but the chemistry subreddit was overwhelmed by people asking for homework advice, showing off bad caffeine tattoos, and getting upset when they couldn’t talk about drugs or explosives.
Bicycle communities
!bicycles@lemmy.ca isn’t super-high volume, but it’s definitely not inactive. It gets a post every other day or so, and there’s discussion on those posts.
I feel like the real problem is where there aren’t enough people to even have a conversation. Once you’ve got people there, then just posting more isn’t that hard.
Micromobility is pretty active if you’re interested in product coverage and news. As for more organic content, it’s pretty infrequent in any of the existing bicycle communities ☹️
I miss weird niche creative silly roleplay reddits like
r/vxjunkies
r/enlightenedbirdmen / r/madmudmen
r/earth999
r/nsfwworldbuilding - mostly bees with boobs
These random communities is something I wish picks up when the lemmyverse grows.
r/WindTunnelZebraBDSM
TL;DR shitpost sub created alongside r/BirthofaSub
Oh, and r/BlackMagicFuckery and r/BlackSmithFuckery
I miss the nonsexual nudes groups from Reddit, Normalnudes and NakedProgress.
Also wish the curly hair group here was active.
It’s ok though, trading off for the smaller community here, it’s still better.
I’ve got one! Obscure textile crafts.
There are knitting/crochet communities of course, but all the super niche ones like ply-split braiding or smocking are too rare to warrant a whole community to themselves. On reddit there was a defunct sub called bistitchual, both for all obscure fibercrafts and for combinations of unrelated fibercrafts in one work. I wish we had it here.
More outdoors stuff. They exist, but not very active. Mountaineering, climbing, camping, overlanding, etc. Love people sharing their adventures and all the gear and tips & tricks discussions.
Yeah, I searched for hiking and backpacking to replace my equivalent subreddits and just crickets everywhere.
While it’s a good idea, things are a little too decentralized right now.
There are lots of communities that are just stealing users from each other.
I’ve no desire to be joined to 17 ‘different’ communities with maybe a few dozen members each and content that is mostly crossposted between those same communities.
Pinball machines and Arcade games. I can’t say I would be the backbone of such a group, but I would enjoy reading the posts from one.
More Star Trek and Linux communities. “I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more [Star Trek and Linux communities]!”
I second the Star Trek community
why have just a community when you can have a whole instance
e: oh jeez, the irony flew right over me
Aquariums. I don’t have one of my own but love to see pictures of other people’s.
r/HobbyDrama
My town. It has an active subreddit but last I checked there were only 2 in the Lemmy community.
Same.
I find it funny how reddit manages to have active communities for towns, even ones in non-english speaking countries.
